Foundation Course in Ratios and Percents

This is a foundation course offered by StudyPorch covering Ratios and Percents. This course is most appropriate for children in grades 5-8.

Course Outline

Ratios and Proportions

•  Ratios Overview
•  Converting Ratios to lowest terms
•  Equivalent Ratios
•  Part-to-part and Part-to-whole Ratios
•  Merging ratios into a single ratio
•  Scale
•  Proportions Overview
•  Comparing Proportions
•  Direct and Inverse Proportions
•  Time and Work
•  Time and Distance
•  Average
•  Rate
•  Speed

Percents

•  Percents overview
•  Percent as a quantity
•  Equivalence and conversion between fractions, decimals, and percents
•  Using Percents for financial transactions
•  Cost Price, Sale Price, Profit and Loss
•  Discounts and Markups
•  Multiple discounts and conversion to a single discounts
•  Simple and Compound Interest