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6th Grade Percent Worksheets Explained
Percent expresses a numerical value as a part of the number 100 or a part to whole ratio, where the whole is 100. A sound knowledge of percent is essential in a number of real life situations such as percent score in a test or exam, profit or loss percent in a business deal or a transaction, percent share in a business, and discount percent offered by a store on a commodity or a service.
The grade 6 percent worksheets presents a variety of problems that covers a range of concepts on percent such as:
- Percents and fractions - Students start by understanding the concept of percent and then writing percent as a fraction. The model based interpretation of percent is a useful visual and the sixth grade percent worksheets introduce problems on writing any fraction as a percent using equivalent fractions.
- Percents and decimals - Writing percent as decimals and decimals as a percent is an important skill to solve percent based problems. The 6th grade percent worksheets present an array of such problems that strengthens a student’s understanding of how the decimal point moves when multiplying or dividing by 100.
- Comparing and ordering percent - Comparison and ordering of percent values encourages students to have a sound understanding of the writing percent in fraction or in decimal form. The percent worksheets for grade 6 enable students to compare and order percent, fractions and decimals.
If there is a need to revise specific concepts on percent, go ahead and click on the following links:
- Decimals, Percents and Fractions
- Percents and Fractions
- Ordering and comparing Percents, decimals and fractions
- Solving problems based on Percent
Benefits of 6th Grade Percent Worksheets
The grade 6 percent worksheets are of great assistance to students in forming a strong foundation on the basics as well as advanced concepts of percent. These worksheets are prepared with varied difficulty levels to allow students to first grasp the fundamentals of percent and then move to application based problems on simple interest, discounts and markups.
- Percent Problems-easy
Sixth grade percent worksheets set with an easy difficulty level allow students to start by solving simple and direct questions. Most problems in this worksheet will be based on writing percent as fraction and decimals.
- Percent Problems-medium
These percent worksheets for grade 6 enable students to widen their understanding of the concept of percent. The problem solving here will require multiple methods or arithmetic operations to make students think from all perspectives. The problems here will be of the type - find the whole if the part and percent is given, or compare and order a set of percent values.
- Percent Problems-hard
The harder version of the 6th grade percent worksheet caters to problems requiring multi-step estimation of percent or missing values using the concept of percent. The questions in this worksheet will also revolve around real life scenarios where a student will apply the concept of percent to model the situation in equation form or a ratio table.
Printable PDFs and Interactive Worksheets:
The PDF percent worksheets for 6th grade can be solved offline once they are downloaded from the website. This will give the students ample scope to solve the worksheet problems without any time limit attached. These PDF worksheets are easy to download and work on. The worksheets with an interactive feature for 6th grade students are solved in an online mode on the BYJU’S Math website. These worksheets are timed and will encourage the students to participate in such time bound activities in the future. Students are also able to instantly obtain the solutions for these worksheets in the online mode.