Year 1 Percentage Worksheet
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Year 1 Percentage Worksheet
Year 1 | Ages 5–6
Answer all questions. Try your best and ask your teacher if you need help.
Answer all questions. Try your best and ask your teacher if you need help.
60 questions · 81 marks
Set 1 (Questions 1–20): Starter — understanding 100%, 50% and 25%
What does 100% mean? Choose: everything / nothing / half
What does 50% mean? Choose: quarter / half / whole
What does 25% mean? Choose: quarter / half / whole
Fill in the blank: 50% means ___ out of 100.
Fill in the blank: 25% means ___ out of 100.
Fill in the blank: 100% means ___ out of 100.
50% of 10 = ___
50% of 20 = ___
25% of 4 = ___
25% of 8 = ___
100% of 7 = ___
50% of 6 = ___
25% of 12 = ___
100% of 15 = ___
True or false: 50% is more than 25%.
True or false: 25% is the same as a half.
True or false: 100% of 9 = 9.
75 squares out of 100 are shaded. What percentage is shaded?
50 squares out of 100 are shaded. What percentage is NOT shaded?
Which is larger: 50% or 25%?
Set 2 (Questions 21–40): Main — percentages in everyday contexts
There are 10 sweets. Half are red. How many are red?
There are 8 cookies. A quarter are chocolate. How many are chocolate?
A class has 20 children. 50% are girls. How many are girls?
A bag has 20 stickers. 25% are gold. How many are gold?
A pizza has 8 slices. Sam eats 50%. How many slices does Sam eat?
There are 4 balloons. 25% are blue. How many are blue?
In a box of 12 pencils, 50% are red. How many are red?
There are 40 children in Year 1. 25% are wearing hats. How many are wearing hats?
A bottle holds 100 ml. 50% is used. How many ml remain?
50% of 16 = ___
25% of 16 = ___
A bag has 100 marbles. 50 are blue. What percentage are blue?
A bag has 100 sweets. 25 are red. What percentage are red?
A jar has 100 buttons. All 100 are round. What percentage are round?
True or false: 25% of 8 = 4.
0% of 20 = ___
Put in order smallest to largest: 50%, 100%, 25%.
50% of 14 = ___
25% of 20 = ___
Which is greater: 25% of 20 or 50% of 10? Show how you know.
Set 3 (Questions 41–60): Challenge — multi-step and reasoning questions
A bag has 10 red and 10 blue marbles. What percentage are red?
A class of 20 children: 5 are wearing glasses. What percentage are wearing glasses?
A jar has 100 jelly beans: 50 are green, 25 are red, the rest are yellow. What percentage are yellow?
Sam has 8 counters. He gives away 25%. How many does he give away?
Amy has 20p. She spends 50%. How much does she spend?
A bookshelf has 20 books. 25% are fiction. How many are fiction?
A class has 12 boys and 12 girls. What percentage are boys?
Mia has 8 fish. She gives half to her friend. How many does she keep?
A jar holds 100 sweets. 75 are taken out. What percentage remain?
Tom shades 25 squares in a 100-square grid. What percentage is NOT shaded?
A ribbon is 20 cm long. 50% is cut off. How long is the piece that is cut off?
A sticker book has 100 spaces. Lena fills 75 of them. What percentage is empty?
There are 20 counters. 5 are yellow. What percentage are yellow?
50% of a number is 6. What is the number?
25% of a number is 3. What is the number?
Reasoning: Emma says "25% of 20 is 4." Is she correct? Explain.
Reasoning: Ali says "50% of 14 is 8." Is he correct? Explain.
Reasoning: 100% of any number equals that number. Is this always true? Explain.
Reasoning: Can a percentage ever be more than 100%? Explain your thinking.
Reasoning: Jack says that 50% is always bigger than 25%. Do you agree? Explain.
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Answer Sheet — Year 1 Percentage Worksheet (Set A)
Answers are shown below. When printed, the answer sheet always starts on a new page.
| Q | Answer | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everything (the whole amount) | 1 |
| 2 | Half | 1 |
| 3 | Quarter | 1 |
| 4 | 50 | 1 |
| 5 | 25 | 1 |
| 6 | 100 | 1 |
| 7 | 5 | 1 |
| 8 | 10 | 1 |
| 9 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | 2 | 1 |
| 11 | 7 | 1 |
| 12 | 3 | 1 |
| 13 | 3 | 1 |
| 14 | 15 | 1 |
| 15 | True | 1 |
| 16 | False (25% is a quarter) | 1 |
| 17 | True | 1 |
| 18 | 75% | 1 |
| 19 | 50% | 1 |
| 20 | 50% | 1 |
| 21 | 5 | 1 |
| 22 | 2 | 1 |
| 23 | 10 | 1 |
| 24 | 5 | 1 |
| 25 | 4 | 1 |
| 26 | 1 | 1 |
| 27 | 6 | 1 |
| 28 | 10 | 1 |
| 29 | 50 ml | 1 |
| 30 | 8 | 1 |
| Q | Answer | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| 31 | 4 | 1 |
| 32 | 50% | 1 |
| 33 | 25% | 1 |
| 34 | 100% | 1 |
| 35 | False (25% of 8 = 2) | 1 |
| 36 | 0 | 1 |
| 37 | 25%, 50%, 100% | 1 |
| 38 | 7 | 1 |
| 39 | 5 | 1 |
| 40 | They are equal. 25% of 20 = 5 and 50% of 10 = 5. | 2 |
| 41 | 50% | 2 |
| 42 | 25% | 2 |
| 43 | 25% | 2 |
| 44 | 2 | 2 |
| 45 | 10p | 2 |
| 46 | 5 | 2 |
| 47 | 50% | 2 |
| 48 | 4 | 2 |
| 49 | 25% | 2 |
| 50 | 75% | 2 |
| 51 | 10 cm | 2 |
| 52 | 25% | 2 |
| 53 | 25% | 2 |
| 54 | 12 | 2 |
| 55 | 12 | 2 |
| 56 | No. 25% of 20 = 5, not 4. 25% means a quarter, and a quarter of 20 is 5. | 2 |
| 57 | No. 50% of 14 = 7, not 8. Half of 14 is 7. | 2 |
| 58 | Yes. 100% means all of something, so 100% of any number gives back that same number. | 2 |
| 59 | No (at this stage). 100% means everything, so you cannot have more than everything in a single group. | 2 |
| 60 | Yes. 50 out of 100 is always more than 25 out of 100, so 50% is always larger than 25%. | 2 |