Summary
Math Antics works backward to find the whole when you know a percent and a part. A clear, animated 5-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 “Percents: Missing Total.”
- What are you solving for in these problems?
- How does knowing the percent and the part help find the total?
- Why is this like 'undoing' finding a percent of a number?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: percent, part, whole, total, ratio.
Try it: If 20% of a number is 10, find the whole number.