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Fractions, Decimals and Percentages: Year 6 maths

This topic covers converting between equivalent fractions, decimals, and percentages. Students practise identifying common benchmarks and applying systematic conversion techniques.

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What this covers

Fractions, Decimals and Percentages is taught in Year 6 (age 11 to 12) as a main teaching focus. It sits in the Fractions strand.

Worked example

Convert 38 into a percentage

  1. Convert fraction to decimal: 38 = 0.375
  2. Multiply decimal by 100 to get percentage: 0.375 x 100
  3. Result: 37.5%

Answer: 37.5%

Difficulty scale

The sheet generator offers five difficulty settings for this topic.

  1. Common benchmarks: halves, quarters, tenths, hundredths
  2. Common conversions with fifths and eighths, e.g. 35, 58
  3. Converting recurring or trickier values, e.g. thirds, sixths, or 2 d.p. decimals
  4. Mixed numbers to improper percentages and decimals greater than 1
  5. Comparing, ordering, and equivalence tables mixing all three forms

Common mistakes

  • Writing a decimal directly as a percentage without multiplying by 100 (e.g. 0.4 = 4%)
  • Treating denominator as percentage directly (e.g. 3/20 = 3%)

Curriculum links

Indicative matches to Australian Curriculum v9. Check wording and codes against the official document.

  • AC9M6N07 Convert between common fractions, decimals, and percentages to compare and order values.

Sample sheet and answers

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Fractions, Decimals and Percentages

Year 6 maths

Qs
6
Marks
12
NameDateScore / 12
1.
Write 35% as a fraction in its simplest form.
[2]
2.
Write 12.5% as a fraction in its simplest form.
[2]
3.
Write 225 as a percentage.
[2]
4.
Write 18 as a percentage.
[2]
5.
Write 12.5% as a fraction in its simplest form.
[2]
6.
Write 18 as a decimal.
[2]

Answer key

  1. 72035% means 35 out of 100; Simplify: 720
  2. 1812.5% means 12.5 out of 100; Simplify: 18
  3. 8%2 ÷ 25 = 0.08, and 0.08 × 100 = 8
  4. 12.5%1 ÷ 8 = 0.125, and 0.125 × 100 = 12.5
  5. 1812.5% means 12.5 out of 100; Simplify: 18
  6. 0.1251 ÷ 8 = 0.125