Turn your percentages lesson into an exciting detective challenge with this Percentages Murder Mystery, designed for KS3 Maths and Grades 5–7 learners. Pupils work through percentage of amounts, missing percentages, percentage change and real-life word problems to reveal four key clues: the weapon, the killer, the time of the crime and the location.
The crime-scene mystery theme keeps every student engaged while developing fluency, reasoning and multi-step problem-solving skills.
Perfect for main lessons, revision, group work or a high-engagement end-of-term activity.
What’s Included:
• ✦ Full murder-mystery worksheet (four clue rounds)
• ✦ Percentage of amounts problems
• ✦ Missing-percentage reasoning tasks
• ✦ Percentage increase & decrease questions
• ✦ Multi-step word problems (real-life contexts)
• ✦ Complete answer sheet for easy marking
Why Teachers Love It:
• ✔ High-engagement maths with a strong narrative thread
• ✔ Covers a wide range of percentage skills
• ✔ Ideal for mixed-ability groups
• ✔ Great for retrieval, revision or cover lessons
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