/adultnumeracycenter/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-percents/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:19:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /adultnumeracycenter/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-percents/#comment-17 Sun, 01 Nov 2020 04:12:53 +0000 https://adultnumeracyatterc.wordpress.com/?p=687#comment-17 […] To solve this problem with the diagram, a student would figure out how many people each box represents. (Four boxes represent 60 people, so how many people are represented by a single box?) Since the total number of people who applied is represented by the whole bar or five boxes, once a student knows how many people each box stands for, they will be able to find the whole in just one more step. (For a similar example using a model like this, see our blog, “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Percents”.) […] ]]> /adultnumeracycenter/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-percents/#comment-16 Fri, 29 May 2020 15:19:48 +0000 https://adultnumeracyatterc.wordpress.com/?p=687#comment-16 Love the benchmarks, and appreciate your saying they expand over time. I have been able to figure out that 1/8 equals 12.5 % for more than 50 years, but I noticed recently that it has become something I just know, without any figuring or quick thinking that 1/8 is half of 1/4. ]]>