Percentages Murder Mystery Maths Activity | KS2–KS3 Percentage Worksheets with Answers
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Turn percentage practice into an exciting murder mystery investigation! Students become maths detectives and must solve a series of percentage challenges to uncover the weapon, the killer, the time of the crime and the location. 🕵️♀️📁
🔎 CAN YOUR STUDENTS CRACK THE CASE?
Dr Rachel Numbers has been found dead while working on a project involving financial trends and percentages. Students must use their mathematical skills to follow the clues and identify what happened. 🚨🧮
💯 PERCENTAGE SKILLS COVERED
Students tackle a varied selection of problems involving:
🔢 Finding percentages of amounts
❓ Finding a missing percentage
💷 Percentage word problems
📈 Percentage increase
📉 Percentage decrease
➕ Combining answers
🧠 Multi-step problem solving
🔍 Applying maths to clues
The challenges progress from calculations such as 40% of 50 and 75% of 120 to missing-percentage questions and percentage increase/decrease problems.
🕵️ FOUR MYSTERY CLUES TO SOLVE
🔪 Clue 1: Determine the weapon
👤 Clue 2: Identify the killer
⏰ Clue 3: Discover the time of the murder
🏢 Clue 4: Find the location of the crime
Students can't simply guess – they need to calculate correctly to eliminate possibilities and crack the case! 🔐✨
📈 MORE CHALLENGING PERCENTAGE WORK
Later activities introduce contextual problems involving discounts, profits, test scores, sales and percentage increases/decreases, giving students opportunities to apply percentage skills to different scenarios.
🌟 Perfect for:
🇬🇧 KS2 Maths
🇬🇧 KS3 Maths
💯 Percentages lessons
🧮 Maths revision
🕵️ Murder mystery activities
🎯 Problem solving
🏆 Maths challenges
👥 Paired or group work
✏️ Independent learning
⏰ End-of-term lessons
⭐ Early finishers
📚 Intervention and consolidation
✅ ANSWERS INCLUDED!
Teacher answer pages are provided, making the activity easy to mark and ideal for classroom use or self-assessment.
🖨️ 9 PAGES • PRINT & GO
🕵️ Engaging mystery theme
💯 Multiple percentage skills
🧠 Problem-solving focus
📚 KS2–KS3 friendly
✅ Answer pages included
🎯 Great alternative to traditional percentage worksheets
🕵️♂️💯 SOLVE THE PERCENTAGES • FOLLOW THE CLUES • CRACK THE CASE! 🔍🔢
A fun way to make percentage revision more memorable and engaging, perfect for adding a little mystery to your next maths lesson! 🚨📚✨