Grade 6 Percents Worksheets
Free printable percents practice for Grade 6 students. Generate problems, solve them on screen or paper, and download as PDF.
Practice Worksheet
Grade 6 Percents Practice
Solve each problem. Show your work.
- 1.What is 10% of 125? _____
- 2.What is 10% of 25? _____
- 3.What is 15% of 200? _____
- 4.What is 15% of 95? _____
- 5.What is 5% of 175? _____
- 6.What is 30% of 190? _____
Show answer key
- Question 1: 12.5
- Question 2: 2.5
- Question 3: 30
- Question 4: 14.25
- Question 5: 8.75
- Question 6: 57
Free Practice Worksheets
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Build confidence with approachable problems
Solve each problem. Take your time.
- 1.Convert the fraction 3/5 into a percent.
- 2.Convert the decimal 0.45 into a percent.
- 3.Find 20% of 80.
- 4.Find 50% of 124.
- 5.Calculate a 10% increase on 60.
- 6.Calculate a 20% discount on 50.
A selection of topic skills
Solve each problem. Show your work.
- 1.Convert the following values to both a fraction (in simplest form) and a decimal: 45%.
- 2.Calculate 35% of 120.
- 3.Compare the two values using <, >, or =: 0.65 and 60%.
- 4.A shirt is priced at 40. It is on sale for 25% off. What is the amount of the discount in dollars?
- 5.A basketball team played 20 games and won 15 of them. What percentage of their games did they win?
- 6.Express the fraction 7/8 as a percentage.
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What Your Child Will Learn
Grade 6 is where percent calculations become a core skill. Students learn systematic methods for finding the percent of a number, both using decimal multiplication (15% of 60 = 0.15 × 60) and using proportional reasoning with equivalent ratios. They also learn to express one quantity as a percent of another.
Percent problems this year are grounded in everyday contexts: sales tax, discounts, tips, and test scores. Students move fluently between percents, fractions, and decimals, choosing whichever representation makes a calculation easiest. This flexible number sense is a major goal of the Grade 6 curriculum and a direct extension of ratio and rate reasoning.
Skills Covered
- Finding the percent of a number using multiplication
- Expressing one quantity as a percent of another
- Converting fluently between percents, fractions, and decimals
- Calculating sales tax, tips, and discounts
- Using proportional reasoning (equivalent ratios) for percent problems
- Solving real-world percent word problems
Curriculum Aligned: Aligned with Strand B (Number): calculating percent of a number and applying percent within proportional reasoning.
Parent Tip: Let your child calculate the tip at a restaurant or the sale price of an item — real percent problems with real stakes stick far better than worksheets alone.
What your child will practice
- Fractions, Decimals, PercentsRepresent and compare fractions, decimal numbers, and percents.
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How do percents relate to fractions and decimals?
Percent means 'per hundred.' So 25% = 25/100 = 0.25. Understanding this three-way connection between percents, fractions, and decimals is fundamental to mastering percentages.
What real-life situations use percents?
Percents are everywhere: sales tax, discounts, tips at restaurants, interest rates, sports statistics, and grades. Using these real-world examples makes learning percents meaningful and practical.
When do students learn percent calculations?
Percent concepts are introduced in Grade 5-6. By Grade 7-8, students should handle percent increase/decrease, and by Grade 9-10 they work with compound interest and financial literacy applications.