Demystifying - Repeated percentage change

Drills

Applying the same change repeatedly by raising the multiplier to a power.

Author note — to cover

Cover applying one percentage change n times as the multiplier raised to the power n, why adding percentages fails (two 10% rises give 21%, not 20%), and small-n money and population questions. Different consecutive changes are successive-changes; the compound interest formula, depreciation and how-long questions live in Growth and decay. Both tiers. (R9, R16)

  • Fluency — direct questions on repeated percentage change, limited to this lesson's stated scope (4 questions).
  • Application — use the same skill in unfamiliar or contextual questions without introducing a later method (4 questions).
  • Check — questions built around the exclusions and likely misconceptions named in the lesson brief (4 questions).

The test

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The method this drill practises is taught on Repeated percentage change.