McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes Percentages and Proportions
The five question question assesses learners on percentages and proportions. Hints are available to help students solve the problems.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Sports and Math: Batting Averages and More
Set up a spreadsheet using a computer or graphing calculator, and perform calculations using columns. Calculate percentages and solve a system of equations regarding baseball statistics.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Beat the Calculator!
Find more than 500 "mental calculation tricks" that will help you square numbers, add, multiply divide, subtract, and find percentages. A great resource for advance math students, gifted children, and teachers wanting to find ideas for...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Baseball: Percentages
Students will compare percentages and convert them to fractions and decimals.
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Understanding Inflation: A Stop Motion Explainer, Parts 1 and 2
Explore a real-life application of percentage-the math behind rates of inflation-in two animated videos about inflation from KQED. The first video provides an overview of inflation; the second explains the role of inflation in a healthy...
PBS
Pbs: Real Life Math: Physical Trainer
The general manager of a fitness center explains how numerical calculations, percentages, and ratios are critical to his job in this video from KAET. In the accompanying classroom activity, students explore percentages, fractions, and...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Street Orchestra: Fractions and Percentages
Adolfo loves Music and Math! Did you know musical notes can be expressed as fractions, decimals, and percents?
Scholastic
Scholastic: Baseball Math
Learn more about baseball and math when you check out this resource. It provides a lesson plan for upper elementary to middle school students where they will use their skills in percentages, decimals and combinations.
Math Drills
Math Drills: Percents Worksheets
Download these worksheets to sharpen your percent calculation skills. Sheets focus on the percentage of a number, percentage rate, and percentage increase/decrease.
Other
Active Maths Limited: Fractions, Decimals & Percentages
Here are two excellent, interactive, teaching resources that visually demonstrate equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages.
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: What's a Percentage?
Use this site to learn about percents, and how they relate to decimals and fractions with this interactive online lesson. You will learn about percents, convert percents into fractions and decimals, and find equal parts of a whole.
US Census Bureau
Us Census: Percentage of People Who Walk to Work in Cities and Population Size
Using census data, students will create box plots to make inferences about the percentages of people who walk to work in cities of different population sizes (small, medium, and large). Students will use these findings to write a short...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Interactive Middle School Math 6
This all-interactive MSM 6 course is a complete and rigorous Grade 6 Mathematics course where the text is the support material, NOT the main content. The course includes instructional interactives, inline immediate-feedback (formative)...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Percents and Estimation
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of using estimation with percents. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Percent Discount and Sales Tax
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of percent discount and sales tax. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Percents and Decimals
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of percents and decimals. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It"...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Percents and Fractions
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of percents and fractions. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It"...
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Percent and Fractions: Ratio and Proportion
Activities and factsheets exploring ratios and proportions in everyday life. Interactive, colorful, and fun.
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Multiplying and Dividing by Powers of 10: The Meaning of Percent
This excellent math resource explains and defines the meaning of percent. Multiplying and dividing by a power of 10 is incorporated as a preview to understanding scientific notation.
The Math League
The Math League: Percent & Probability
This tutorial gives definitions and examples of percents and probability and covers percent as a fraction and percent as a decimal.
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Percent of a Number
This Math Page tutorial explains how to find the percent of a number and features a practice to check comprehension.
Other
Treasury Direct: Money Math: Secret of Becoming a Millionaire [Pdf]
This lesson focuses on understanding fractions, decimals and percentages as the math skills, and saving money and compounding interest as the economic skills. [PDF]
BBC
Bbc: Ks3 Maths: Percentages
KS3 Math provides interactive activities on percentages, using pence and pounds. Use the factsheet for percentage information. You may use the worksheet for percentage practice and take the test provided to check your percentage skills....
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Percent
Explore percents with this easy reference guide. Learn how to convert fractions to percents and percents to fractions. Try the sliding bar to see how a percentage is calculated. Detailed explanations and examples are included.