Numeracy- Percentages (Part-Time: e-Learning)

Course Overview

This lesson will enable you to apply percentages in real live situations including working out the cost of items. You will also be able to evaluate one number as a percentage of another.

Percentages are used widely and in many different areas. For example, discounts in shops, bank interest rates, rates of inflation and many statistics in the media are expressed as percentages. Percentages are important for understanding the financial aspects of everyday life. This lesson starts off by recapping on percentages before expanding into other topics covered including calculating percentages, interest, comparison and percentages and percentage and data sets. These topics will lead the learner to learn how to evaluate one number as a percentage of another. Using knowledge check questions and scenarios throughout the lesson will allow the learner to use their new found knowledge when using percentages in real-life situations such as using percentages to work out the cost of items. The lesson finishes with a short assessment helping learners test their knowledge on what they have just learned.