Common Core Sheets
Finding Percents
What is 75% of 200? The answer is 150. These are the types of questions students are prompted to solve, in a worksheet that reinforces finding percents of a number.
Common Core Sheets
Finding Percent of a Decimal
Math sleuths find ways to solve problems to the nearest hundredth. These worksheets enable them find the percent of a decimal and is great for practice/reinforcement of this skill.
Scholastic
Study Jams! Find Probability
Sam bought tickets for a school raffle and wants to know if he has a good chance of winning. Help him find out with this step-by-step presentation on basic probability. Examples clearly model how to find the probability of simple events...
EngageNY
Percent of a Quantity
Visualize methods of finding percents. Classmates find a percent of a quantity using two methods including a visual model in the 26th lesson in a series of 29. By the end of the lesson, scholars find percents given a part and the whole...
CK-12 Foundation
Percent of a Number: Rock Climbing
What percent of the 100 ft. rock has Marta climbed? Young mathematicians find the percent of number (the rock height) by moving the climber up and down the rock.
CK-12 Foundation
Proportions to Find Percents: Bag of Candy
Proportions and percents are the focus of an interactive designed to boost math proficiency. Five questions challenge participants to solve candy-themed word problems. A color-coded tool with moveable parts assists mathematicians in the...
Illustrative Mathematics
Finding a 10% increase
A quick problem to test your mathematicians' knowledge on percent increase. Two different solutions are provided, mental math and computing. Ask your learners to include a description of what they did to supplement their answer.
Math Worksheets Land
Percent of a Number - Worksheet
Take the work out of worksheets and give your learners practice with finding percents of numbers in the 100s. This resource has five versions of the same topic to provide different questions to meet your needs.
CK-12 Foundation
Fractions as Percents: Baking Cookies
A five-question interactive challenges mathematicians to solve word problems involving fractions as percents. Baking two different types of cookies and needing the exact amount requires scholars to make fractions, turn them into...
EngageNY
Percent and Rates per 100
What percentage of your class understands percents? Pupils learn the meaning of percents based upon rates per 100 in the 24th instructional activity in a series of 29. They represent percents as fractions, decimals, ratios, and models....
Curated OER
Finding Percentages
Here is an approach to calculating percent with 16 practice problems to solidify the skill. Two examples demonstrate dividing by 100 to get one percent and then multiplying by the percentage in question to get the solution. Learners find...
Curated OER
The Art of Interpreting Percent
Ddefine the relationships between fractions, decimals, and percentages in a series of lessons. The class practices converting between these three versions of a number. They also find the common factor of a numerator and denominator and...
Curated OER
Representing Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
In this fractions, decimals, and percents lessons, students explore various methods of representing fractions. They demonstrate situations that represent rational numbers. Students create a foldable exploring fractions, decimals and...
101 Questions
Amazon Percent Discount
Everyone loves a good sale! A straightforward lesson provides practice with calculating a percent off of a product. Using ads from Amazon, individuals calculate the percent off the ad does not show. Pupils see the answer after revealing...
EngageNY
Solving Percent Problems II
Fill in the blanks to find the best discount! Groups complete a table of amounts and percents associated with sale items. Classmates then find the original cost, sale cost, discount amount, paid percent, or the discount percent based...
EngageNY
Solving Percent Problems III
What happens when combining percentage discounts? The last lesson in a series of 29 introduces the idea of combining discounts one after another. Pupils wrestle with the claim that to find the total discount, they need to only add the...
EngageNY
Solving Percent Problems
Don't discount how much your pupils understand percents! The 27th lesson in a series of 29 presents a problem to find the cost of a discounted outfit. Small groups determine either the original price or the discount received given the...
Illustrative Mathematics
Chess Club
When the membership in a chess club changes, it is your mathematicians' job to find out how many boys and girls are attending and the percent change from last year. The activity provides a great compound problem finding the different...
Math Worksheets Land
Finding Percentages (of 10s)
Here are five different versions of worksheets to calculate percentages of a number. Although there is no answer key, this resource takes the work out of making different versions of the same topic.
Illustrative Mathematics
The Price of Bread
As part of an initiative to strengthen our young adults' financial understanding, this problem explores the cost of bread and minimum wage since the 1930s. Learners are asked to find the percent increase from each year and compare it...
Illustrative Mathematics
Shirt Sale
Everyone loves a good deal, and your mathematician's job is to calculate the original price when given the discount. A different type of problem than the traditional "find the percent change" has your learners working backwards to...
Math Worksheets Land
Multistep Ratio and Percent Word Problems - Step-by-Step Lesson
What happens when you have a recipe and need to up the measurements? Here is a lesson that explains how to use ratios to convert measurements and percents with worked out problems. Also provided are additional resources and practice...
Math Worksheets Land
Find Percentages of Numbers - Guided Lesson
Practice the skill of finding percentages of a number with this resource and explanation key. The worksheet also comes with a quick lesson and additional practice problems to provide a complete lesson for your learners.
Curated OER
Finding Percents of a Number
In this finding percents worksheet, students use the given percent and number to help them find the value of each percent. Students solve forty percent problems.