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Percentage Game
In this math activity, students find the winning values of the percentages while playing the game of percents using the wheel organizer.
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Fraction Conversions
Students convert between fractions, decimals, and percents using money. For this conversions lesson plan, students play with a mock store in class.
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Shopping Spree
Students calculate discounts, sale price, and sale tax. In this consumer math lesson plan, students visit mock stores which have items for sale. Students calculate the final prices of items.
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Fraction Facts
Students are introduced to fractions, including operations with fractionsm converting fractions to decimals and percents. They are provided with activities that provide ample practice opportunities to reinforce the information from the...
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Unit 5: Worksheet 2 - Ratios
In this ratio worksheet, students investigate the relationship between the ratio of two sides of similar triangles. Afterwards, they convert fractions, decimals, and percents. This three-page worksheet contains approximately 35...
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Estimating With Fire
Students solve problems with percents, decimals and fractions. In this algebra lesson, students convert between fractions, percents and decimals. They estimate their answers and calculate their answer.
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Mental Methods
In this mental methods worksheet, middle schoolers determine the correct answer when multiplying fractions, percents and decimals. They use mental math to solve problems.
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Ratio and Proportion: Simplifying Ratios (1 of 2)
Here is a set of 24 pairs of numbers for which kids reduce the ratios to their simplest form. It is a simple and straightforward assignment, meant by the publisher to address CCSS.Math.Content.6.RP.3. Note, however, that it only requires...
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Stocks, Sauces, Soups
Written for a food and nutrition class, this resource has young chefs prepare chicken noodle soup. It begins by teaching vocabulary required for making soups, sauces, and stocks, as well as how to calculate percentages from given ratios....
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Restaurant Tipping Lesson
What do you do after a good meal, tip the server of course. The class calculates the appropriate tip to leave at a restaurant given certain bills. They identify the bill before and after tax and find the correct tip. A great way to put...
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CheMATHstry That Sticks Right to You
Pupils find the percent composition of sugar in the gum. In this chemistry lesson, students calculate percent error from the experiment. They use dimensional analysis to convert between units.
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Flow Rates of Faucets and Rivers
Young scholars work together to discover the flow rates of faucets and rivers. They relate their results to engineering and applied science concepts. They make predictions on the flow rate of a nearby river in their local community.
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Finding Total Given Part and Percentage
Students observe models of fractional parts. After writing the definitions of percent, part and whole, students use the calculators and computers to solve problems. Individually, they complete assigned problems where the convert the...
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Great Blobs of Jelly!
Students explain how zoo-plankton have an impact on the global process. In this ocean zoo-plankton lesson students calculate carbon flux and plankton densities.
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What Are We Listening To?
Students gather data from a web site on number of music albums sold by genre for the last two years. They convert these figures to fractions, decimals, and percents, and display the results in bar graphs and pie charts.
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Calorimetry Lab
In this calorimetry lab, students apply the information read about a calorimeter to conduct a scientific investigation. Students record their data in a chart. Students use the information from the chart to calculate specific heat of...
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Store Wide Sale
Learners practice figuring percentages by solving written shopping problems. In this consumer math lesson, students read several scenarios dealing with items on sale and must figure out the new price. Learners check their...
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Molarity, Excess and Percent Yield
In this molarity worksheet, students are given balanced equations and they are to calculate the mass or volume of reactants and products. Students calculate the theoretical, percentage, and actual yield for chemical equations. This...
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Percentages
In this Algebra I worksheet, 9th graders solve percent problems in which they are given the part and the whole and find the missing percentage. The one page interactive worksheet contains ten problems. Answers and a hint are...
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Can I Afford This Apartment?
Learners explore the concept of cost of living. In this cost of living lesson, students calculate the cost of living in an apartment along with other living expenses.
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Mixture Problems
Ninth graders explore the concept of mixture problems. In this mixture problem instructional activity, 9th graders use beads to resemble liquids. Students mix different amounts of beads to create different percentages of mixtures.
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Operations for Problem-Solving
Students examine a problem and develop the best method to arrive at the solution. In this math activity, students apply basic math skills by coming up with the correct steps to solve a word problem. ...
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Solving Algebraic Equations
In this algebraic equations instructional activity, 6th graders solve and complete 9 different word problems that include various types of equations. First, they find consecutive even numbers and write an equation to solve. Then,...
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A McTrip Back In Time
Students pretend they are time-travellers and travel back to 1954 to a McDonald's Restaurant to see how prices have changed. They need to add and subtract money with regrouping.