Summary
Math Antics shows how to find a percent of a number. A clear, animated 8-minute lesson you can drop straight into a grade 6 math block -- pause-friendly, with worked examples on screen.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
A few questions to talk through after watching “Finding a Percent of a Number.”
- How can you turn a percent into a decimal to multiply?
- What does 'of' tell you to do in a percent problem?
- How would you find 25% of 80?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: percent, of, multiply, decimal, fraction.
Try it: Find 20% of 50 and 75% of 40.