This activity will help you practice changing decimal numbers to fractions and percents. You will need two sheets of drawing paper, a ruler, a pencil, and crayons.
Using your ruler, create a table on one sheet of drawing paper. You will need a total of 100 boxes, so your table should have 10 columns and 10 rows. After you finish making your table, use your second sheet of drawing paper to convert this decimal number to a fraction and a percent:
.35
Do you remember how? Percent tells about hundredths. We can write any fraction as a percent if it has a denominator (bottom number) of 100. For example, we write 6% as 6 hundredths: . Six hundredths, , can also be written as a decimal: .06. If we reverse and start with a decimal number, the result will still be the same.
Now, do you have your answer already? If you do, here's what you'll do next. Go back to the table you drew earlier. Then color the appropriate number of boxes based on the answer you get from converting .35 to a fraction and a percent: .35 is equal to 35%, or . You will color in 35 squares.
You can create more tables and convert these other decimal numbers to fractions and percents:
.63 .12
.75 .94
.42 .27
Ready to move on to the next lesson?
Decimals as Percents
