Tag: Percentages

25. From Percentages to Profits: Learning How Discounts Work

WALT – Learn about percentages and discounts and show your thinking and working out. 

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Is it really a bargain ? Sometimes shops can trick us into thinking that items are a bargain  when they may not be. For example, do they think we might not buy a $9.99 book if the sticker said $10? There hardly seems to be a day  that goes by without shops offering items at discount prices. The discounts are often shown as a percentage. 

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Zdravstvuyte everyone, 

As you can see from the first paragraphs of this blog that I’m going to explain a  bit about percentages and discounts. First things first percentages are included in discounts which show how much percentage the item or thing goes  for  then the original price.

What are  discounts and percentages ? 

Discounts are a reduction of the original price of the product or item. 

Percentages in supermarket meaning means that if it was up to 20% off meaning that 20% off the original price is the new price. 

What is a discount in supermarkets ? 

If you have ever gone to a supermarket you see price tags with a number and a percentage like this 50%. This means that the price has been lowered down and that if you buy the item then you could save a lot of money or some money. Some people fall into this trap it could either be a good bargain or a bad bargain. 

What we learnt around percentages and discounts !! 

We had to work from our year 8 textbooks and they  gave us some easy questions to do so we are able to get the hang of it. Some eof the questions we got asked were like 👇

If a book advertised at $9.99 and the discount is 50% or 10%,  we don’t need a calculator to work out the new price. Work out the new price of the book with  each of the discounts below. Round the new price to a sensible amount. Then in our math books we would round the new prices to the amount we think would be the sensible amount.

They would provide the percentages and we would have to work out the answer to the percentages and create the new price. Doing this activity was  hard but let me understand the working of discounts and percentages.

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Nga Mihi – Sala

Fractions, Decimals & Percentages

Assalamualaikum Everyone,

This week for maths we have been learning about percentage fractions and decimals. We are continuing from last week’s work because we still need to learn some more about fractions decimals and percentages. We needed to convert decimals into fractions or fractions into decimals or fractions into decimals or fractions into percentages. It was a bit hard when you first try to understand it but when you constantly keep on doing it you are able to get the hang of it and then it becomes a piece of pie. And the name of changing percentages into fractions or the other different ways we call it convert or converting. I have created a DLO for you guys to take a look at what we have done and how we did it.

Math DLO 

As you are able to see those were our main focus this week it was hard but overtime it started to warm up and it felt good to know that we are able to convert these easily.

Thank you for reading my blog I hope you have a good rest of your day / week and remember to spread the gospel ✝.

Nga Mihi – Sala 😁

Compound Interest Math T4 .24

Namaste  Everyone,

For math this week we have been learning about compound interest and savers and spenders also percentages. So we discussed the wants and the needs and we have to explain which we think we are out of the spenders and savers. I think I am a spender because when my parents give me money I spend it on chocolate and candy and spend it all in one second. So firstly we had to do some budgeting and economics which I have already blogged about. And then we had to work in a book that used Compound Interest and something that used are you a spender or saver. So to work out compound interest is easy so you have a bit of money in the first year and then say you have 7% interest you have to take how much money you have and then times x it by the percent so if I had 100 then I had to x times them by he 7% and then you do not press the equals button because it will give you a different number. So I will put my DLO of spender and savers and compound interest down here for you to see. For the interest the percentage was 7 %. I will also put a photo of the percentages that are on  the ASB website.

Thank you for reading my blog I hope you have a good rest of your day and remember to spread the gospel.

Nga Mihi – Sala 🙂