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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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Lesson Plan
Willow Tree

Percents

For Students 7th - 10th Standards
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...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Markup and Markdown Problems

For Teachers 7th Standards
There is a 100 percent chance this resource will help pupils connect percents to financial literacy. Young mathematicians use their knowledge of percents to find markups and markdowns in financial situations in the seventh segment in a...
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Interactive3:08
Scholastic

Study Jams! Percents

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
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!
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Part of a Whole as a Percent

For Teachers 7th Standards
Pupils use visual models, numeric methods, and equations to solve percent problems. To complete the second installment of 20, they find the part given the percent and the whole, find the percent given the part and the whole, and find the...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Fluency with Percents

For Teachers 7th Standards
Pupils build confidence working with percents as they work several types of percent problems to increase their fluency. The resource contains two sets of problems specifically designed to build efficiency in finding solutions of basic...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Problem Solving When the Percent Changes

For Teachers 7th Standards
Use more than one whole to solve percent problems. The ninth installment in a 20-part series has pupils work percent problems in which they must determine two wholes. Individuals use double number lines to represent and solve the...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Counting Problems

For Teachers 7th Standards
Solving these percent problems is a matter of counting. Pupils find percents by counting the number of events that meet the criteria and the total number of possibilities. Participants create the ratio and convert it to a percent to...
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Worksheet
Central New Mexico Community College

Percent Word Problems

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
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...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Problem Solving Decisions: Choose a Method

For Students 5th - 8th
Walk your scholars through the process of finding percentages using this problem-solving instructional activity! A word problem asks students to figure out how many pieces of a puzzle are left, if the completed 750 pieces make up 60% of...
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Lesson Plan
Willow Tree

Percent of Change

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Your car decreases in value from $20,000 to $17,000. What percent of the value have you lost? Pupils answer word problems by determining the percent of change. 
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Assessment
Mathed Up!

Percentages

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Review a percentage of math skills. Designed to review for the General Certificate of Secondary Education Math assessment, the resource provides practice with a variety of percent problems. Items provide pupils problems ranging from...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Finding One Hundred Percent Given Another Percent

For Teachers 7th Standards
Class members solve problems to find the whole when given a percent. They  use double line numbers and factors of hundred to help break the 100 percent into equal segments. 
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Interactive
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NASA

Resolving 2-Plane Traffic Conflicts by Changing Speed—Problem Set E

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
What do you do to change arrival times of airplanes when a different route is not available? The fifth interactive in a series of six presents problems where pupils must find solutions to conflicts of safety rules. They must decide how...
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Workbook
Curated OER

Word Problem Practice Workbook

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Need worksheets that challenge your middle schoolers to apply their understanding of math? Problem solved! From integers, fractions, and percents, to algebra, geometry, and probability, over 100 pages of word problem worksheets are...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Percent of a Number: Rock Climbing

For Students 6th - 8th
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.
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Dana's House

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Your class is to find the percent of the lot that is not covered by a house. Make sure your pupils understand the problems before they begin. The lot is the whole of the percent problem and the house is the part. The exercise is good...
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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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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Percent Increase and Decrease

For Teachers 7th Standards
Increase the percent of pupils that are fluent in solving change problems with an activity that asks class members to look at problems that involve either increases or decreases and to express the change in terms of the percent of the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fractions, Decimals, and Percents Got You Down? "Tri" This!

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Have your class design their own mathematical study aids. Learners collaborate in groups on the design of tri-fold presentation describing the relationships between mathematical computations. Then, they write a business letter to the...
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Curated OER

Practice: Word Problems

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Congratulations, you've just hit the word problem jackpot! Covering an incredible range of topics from integers and fractions, to percents, geometry, and much more, this collection of worksheets will keep young mathematicians busy...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Percent of Change: The Pizza Conundrum

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Nine questions—multiple choice and fill in the blank—challenge mathematicians to solve money word problems. Looking closely at prices, scholars use a formula to identify percent increases and decreases based on an original and new price....
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Fractions as Percents: Baking Cookies

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
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...
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Lesson Plan
Math Worksheets Land

Markups and Markdowns Word Problems - Step-by-Step Lesson

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Math is used in real life, and this activity shows how with percent markups and markdowns. The page belongs to a four-part resource including guided practice and independent problem solving regarding percent problems. 

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