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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: A Tip on Tipping

For Students 6th - 8th
This TV 411 segment features a lesson from Question Man on how to informally calculate 15% tips at restaurants.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: What's in That Box of Cookies, Anyway?

For Students 6th - 8th
In this video segment from TV 411, learn how to read nutrition labels on food containers and calculate the calorie content of different serving amounts.
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PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: The Math of Trash: Percents and Proportions

For Students 6th - 8th
Discover how percents and proportions help explain issues like climate change, composting, and zero waste in this video from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students estimate the percentage of various types of trash that...
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PBS

Pbs: Real Life Math: Physical Trainer

For Students 6th - 8th
The general manager of a fitness center explains how numerical calculations, percentages, and ratios are critical to his job in this video from KAET. In the accompanying classroom activity, students explore percentages, fractions, and...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Picturing Percents

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students represent percents on a 10 X 10 grid. They use the grid and the calculator to generate patterns that lead to methods for calculating percentages.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Be All You Can Be for Minimum Wage? (Educator Page)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson ask students to calculate the percentage change in military strength over the last two decades, hypothesize economic (and non-economic) explanations for these changes, test hypothetical explanations by reading an economic...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Be All You Can Be for Minimum Wage? (Student Page)

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson ask students to calculate the percentage change in military strength over the last two decades, hypothesize economic (and non-economic) explanations for these changes, test hypothetical explanations by reading an economic...
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Microsoft

Microsoft Education Virtual Tour: Batter Up!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This downloadable (2.7 MB Microsoft PowerPoint file) project helps students apply their knowledge of fractions and decimals to the game of baseball. They compute batting averages and hitting percentages and participate in a simulated...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Election Night With Percent

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The students will be working primarily with the concept of % of a number. They will calculate the number of people expected to vote when given the population and % of registered voters along with historical data on percentage of voter...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is an Apr by Better Money Habits

For Students 9th - 10th
You may have seen the term APR, or annual percentage rate, used in reference to everything from mortgages and auto loans to credit cards. In this piece, we look at credit card APRs which you've probably seen listed on your monthly...
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eFunda

Apr Calucaltor

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is an interactive site that will calculate the APR when given the loan amount, the extra cost, the interest rate, and the number of months of the loan.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Credit Cards

For Students 9th - 10th
Thinking about opening a credit card? This resource gives consumers information about maneuvering the credit process. Use the interactive guide to learn more about terms and fees offered by credit cards. Also, open the online calculator...
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AAA Math

Aaa Math: All About Percents and Ratios

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This AAA Math tutorial covers calculating percents, relationships of percents to fractions and decimals, and uses of percents.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Counting Activity With Percents

For Students 9th - 10th
The learning activity explores percents. Students calculate percents using a table and answer questions on the math concept.
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Cuemath

Cuemath: Discounts

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive guide for learning all about discounts with definitions, how to calculate a discount, solved examples, and practice questions.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Put Out the Flags

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Sharpen your logic and percent skills while working on this challenge. A strategy for solving the problem and the solution are available from links on the left.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: More Application of Percents

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Get independent practice with more applications of percents to real world situations. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Arithmetic: Conversion of Decimals, Fractions, and Percent

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert decimals to percents, percents to decimals and fractions, and fractions to percents.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Arithmetic: Conversion of Decimals, Fractions, and Percent

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identify equivalent ratios as fractions, decimals, and percents.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Design Your Own Bedroom

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Many students dream of designing their ideal bedroom. In this exercise, students will be required to limit their designs by size (as a specific volume) and price (a specific amount). They must design the floor plan, including furniture...
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: The Magic Number and the Hepta Tree

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Use your calculator to help you solve this challenge at this one page website. You can check your solution with only one click of the mouse.
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Ged Middle School Mathematics Practice Problems: Finding the Percent of Change

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Eight questions to practice calculating percent decrease or increase. Both math problems and word problems included.
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Free Math Help

Free Math Help: Batting Average

For Students 3rd - 8th
Here is an explanation about how to calculate a player's batting average.
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Fun Brain

Funbrain: Penguin Waiter

For Students 5th - 8th
Calculate the correct tip to leave the waiter.