Percent practice
Free percent practice for kids: pick a skill and answer 10 questions, marked as you go, with a hint for every mistake.
🧒 Kids: pick a skill, type your answer and tap Check ✓! For 35%, just type 35.
Ready-made practice rounds: 11 skills by grade
| Skill | What your child does | Grade |
|---|---|---|
| What is a percent | Shaded hundred grids, percents as decimals. | 6 |
| Percents and decimals | 35% = 0.35 and 0.075 = 7.5%. | 6 |
| Percents and fractions | 45% = 9/20 and 3/8 = 37.5%. | 6 |
| Compare & order | Find the biggest of a fraction, a decimal and a percent. | 6 |
| Benchmark percents | 50%, 25%, 10%, 5% and 1% in your head. | 5–6 |
| Percent of a number | 25% of 88, 15% of 60. | 6 |
| Over 100% and under 1% | 150% of 40, 0.5% of 600, 175% as a decimal. | 6–7 |
| What percent? | 12 is what percent of 48? | 6 |
| Find the whole | 18 is 30% of what number? | 6 |
| Percent change | Percent increase or decrease, and increasing by a percent. | 7 |
| Discount, tax & tip | Sale prices, sales tax and tips. | 7 |
| Simple interest | Interest, totals, rates and time: I = P × r × t. | 7 |
| Markup, commission & error | Selling prices, commission and percent error. | 7 |
| Word problems | Short stories with part, whole and percent. | 6–7 |
Each link opens the practice tool on that skill, so you can bookmark or share the one your child needs.
How to use the percent practice
- Pick a skill. If you are not sure, start with What is a percent and move right along the row as each one gets easy.
- Answer each question. Percents are typed without the % sign. On a phone, a number pad with a point key appears below.
- Read the hint when an answer is wrong. It shows the method: dividing by 100, the 10% trick or finding 1% first.
- Check the stars. 8 or more out of 10 means the skill is secure. The results list the questions to practice again.
How answers are marked
Answers are marked by value, so 0.5 and 0.50 both count for one half, and 12.5 is right for 12.5%. Money answers can be typed as 24.5 or 24.50.
Questions that ask for a fraction have a top box and a bottom box. Any equivalent fraction is marked right, but the hint shows the simplest form, because that is what most tests expect.
A sensible order for percent practice
Percents rest on two older ideas: fractions out of 100 and decimals. A child who sees that 35% is 35/100 and 0.35 finds every later skill easier. This order follows the US Common Core and the NCERT books:
- What a percent is (grade 6): hundred grids and per cent meaning out of 100.
- Converting between percents, decimals and fractions (grade 6). The converter shows the steps.
- The three percent questions (grade 6): percent of a number, what percent, and finding the whole.
- Percent change (grade 7): increase, decrease and the multiplier method.
- Money with percents (grade 7): discounts, sales tax, tips and simple interest. The percent calculator checks each one.
When a percent skill won’t stick
- Moving the point the wrong way: writing 35% as 3.5 or 0.035. Percent means out of 100, so 35% is 35 hundredths: 0.35.
- Mixing up the part and the whole: in “12 is what percent of 48?”, the whole comes after “of”. Divide the part by the whole.
- Using the new amount for percent change. Always divide the change by the starting amount.
- Taking the discount but forgetting to subtract it. 20% off $40 is $8 off, so the sale price is $32.
A 10-minute routine
- Minutes 1–2: say 10%, 25% and 50% of a round number out loud, like 80.
- Minutes 3–8: one round of 10 questions on the current skill.
- Minutes 9–10: read the hints for anything missed and try one again on paper.
For parents and teachers in the classroom
- Share a skill: add ?skill=meaning, convert, frac, compare, of, what, whole, change, shop, interest or word to the address.
- Projector friendly: large numbers and an on-screen number pad work well for a whole-class warm-up.
- Private by design: no account and nothing stored online.
More percentage help
- Percent practice: 10 questions on any of 11 skills, marked as you go.
- Percent calculator with steps: percent of a number, what percent, the whole and percent change.
- Fraction, decimal and percent converter with a hundred grid.
- Lessons: percent of a number · finding the percent · percent change · percent to decimal
- Worksheets: percent of a number · finding the percent · percent change · percent to decimal · make a percent test
Back to percentages for kids · decimals · fractions · 6th grade math · 7th grade math
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Questions parents ask
How can my child practice percentages online for free?
Use the practice tool at the top of this page. Pick a skill, such as percent of a number or discounts, and answer 10 questions one at a time. Every answer is marked straight away, with a hint when it is wrong.
How do I type a percent answer?
Type just the number, like 35 for 35%. The % sign is shown for you. Decimal answers use a point, like 0.35, and money answers are typed like 24.50.
Which percent skill should my child start with?
Start with What is a percent and the two conversion skills. Then move on to percent of a number, what percent and finding the whole. Percent change, shopping and interest come last.
What grade are these percent questions for?
Grades 6 and 7 (classes 6 and 7). Conversions, percent of a number and finding the whole suit grade 6. Percent change, discounts, tax, tips and simple interest suit grade 7.
Do the questions repeat?
No. Every round makes new random questions, so the same skill can be practiced again and again.
Can teachers use this percent practice in class?
Yes. Link to a skill with ?skill= at the end of the address, for example /percentages/practice/?skill=shop. Every child gets their own random questions, and nothing needs a login.