1. Percentages – Mixed – Calculator – Messenger!
In this competitive activity, one student at a time acts as a messenger for their team of 2 or more students. Without running (!), they relay information about questions
(posted around the room) to their teammates who then answer them.
Students need to record the question letter and the answer so they can mark their work using the answer slide at the end of the activity. With the points system, students can attempt appropriate questions.
You could choose posters/questions to include and delete others.
(Clear plastic wallets around your classroom
make it quick and easy to display posters.)

2. Printing To print handouts from slides -
Select the slide from the left. Then click:
File > Print > ‘Print Current Slide’
To print multiple slides -
Click on a section title to highlight all those slides,
or press ‘Ctrl’ at the same time as selecting slides to
highlight more than one. Then click:
File > Print > ‘Print Selection’

3. Messenger!
Title Slide

4. 10 In teams pick a messenger! It’s their job to collect questions
for the rest of the team to answer.
You can change who is the messenger but
only one person is allowed to stand up at once and
they can’t carry a pen or paper to the question!
Each question is worth a different number of points!
Record the question letter and your
answer on a single piece of paper.
After marking,
the team that scores the most points wins!
Question A 10
Optional rules slide to show the class.

5. 2 2 Question B Question A In a maths test, Annie scored 66 out of 150.
What is this as a percentage?
In a geography test,
Jim scored 78 out of 120.
What is this as a percentage?

6. 2 2 Question D Question C In a science test, Jim scored 54 out of 80.
What is this as a percentage?
In a geography test,
Jim scored 27 out of 120.
What is this as a percentage?

7. 3 3 Question F Question E In her music test Joanne
scored 61 out of 70.
What is this as a percentage?
(1 decimal place)
In a food technology assessment,
Pete scored 67 out of 92.
What is this as a percentage?
(2 decimal places)

8. Question G
Question H 4 5
Which of these is the largest?
Which of these is the smallest?
14%
5 6
1 9
84%
7 60
64%
0.12
7 12
5 24
0.45
19%

9. 5 4 Question J Question I Sam invested £80 for a year.
His investment increased by 45%
How much did he have at the
end of the year?
Wendy invested £246 for a year.
Her investment increased by 23%
How much did she have at the
end of the year?

10. 5 4 Question L Question K Zane invested £70 for a year.
His investment decreased by 30%
How much did he have at the
end of the year?
Zach invested £350 for a year.
Her investment decreased by 17%
How much did she have at the
end of the year?

11. 7 6 Question N Question M Julie was paid £225 for
her first week of work.
She was paid £267 for
her second week of work.
What percentage increase is this?
(2 decimal places)
May was paid £340 for
her first week of work.
She was paid £408 for
her second week of work.
What percentage increase is this?

12. 7 6 Question P Question O Billy was paid £186 for
his first week of work.
He was paid £143 for
his second week of work.
What percentage decrease is this?
(2 decimal places)
Mike was paid £240 for
his first week of work.
He was paid £168 for
his second week of work.
What percentage decrease is this?

13. 9 8 Question R Question Q Lucy invested £400 for two years.
His investment increased
by 15% each year.
How much did she have at the
end of the two years?
Kelly invested £345 for two years.
Her investment increased
by 7% each year.
How much did she have at the
end of the two years?

14. 10 9 Question T Question S George invested £450 for two years.
His investment decreased
by 25% each year.
How much did he have at the
end of the two years?
Mary invested £63 for two years.
Her investment decreased
by 9% each year.
How much did she have at the
end of the two years?

15. 10 9 Question V Question U In 2018 gold increased in value by
20% to $42 an ounce.
How much was it worth
before the increase?
In 2017 aluminium increased
in value by
24% to $44 a kilogram.
How much was it worth
before the increase?

16. In 2016 silver decreased in value by
Question W
Question X 10 11
In 2016 silver decreased in value by
40% to $34 an ounce.
How much was it worth
before the decrease?
In 2018 copper decreased
in value by
7% to $56 a kilogram.
How much was it worth
before the decrease?

17. 13 12 Question Z Question Y Jack bought a house in 2016.
He sold it to Anna in 2017
for a 15% profit.
Anna sold it for £303,600
and a 20% profit.
How much did Jack
buy the house for?
Mike bought a house in 2016.
He sold it to Sophie in 2017
for a 14% loss.
Sophie sold it for £245,000
and a 3% profit.
How much did Mike
buy the house for?

18. Qu.
Answer
Points A
44% 2 B
65% C
67.5% D
22.5% E
87.1% 3 F
72.83% G
84% 4 H
1/9 5 I
£116 J
£302.58 K
£49 L
£290.50 M
20% 6
Qu.
Answer
Points N
18.67% 7 O
30% 6 P
23.12% Q
£529 8 R
£394.99 9 S
£253.13 T
£52.17 10 U
$35 V
$35.48 W
$56.67 X
$60.22 11 Y
£220,000 12 Z
£276,586.14 13

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