Help students build confidence in calculating discounts and estimating percentages with our engaging and relatable Discount Clothes: Percentages Worksheets. These differentiated worksheets place students in a real-world scenario - a clothing store with various sale items - and challenge them to work out price reductions using estimation strategies and percentage knowledge.

Each worksheet features a colourful clothes shop scene, where students will find price tags and signs showing percentage discounts. However, none of the prices have been marked down yet! It’s up to your students to apply what they know about percentages and make reasonable estimates to determine the discounted price for each item.

This everyday context makes learning about percentages both meaningful and practical. The questions across the three worksheets increase in complexity, allowing for easy differentiation within your classroom. Whether your students are just beginning to explore percentages or are ready to apply more advanced reasoning, there’s a version to suit their needs.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Apply percentage knowledge to real-world shopping contexts
• ✅ Practise using estimation strategies to calculate discounted prices
• ✅ Compare and reason about different discount amounts
• ✅ Build confidence in solving multi-step word problems involving money and percentages

What’s Included:

• 3 differentiated worksheets featuring illustrated clothing store items
• Accompanying questions targeting discount calculations and estimation
• Visually engaging layout with increasing difficulty levels

Materials Needed:

• Printed copies of selected worksheets (choose the version suited to each student)
• Pencils or markers for working out calculations
• Optional: calculators for checking estimates after completion

How to Use:

1. Introduce the concept of calculating discounts using percentages, discussing everyday examples such as sales or clearance prices.
2. Model estimation strategies and mental maths for calculating common percentage discounts (e.g. 10%, 25%, 50%).
3. Distribute the appropriate worksheet to each student or group.
4. Students read the store scene and work through the accompanying questions, applying estimation and reasoning to find the discounted prices.
5. Review answers as a class, encouraging students to share their strategies and thinking.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use as a follow-up activity after a lesson on percentages and mental estimation
• 💡 Include in a maths rotation focused on real-life applications
• 💡 Set as an independent challenge task for early finishers

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Encourage students to estimate first, then check with a calculator for accuracy and comparison
• 💛 Use the worksheets as discussion starters about budgeting and financial literacy
• 💛 Laminate for reuse with dry-erase markers during maths centres

Discount Clothes: Percentages Worksheets offer the perfect blend of fun, real-world relevance, and mathematical challenge - a great resource to build confidence with percentages and estimation.