This product download includes a set of guided notes to introduce the concept of benchmark percent and provides practice with finding 50%, 25%, 20%, 10%, etc. in order to build up or down to other percents. For example, to find 26%, students are guided through finding 25%, then 1%, and adding those values together to determine 26% of a number. The guided notes are in Google Slides format and can be edited, if needed. Aligned with the original (unedited) guided notes come three printable PDF opt