Percentage Increase and Decrease
A £40 scooter has 25% off in the sale. Fizz the fox finds 25% of £40 (£10) and takes it away to get £30. Then a £60 bike goes up by 10% to £66. Work out a 15% rise on £80 yourself, and learn the shortcut of finding 75% straight away.
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2:15Fractions of an Amount
Momo the monkey shares 12 bananas into 4 baskets and gives 3 baskets to her friends, showing how to find ¾ of 12: divide by the bottom, times by the top. Then help Percy the penguin find ⅖ of 20 fish.
2:00Equivalent Fractions
Pip the panda cuts her bamboo cake into halves, quarters and eighths to show that ½ = 2/4 = 4/8. Learn the trick of multiplying the top and bottom by the same number, find how many twelfths make ¾, and see how simplifying works.
1:43Comparing and Ordering Fractions
Put ½, ⅜ and ¾ in order from smallest to largest. Pip the panda changes every fraction to eighths (4/8, 3/8, 6/8) so they can be compared, using fraction bars to see it. Then order 2/3, 5/6 and 7/12 yourself, and learn the shortcut for fractions with the same numerator.