PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Tip on Tipping
This TV 411 segment features a lesson from Question Man on how to informally calculate 15% tips at restaurants.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: What's in That Box of Cookies, Anyway?
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.
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: The Math of Trash: Percents and Proportions
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...
PBS
Pbs: Real Life Math: Physical Trainer
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...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Picturing Percents
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.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Be All You Can Be for Minimum Wage? (Educator Page)
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...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Be All You Can Be for Minimum Wage? (Student Page)
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...
Microsoft
Microsoft Education Virtual Tour: Batter Up!
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...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Election Night With Percent
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is an Apr by Better Money Habits
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...
eFunda
Apr Calucaltor
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.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Credit Cards
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...
AAA Math
Aaa Math: All About Percents and Ratios
This AAA Math tutorial covers calculating percents, relationships of percents to fractions and decimals, and uses of percents.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Counting Activity With Percents
The learning activity explores percents. Students calculate percents using a table and answer questions on the math concept.
Cuemath
Cuemath: Discounts
A comprehensive guide for learning all about discounts with definitions, how to calculate a discount, solved examples, and practice questions.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Put Out the Flags
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.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: More Application of Percents
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Conversion of Decimals, Fractions, and Percent
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert decimals to percents, percents to decimals and fractions, and fractions to percents.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Conversion of Decimals, Fractions, and Percent
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identify equivalent ratios as fractions, decimals, and percents.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Design Your Own Bedroom
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...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: The Magic Number and the Hepta Tree
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.
Other
Ged Middle School Mathematics Practice Problems: Finding the Percent of Change
Eight questions to practice calculating percent decrease or increase. Both math problems and word problems included.
Free Math Help
Free Math Help: Batting Average
Here is an explanation about how to calculate a player's batting average.