{"id":11860,"date":"2018-04-26T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T11:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/?p=11860"},"modified":"2018-09-19T22:47:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:47:18","slug":"the-tricks-to-fractions-decimals-and-percentages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/2018\/04\/the-tricks-to-fractions-decimals-and-percentages\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tricks to Fractions, Decimals and Percentages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Question:<br \/>\n40% of the students in a hall are male. After 10 female students leave, there are equal numbers of male and female students now. Do you know how many male students are in the hall?<\/p>\n<p>Comment:<br \/>\nThis is a typical example of challenging word problems at P6. Students can hardly write down a simple expression to solve it. However, I suggest my student using pictures to make the problem much easier, without the use of equations.<\/p>\n<p>The solution by my student:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/percent-problem2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1191\" height=\"1685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/percent-problem2.png 1191w, https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/percent-problem2-424x600.png 424w, https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/percent-problem2-768x1087.png 768w, https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/percent-problem2-724x1024.png 724w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1191px) 100vw, 1191px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: 40% of the students in a hall are male. After 10 female students leave, there are equal numbers of male and female students now. Do you know how many male students are in the hall? Comment: This is a typical example of challenging word problems at P6. Students can hardly write down a simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":11861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[751],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12268,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860\/revisions\/12268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}