Kentucky Adult Education
Probability Lesson Plan
Roll the dice with this multimedia math instructional activity on probability. After first viewing a series of three short videos explaining probability, independent events, and dependent events, young mathematicians...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Unit 6 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 6)
Fifty-eight flashcards make up a set designed to reinforce math vocabulary. Within the set, you'll find bold-faced word cards as well as definition cards that offer a labeled example. Terms include base, percent, theoretical...
Virginia Department of Education
z-Scores
Just how far away from the mean is the data point? Pupils calculate the standard deviation for a set of data and find out how many standard deviations a point is away from the mean. The teacher leads a discussion on how to calculate...
Inside Mathematics
Sorting Functions
Graph A goes with equation C, but table B. The short assessment task requires class members to match graphs with their corresponding tables, equations, and verbalized rules. Pupils then provide explanations on the process they used to...
Inside Mathematics
Graphs (2006)
When told to describe a line, do your pupils list its color, length, and which side is high or low? Use a learning exercise that engages scholars to properly label line graphs. It then requests two applied reasoning answers.
Bonneville
Home Energy Audit
Reduce energy consumption and save some money at the same time! The third of seven installments in the A Community Powered by Renewable Energy unit focuses on energy use in the home. Learners investigate the energy needs of small and...
Curated OER
Ecological Cycles Part 1
Knowing about the hydrologic cycle is the first step to understanding the carbon cycle. Upper graders discuss the earth's water content, polar ice caps, and the concept of the ecological cycle as it applies to carbon, nitrogen, and other...
Illinois Valley Community College
STEM Activities for Middle School Students
Use STEM activities within the class to provide connections to concepts. The resource includes activities that range from working with buoyancy to building rockets and launching them. Other activities involve the engineering design...
Inside Mathematics
Rhombuses
Just what does it take to show two rhombuses are similar? The assessment task asks pupils to develop an argument to show that given quadrilaterals are rhombuses. Class members also use their knowledge of similar triangles to show two...
Curated OER
Percent-Decimal-Fraction Chart Worksheet
In this percent-decimal-fraction worksheet, students complete a table where one component is given and they find the other two missing equivalent figures, a percent, a decimal or a fraction. The problems on this worksheet are at an 8th...
Helping with Math
Percentages: Calculating Percent - 2
Here is a worksheet on which math classes practice calculating the percentage of different numbers. Some of the percentages involve decimals, so this would not be an assignment for first-time percent calculators! You can print the...
Curated OER
Fractions, Decimals, Percents
In this fractions, decimals, and percents worksheet, learners read about the process of converting fractions, decimals, and percents. Students then complete conversion charts independently.
Curated OER
Estimation With Percents
Students examine percents. In this percents lesson, students will estimate percentages. Using advertisements from a newspaper, students problem solve to determine the final price of a sale item.
Curated OER
What proportion of rough rice is prepared into consumable rice?
Fifth graders find the percentages of rough rice that can be eaten. In this percentage lesson, 5th graders look at 100 lbs. of rough rice and see the steps needed before it can become the white rice sold in stores. They find the...
Curated OER
Bits and Pieces - More About Percents - Online Manipulatives
In this online percentages activity, students access the Library of Virtual Manipulatives web site and open the percentage tool. They use the online tool to complete 8 multi-step questions making graphical representations and finding...
Curated OER
Percent Notation
In this algebra worksheet, students divide circles into equal portions as they explore percents and decimals. They convert between decimals and fractions using ratio and proportion. There are 8 questions.
Curated OER
Math--Fractions and Percentages
In this fractions and percentages worksheet, students write down the percentages of a pie chart and change then into fractions. Students change 7 fraction sentences into a percentage sentence.
Curated OER
Four Decimal, Fraction, and Percent Activities
In this fraction worksheet, students solve problems presented in four different activities. The activities cover percentages, fractions, decimals, currency exchange, and value added tax. A card "game" is one of the...
Curated OER
Hunt the Fact Monster Hunt #23
In this internet research activity, students answer three multiple choice and seven short answer questions by using the Fact Monster search engine.
Curated OER
Translate Word Phrases and Sentences into Equations
Use this video to show your learners an example of how to translate word phrases into an equation to solve a real-world problem. The presenter begins with a review of how to use cross products to solve a proportion, including how to do...
Curated OER
Practice Test: Chapter 7 - Percents
In this percent activity, students convert between fractions, decimals and percents. They create a model of each number represented. This six-page activity contains 25 multi-step problems.
Curated OER
Go Figure! Using Percents in the Real World
Sixth graders solve sales tax problems. In this solving sales tax problems lesson plan, 6th graders find the sales tax on various items. Students are given a list of expenses that a family spent on vacation before...
Curated OER
What is a Percent? (A)
In this finding percents instructional activity, students read the two numbers for each problem and then determine what percent of the second number is the first number. Students solve forty problems.