2 Real Life Situations on Calculating Percentages

1. This weekend when we went to a restaurant with my mom the bill was around 2000 dinars and my mom wanted to give a tip around 5 or 10 percent of that and she asked me to calculate how much it would be so I did. 5 percent of 2000 would be like 100 and 10 percent would be 200. So she decided that giving a tip of 5 percent was enough, which made her give a 100 dinar tip.

2. I had 20 euros and I want to change it into dinars at a currency exchange bank. But I decided I don't want to change the whole 20 euros!!! So I will only change 50 percent of it. It takes me a long time to figure out 50 percent of 20 euros, but at last I manage to so I just change 10 euros and get around 1000 dinars.

Fractions, Decimals and Percentages

How I feel on fractions, decimals and percentages at school?

When we were doing exercises on the board fractions were a bit confusing in the beginning but than I started to understand them really well. In decimals our teacher thought us a good and very interesting technique. It was like skipping two lines and drawing to half circles. He told us a story about it which makes me remember the way he does it. Percentages were much more easier than I expected at the beginning because I learned two or three easy ways to deal with them. It was really helpful for me.

My Math Blog

This will be my Math blog for the rest of the year. I will write everything we do in class this year. Homeworks, assignment,projects,etc.