Some of you enjoy doing the study sheets that I have provided on the blog. Today I will just put up some links for you that'll give you more practice at changing fractions to decimals and percentages.
Remember that it is important to know the place value columns on the left hand side of a decimal. If you truly understand these it'll help a lot. You also
Must know how to calculate equivalent fractions so they are out of 100 or 10! When you've got that, I believe you've got the rest!
http://superteacherworksheets.com/percents/converting-fractions-decimals-percents_EASIE.pdf
http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol4/fractions_to_percents.html
Here are a couple of place value games online ( bottom of the page).
http://www.free-training-tutorial.com/percentage-games.html- you need Flash for this one. Only bother with the first game.
http://www.free-training-tutorial.com/percentage-games.html - requires Flash
Basically you should be able to take a fraction like 2/5 and convert it to 40/100 and then make the decimal 0.40 and 40%. This is what we have been working on in class all week.
You've got this!
Ms. W
