Percents Drill Worksheets
Percent is a fraction with a fixed denominator, and the sheets here keep that connection visible. Grade 5 converts between percents, fractions and decimals and takes benchmark percents of a number; grade 6 finds a percent of a number, what percent one number is of another, and the whole from a part; grade 7 applies it to tax, tip, discount and percent change; grade 8 adds simple interest and multi-step percent problems.
Every percent-of-a-number problem on these sheets has a clean answer — the numbers are chosen so that 15% of 60 comes out to 9, not 9.000000001 — because the skill being practiced is the reasoning, not long division.
Percents from grade 5 to grade 8
Percents runs from grade 5 to grade 8 on 20 worksheets, four grades in all. The drill sheet shows the climb: grade 5, 30 problems with numbers to 300; grade 6, 30 problems with numbers to 500; grade 7, 30 problems with numbers to 769; grade 8, 30 problems with numbers to 3,700. Formats offered: drill at four grades, timed drill at four grades, missing number at four grades, mixed review at four grades, and word problems at four grades. Compare problem 11 of the grade 5 drill, "Write 15% as a decimal.", with problem 11 of the grade 8 drill, "A value changes from 40 to 20. What is the percent decrease?". Counted across every Set A percents page: 38 with fractions, 105 with decimals to 2 places, and 70 fill-in blanks. The percents sheets carry two Common Core tags, from 6.RP.3 to 7.RP.3.
For exact percents number ranges at any grade from grade 5 to grade 8, use the worksheet generator.
Choose a grade
Percents on this site runs from Grade 5 to grade 8: 20 worksheets across four grades and five formats (drill, timed drill, missing number, mixed review, and word problems), each in three versions, for 1,896 problems in all with every answer keyed. One of the sheets are original sheets kept as Set A of their cell, with Sets B and C derived from them.
Grade by grade: Grade 5 works on percents as fractions and decimals, and benchmark percents of a number; Grade 6 works on percent of a number, finding the percent, and finding the whole; Grade 7 works on tax, tip and discount, percent increase and decrease, and harder percents of a number; Grade 8 works on percent change, simple interest, and multi-step percent problems.
Focus: percents as fractions and decimals, and benchmark percents of a number.
Grade 5 Percents Drill
Straight practice, 20-40 problems.
Grade 5 Percents Timed Drill
Fact fluency, 50-100 problems, timer box on sheet.
Grade 5 Percents Missing Number
Solve for the blank in any position.
Grade 5 Percents Mixed Review
Assorted problem shapes from the operation.
Grade 5 Percents Word Problems
Story problems in real-world contexts.
Focus: percent of a number, finding the percent, and finding the whole.
Grade 6 Percents Drill
Straight practice, 20-40 problems.
Grade 6 Percents Timed Drill
Fact fluency, 50-100 problems, timer box on sheet.
Grade 6 Percents Missing Number
Solve for the blank in any position.
Grade 6 Percents Mixed Review
Assorted problem shapes from the operation.
Grade 6 Percents Word Problems
Story problems in real-world contexts.
Focus: tax, tip and discount, percent increase and decrease, and harder percents of a number.
Grade 7 Percents Drill
Straight practice, 20-40 problems.
Grade 7 Percents Timed Drill
Fact fluency, 50-100 problems, timer box on sheet.
Grade 7 Percents Missing Number
Solve for the blank in any position.
Grade 7 Percents Mixed Review
Assorted problem shapes from the operation.
Grade 7 Percent, Tax, Tip, and Discount Word Problems
Story problems in real-world contexts.
Focus: percent change, simple interest, and multi-step percent problems.
Grade 8 Percents Drill
Straight practice, 20-40 problems.
Grade 8 Percents Timed Drill
Fact fluency, 50-100 problems, timer box on sheet.
Grade 8 Percents Missing Number
Solve for the blank in any position.
Grade 8 Percents Mixed Review
Assorted problem shapes from the operation.
Grade 8 Percents Word Problems
Story problems in real-world contexts.
The six formats
- Drill. Straight practice, 20-40 problems. Percents of a number, page after page, is how the benchmark values — 10%, 25%, 50% — become instant.
- Timed Drill. Fact fluency, 50-100 problems, timer box on sheet. Conversions between percents, fractions and decimals are facts as much as procedures, and a timer tells you which are known.
- Missing Number. Solve for the blank in any position. Blanking the percent, the whole or the part gives the same relationship three different ways.
- Mixed Review. Assorted problem shapes from the operation. Conversions, percent-of and reverse problems on one page keep the student reading the question, not the pattern.
- Word Problems. Story problems in real-world contexts. Sales, tips, tests and savings are the contexts percent was invented for.