Percents Teacher Resources

The main confusion with percent change is with setting up the problem. Show your learners how to use proportions to solve for the percent change and how to organize the information correctly. The lesson uses the scale factor method to...

The Common Core is all about ratios and proportions, and this video uses that method to calculate percents. This is the second video in a series that organizes information from an ice cream poll into a proportion to find how many vanilla...

Sal clarifies what it means when students see a percent problem such as 100 is what percent of 80? He explicitly defines what each component of the problem literally means and then clearly breaks down the process for solving the problem.

Sal uses two 100 cubes and continues the process of describing what percents mean. He shades the cubes to show 109%, reviews vocabulary, and references the connection between percents, fractions, and decimals. Great for introducing the...

Sam's mom is a bowling woman and her birthday is around the corner. Can Sam afford the shirt in the store window for her? Mia helps him solve a multi-step percent problem to figure it out!

Take young mathematicians' understanding of percents into the real world with this series of word problems. Involving a variety of contexts from calculating scores on math tests and savings account interest, to determining sale prices...

Post the names of movies that have sequels around the room and ask questions, which the students will answer by going to stand by the name of the movie that fits best. Then work with your class to analyze revenue from each film and...

Create a one out of a hundred model. Using a grid to visualize percents, pupils shade squares to solve percent problems. Learners develop the conceptual understanding of a percent and use the value of one percent to solve problems.

Given 26 numbers, participants compute percents. They use two different methods: proportions, or equations, in order to solve for the percent of each number. This is an outstanding worksheet, neatly formatted and providing the repetitive...

Two different ways to find a number when the percent is given are described on the top half of this handout. Eight practice problems follow. Concise, yet complete, this would make an appropriate addition to your choices of homework...

If percents, fractions, and decimals can all mean the same number how do we go from one to another? During this instructional activity, watch how it goes over the basic steps needed to go from one rational number to the next. Both...

Percents and proportions go hand in hand since they both represent parts of a whole. Your learners are given a scenario to find out how many text messages Alice gets if 60 text messages are 40 percent of her plan. The lesson, part of a...

Learners who view this video will gain a stronger understanding of percent of change. The tutorial provides a formula and a sample problem. As the tutor completes the example, she explains and clarifies each step that she takes to find...

We see percents everywhere! Building a solid understanding of their meaning is important to future mathematics, but also as citizens. Young scholars practice rewriting decimals, percents, and fractions. They also determine percents of a...

Converting percents to decimals, and the other way around, can be tricky. Sal shows young mathematicians how to simplify this process with two sample equations and one word problem.

Pre algebraic learners will be able to master conversion of fractions, decimals, and percents in no time when they use the illustrations on this resource.

Grasp conversion with these excellent fraction, decimal, and percent worksheets that have a graphic model of place value. Mathematicians will grasp the concept in no time.

Examine food labels to determine percentage of fat and sugar to total calories with middle schoolers. Daily nutritional guidelines are discussed and learners will decide how well their foods fit into a healthy diet. In the provided...

What percentage of your class understands percents? Pupils learn the meaning of percents based upon rates per 100 in the 24th lesson in a series of 29. They represent percents as fractions, decimals, ratios, and models. The scholars...

A word problem, chemistry, and percent? I know you want to throw your hands in the air and run away from this problem, but please don't. Pay close attention as the instructor helps you unpack this word problem to set up an equation that...

Here is a terrific series of lessons on the relationships between fractions, decimals, and percents. This incredibly detailed, 28-page plan is jam-packed full of terrific activities and worksheets that will make implementation of the...

What does a percent actually mean? This resource describes the meaning of a percent using a 100 cube to illustrate what 20% literally represents. Great starter video on the topic of percents.

Young scholars convert decimals and fractions to percents. In this introductory percents lesson plan, learners work with equivalent fractions and learn to draw ratios. They recognize how to change a fraction to a percent.

New ReviewDon't discount the lesson. Part of The Lowdown: Real-World Math series, an engaging video shows viewers how to calculate percent discounts using the idea that percents are ratios out of 100. It also looks at how to determine whether a 20...