Curated OER
Ratios and Percents
Sixth graders practice finding percentages, converting them, and analyze percentage statistics and facts about rice. In this ratios and percentages lesson, 6th graders read information about percentages related to rice. Students complete...
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Ratios, Rates and Percentages
In this ratios, rates and percentages worksheet, 6th graders solve 16 different types of problems that include writing each ratio as a decimal and a fraction in lowest terms as a percent. They also arrange numbers in ascending order and...
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Family Letter - Foreign Currency and Exchange Rates: Proportions and Ratios
In this proportions and ratios worksheet, middle schoolers solve 6 short answer problems. Students find the foreign currency exchange rates for six countries. Middle schoolers express the exchange rate as a proportion or ratio.
Teach Engineering
Enough Energy? Play the Renew-a-Bead Game
Pairs simulate the energy usage of different countries by drawing beads from a bag, which contain different beginning ratios of non-renewable and renewable energy resources. The activity concludes with a series of questions to tie the...
Yummy Math
US Holiday Candy Sales
Candy is a big business! Calculate the amount of money consumers spent on major holidays—Easter, Halloween, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Valentine's Day—based on the total amount of candy sales from 2011 and the percentage of each holiday's...
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Missouri Rice Farming
Sixth graders investigate rice farming in Missouri. In this percentages activity, 6th graders determine how much rice production has increased over time. Students find this number in percentages. Students then figure the percent of acres...
Bowland
Outbreak: Infection Detection
Explore the mathematics of infection outbreaks with activities that ask learners to use coordinate grids to locate infected patients. They calculate amounts of ingredients for antidotes and determine which groups of people should be...
Curated OER
Hybrid Vehicles: Cut Pollution and Save Money
Students examine how driving a hybrid car can save money and cut down on pollution. In this hybrid vehicles lesson students complete an exercise that shows them how to work with proportions, percents, dimensional analysis and linear...
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Stars and Stripes
Young scholars design a United States flag using reasoning. They describe their design to make it easy for it to be duplicated. They share their designs with the class.