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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Percent Error Problems

For Teachers 7th Standards
Individuals measure a computer monitor and determine how accurate their measures are. The eighth segment in a series of 20 introduces the concept of percent error. Pupils find the percent error of their measurements and discuss the...
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Worksheet
Math Worksheets Land

Percent Error and Percent Increase - Guided Lesson

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
When prices and numbers change, can you calculate by how much? Here is a worksheet that introduces the idea of percent change and percent error to calculator how much change the information goes through. Use the worked-out solutions to...
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Lesson Plan
Math Worksheets Land

Percent Error and Percent Increase - Step-by-Step Lesson

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Half a foot difference may not mean much, but converting that to an 8% change puts it into perspective for young minds. The lesson discusses the idea of converting information into percents to discover errors made and how much it...
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Worksheet
Math Worksheets Land

Percent Error and Percent Increase - Matching Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Calculating percent change is a handy tool to understand sales, discounts, and other numerical changes we come across. Here, worksheet practices percent change and percent error with a variety of problems to let your learners see how it...
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Worksheet
Math Worksheets Land

Percent Error and Percent Increase - Independent Practice Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Give your learners a small taste of the business world by calculating percent error and percent increase. The resource provides several practice problems to give your mathematicians practice setting up the ratio to convert to percents....
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Tax, Commissions, Fees, and Other Real-World Percent Problems

For Teachers 7th Standards
Pupils work several real-world problems that use percents in the 11th portion of a 20-part series. The problems contain percents involved with taxes, commissions, discounts, tips, fees, and interest. Scholars use the equations formed for...
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Assessment
EngageNY

Mid-Module Assessment Task: Grade 7 Mathematics Module 4

For Students 7th Standards
Assess the ability of the class to solve percent problems with an assessment that covers a variety of percent problems from basic to multi-step. Pupils make connections between percent problems and proportional thinking to complete the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Estimating Percents

For Students 4th - 8th
In this math worksheet, learners complete 13 problems where they estimate the percents of shaded figures, fractions, and more. Examples are provided in this well-designed worksheet.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Finding Percentages

For Teachers 5th - 7th
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...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Population Problems

For Teachers 7th Standards
Find the percent of the population that meets the criteria. The 17th segment of a 20-part unit presents problems that involve percents of a population. Pupils use tape diagrams to create equations to find the percents of subgroups of the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Estimating Percents

For Students 5th - 8th
In this math worksheet, students complete 25 problems where they estimate the percentage of shaded figures, fractions of a whole, and by solving word problems which use percents.
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Activity
Teach Engineering

About Accuracy and Approximation

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
How accurate are robots? Groups draw lines by moving robots backwards and forwards by one rotation of the wheels. Using the appropriate formula, they determine the percent error in the length of the lines in relation to the calculated...
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

More or Less

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
How long can the cable get? A short performance task provides learners with information on the length of cables and the margin of error for each. They must determine the longest and shortest cable possible by splicing these cables.
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Scholastic

Study Jams! Finding a Fraction of a Set

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Finding a fraction of a number is just multiplication in disguise. Young mathematicians can interact with this lesson to practice using multiplication to find a percent of a whole number. The narrator goes over how to put the number over...
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Worksheet
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Random Samples: Estimating Population

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
With this estimating populations assignment, your class will learn about taking random population samples and calculating the average number of species in the samples to estimate the total population. Students use the given data to find...
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Assessment
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Mathematics Assessment Project

Middle School Mathematics Test 2

For Students 6th - 8th
A 13-page test with two 40-minute sections covers multiple years of math content. It incorporates applied problems and mathematical analysis.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Science Fair Space

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students determine the most equitable way to share space and cost between three schools for a fictional science fair. Given a diagram, a word problem, and a data set, students analyze and explain the best way for all schools to share...
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Assessment
Noyce Foundation

Mixing Paints

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Let's paint the town equal parts yellow and violet, or simply brown. Pupils calculate the amount of blue and red paint needed to make six quarts of brown paint. Individuals then explain how they determined the percentage of the brown...
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Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Sales Tax and Tip

For Teachers 7th Standards
Don't forget to tip your server. Future consumers learn how to calculate sales taxes and tips. Pairs use actual restaurant menus to create an order and determine the total bill, including taxes and tips.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Markup and Discount

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders observe and demonstrate how to calculate markups and discounts including markup percentages and discount percentages. They observe a teacher-led demonstration, then in pairs read scenarios and independently complete...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Selling Price

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work independently to complete a problem solving activity that involves percent. This lesson is designed to be used as an assessment following a unit on percents. Students are presented with a problem involving a store that is...
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App
Todd Bowden

Number Line

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Arrange these in order on a number line: 95% 1/3 .700 3/5 5/6 50% .200 Was that too easy? Don't worry! This app gradually gets more difficult.
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Assessment
Noyce Foundation

Parallelogram

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Parallelograms are pairs of triangles all the way around. Pupils measure to determine the area and perimeter of a parallelogram. They then find the area of the tirangles formed by drawing a diagonal of the parallelogram and compare their...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Is This Fair?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover how to convert fractions to decimals and percents. They play the role of a shopper to complete this activity.

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