1. Percentage of a Quantity – Messenger!
In this activity, one student at a time acts as a messenger for their team (2+ students).
Without running (!), they relay information about the 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! 10
Optional rules slide to show the class.

5. 3 3 Question B Question A John had 50 marbles. He gave 10% to Tom.
How many marbles did Tom get?
Sophie had 80 marbles.
She gave 10% to Jane.
How many marbles did Jane get?

6. 3 3 Question D Question C Tony had $80.
He gave 50% of the money to Joe.
How much money did Joe get?
Sarah had $30.
She gave 50% of the money to Polly.
How much money did Polly get?

7. 4 4 Question F Question E Peter bought 36 sweets.
He gave 25% of them to Anna.
How many sweets did Anna get?
Mary bought 88 sweets.
She gave 25% of them to Tony.
How many sweets did Tony get?

8. 5 5 Question H Question G Josh gave 75% of his strawberries to Ben.
Josh had 52 strawberries
to start with.
How many strawberries did Ben get?
May gave 25% of her
strawberries to Paul.
May had 128 strawberries
to start with.
How many strawberries did Paul get?

9. Question I
Question J 5 5
There were 60 oranges in the shop and David bought 20% of them.
How many oranges did David buy?
There were 70 oranges in the shop and Sally bought 30% of them.
How many oranges did Sally buy?

10. Question K
Question L 5 5
Beth bought 40% of the apples at the supermarket.
There were 90 apples in the supermarket to begin with.
How many apples did Beth buy?
George bought 70% of the apples at the supermarket.
There were 80 apples in the supermarket to begin with.
How many apples did George buy?

11. 6 6 Question N Question M Sam ate 80% of his fries.
There were 120 fries to begin with.
How many fries did Sam eat?
Vicky ate 70% of her fries.
There were 150 fries to begin with.
How many fries did Vicky eat?

12. 8 7 Question P Question O Iona’s bottle held 500ml of water.
If she drank 15% of the water, how much would be left?
Dina’s bottle held 600ml of water.
If she drank 35% of the water, how much would be left?

13. Question Q
Question R 8 9
Tommy had a 460g slice of cheese. Tammy took 85% of
the cheese!
How much cheese did
Tammy take?
Danny had a 260g slice of cheese. Donny took 65% of
the cheese.
How much cheese was
Danny left with?

14. How much money did Roger
Question S
Question T 9 9
Jane got paid £35.
She gave 45% to her friend.
How much money did Jane
give her friend?
Roger got paid £85.
He gave 65% to his friend.
How much money did Roger
give his friend?

15. 10 10 Question V Question U Josh’s birthday cake weighed 2.4Kg.
Jane had a 25% slice.
Then Joan took 40% of
what was left.
How much cake was Josh left with?
Pam’s birthday cake weighed 3.6Kg.
Pete took a huge 75% slice!
Then Paul took 30% of
what was left.
How much cake was Pam left with?

16. 13 12 Question X Question W Rob went to Japan with 5500 Yen.
He spent 30% on accommodation.
He spent 40% of what he had left on food. He then spent 90% of the remaining money on transport.
How many Yen did Rob have left at the end of the trip?
Freya went to Japan with 4400 Yen.
She spent 60% on accommodation.
She spent 25% of what she had left on food. She then spent 15% of the remaining money on transport.
How many Yen did Freya have left at the end of the trip?

17. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X
Qu.
Answer
Points A 5 3 B 8 C
$40 D
$15 E 9 4 F 22 G 39 H 32 I 12 J 21 K 36 L 56
Qu.
Answer
Points M 96 6 N
105 O
425ml 7 P
390ml 8 Q
391g R
91g 9 S
£15.75 T
£55.25 U
1080g 10 V
630g W
¥231 12 X
¥1122 13
Answers to display so students can mark their own or another team’s work.

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