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Fuel Saving

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students explore the problem of percentages. Students find a given fraction or percentage of a quantity. Students devise and use problem solving strategies on problems explored.
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Play Ball

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students calculate baseball statistics and ball field dimensions. In this Pythagorean Theorem, percentages and metric conversion lesson plan, students are given formulas to find earned run and batting averages for White Sox baseball...
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Fractions

For Students 5th - 6th
In this fractions worksheet, students solve and complete 3 different types of problems. First, they complete the table shown with the correct percentage, fraction or decimal. Then, students find the measurements shown. In addition, they...
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Sale Price

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In this mathematics worksheet, young scholars identify how to find a sale price depending on what is being asked. They read a table that shows the cost and selling prices and complete the table to one decimal point. Then, students...
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Geometric Figures

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students compare, classify and calculate the area of geometric figures such as rectangles, squares, circles and triangles.
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Percent Applications

For Students 4th - 6th
For this percent applications worksheet, students complete a total of 10 problems that involve calculating percentages. A reference web site is given.
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Determining Percent Composition

For Students 9th - 12th
In this percent composition worksheet, students calculate the percent composition of compounds using their formula masses and masses of individual elements. They solve nine problems including calculating percent composition, finding...
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The Great Depression: What Would it be like today?

For Teachers All
Students calculate the percentage decline in factors affecting the quality of life such as wages and unemployment, from before the Depression to the beginning of the New Deal. Students then calculate what the same percentage decline for...
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Nutrients by the Numbers

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read and discuss an article on the amount of sugar in various food products. They compare the nutritional values of food products, calculate their daily intake of nutrients, analyze serving sizes, and compare/contrast their own...
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Unit Conversions

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In this unit conversions worksheet, students calculate and convert measurements from one unit to another. They complete 109 short answer and problem solving questions involving unit conversions.
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Mental Math in Percent Problems

For Students 8th - 9th
In this math worksheet, learners are given 21 percentage problems which they are to work out mentally. There are story problems, tables and simple conversion.
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M&Ms; Line Plots and Graphing

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students, using small individual bags of M&Ms, engage in activities including; estimating, sorting, graphing, mean, median, mode, fractions, percentage, and averaging.
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Compound Interest

For Students 8th - 10th
In this compound interest worksheet, students solve 3 problems after reading about compound interest. They determine the cost of the Apollo missions, they calculate inflation and the cost it would be to send man to the moon today and...
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Scaling Down Art

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners change the scale of a work of art using ratios, percentages, and proportions. While this is technically an art lesson, there is quite a bit of mathematics involved in converting to the correct scale.
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The Discount Is Right

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students estimate and calculate the sale price of five items using the original price and a designated rate of discount. They use percent to calculate the rate of discount and the original.
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A Fraction of the Possibilities

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Learners review the conversion of fractions to decimals, develop strategies to compare fractions perform complex calculations using ratio techniques similar to the construction of fractions.
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Math in Science-Rain Forest Math

For Students 9th - 11th
In this rain forest worksheet, students use different basic math skills to calculate the percentage of Earth covered by rain forests today compared to fifty years ago. They study the effects of how cutting down trees contributes to water...
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Hess' Law Data Sheet

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In this Hess' Law worksheet, young scholars write their data and calculations from the lab they performed on Hess's Law. They calculate the heat of reactions per mole of substances used and calculate the theoretical heat of reaction and...
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Ratio Basketball

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, in teams of four, practice shooting free throws while mentally converting the ratio of shots made to those thrown into a percent. They chart and record the ratio, decimal and actual percentage earned after each round.
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Charts and Graphs

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders interpret data into graphs and percentages.  In this organizing data lesson plan, 5th graders discuss bar, circle and line graphs.  Students complete bar graph and apply probability using the results.
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Baseball Relationships - Using Scatter Plots

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students use graphing calculators to create scatter plots of given baseball data. They also determine percentages and ratios, slope, y-intercepts, etc. all using baseball data and statistics.
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Finding the Area Under A Curve with Random Probability

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore the concept of area under a curve. In this area under a curve lesson, students find the area under a curve using the Monte Carlo method using random points and probability. Students calculate the area under the same...
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Epidemic Proportions

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars research epidemics that have devastated world population at various points in history. They share and calculate statistics obtained in their research and develop graphs comparing and contrasting how different epidemics...
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Trophic Ecology of Humans

For Teachers 9th - 11th
students analyze the place of humans among the tropic levels by observing what we eat. They calculate the caloric content of several foods commonly eaten by humans and calculate the total energy cost to grow, process, transport, store...