WiseCalcs

Math calculators

Percentages, fractions, and everyday math made quick.

Most everyday sums are not hard — they are just easy to get wrong in your head or on a phone keypad. The calculators below show the working, so you can see where the number came from instead of just trusting it.

Percentages and everyday numbers

School and grades

Geometry, units, and number systems

General calculators

Percentage is three different questions

What people call "doing percentages" covers at least three things: what is 20% of 450, what percentage of 450 is 90, and what is the change from 450 to 540. Each has its own sum, and they get mixed up constantly. The biggest trap is the last one: a 20% rise followed by a 20% fall does not return you to the start, because the two percentages are taken from different numbers.

Percentage calculator handles the ordinary questions, while Percent change calculator is the one for when something has moved from one figure to another.

Rounding is not one rule

What happens to a number ending in exactly 5 depends on the rule you apply. Ordinary rounding goes up; other methods round to the nearest even number to avoid a systematic bias when many rounded values are added together. Rounding calculator shows which rule produced the result rather than handing you a bare number.

Area, units, and numbers

Square footage calculator turns measurements into an area and is the starting point for most home and building jobs. Geometry calculator covers the classic shapes, Unit converter moves between units of measure, and Fraction calculator works in fractions without detouring through decimals.

For heavier work there is Scientific calculator and Statistics calculator, and for numbers in their own right, Prime number calculator and Roman numerals converter.

Grades

Final grade calculator answers what you need on the last assessment to land on a target average, and GPA calculator works out a weighted grade point average. Grading scales differ by country — the calculators work on the numbers you enter and do not translate between scales.

FAQ

Why doesn't a 20% rise then a 20% fall get me back to where I started?
Because the two percentages are taken from different numbers. 100 plus 20% is 120, but 20% of 120 is 24, not 20. You end on 96. The bigger the percentage, the bigger the gap.
What is the difference between percent and percentage points?
Percentage points are the absolute difference between two percentages; percent is the relative one. A rate going from 2% to 3% has risen by 1 percentage point — but by 50%. Both are true, and the two get used interchangeably to make a change sound bigger or smaller.
How do these calculators round?
The rounding calculator lets you pick the rule and tells you which one it used. The others round the displayed result to a readable number of decimals but carry the full value internally, so rounding does not accumulate through the working.
Can I work in fractions without converting to decimals?
Yes. The fraction calculator adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides fractions and reduces the result. That matters when the answer needs to stay a fraction — going via decimals introduces a rounding error, staying in fractions does not.
Which scale does the GPA calculator use?
The US 4.0 scale with credit weighting. It does not convert from other national grading systems — you enter the grades and weights you want it to work on.
Is the statistics calculator for a sample or a population?
It does both and shows the difference. It matters because standard deviation is calculated differently for a sample than for a full population, and the wrong choice biases the result on small data sets.