Math Playground
Math Playground: Word Problem Videos
This lesson includes several sets of word problems for student practice. Each problem has a video that demonstrates how to reach the solution.
Math Slice
Math Slice: Percentage Worksheets
This tool allows you to create worksheets where students rewrite numbers as decimals, percents and fractions.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Shona
The Shona-speaking peoples comprise about 80 percent of the population of Zimbabwe, with significant groups in Mozambique. Most of what follows applies to the Shona in Zimbabwe, who have been extensively studied. There are now around...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Percentage of Your Brain Do You Use?
Two thirds of the population believes a myth that has been propagated for over a century: that we use only 10% of our brains. Hardly! Our neuron-dense brains have evolved to use the least amount of energy while carrying the most...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Getting Started With Rational Number Rampage App
Help students sharpen fraction, decimal, and percentage representation skills with three games: Rational Timer, Rational Match, and Percent Square. Build number sense and gain confidence with using fractions,decimals, and percents.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Rational Number Rampage App
This App helps students sharpen fraction, decimal, and percentage representation skills with three games: Rational Timer, Rational Match, and Percent Square.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Fracciones, Decimals Y Porcentajes
This interactive activity deals with the concepts of fractions, comparing fractions, all different arithmetic operations with fractions, converting a fraction to a decimal form and all different calculation with percents.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Percentages in Basketball
WNBA athletes discuss attendance at basketball games in terms of percentages in this video segment from TV 411.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages
A large collection of teacher resources dealing with fractions, decimals, and percentages at many different levels. There are worksheets, PowerPoints, smartboard presentations, Word, and pdf files for the teacher's use.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Charts Handling Data
[Free Registration/Login Required] Reading graphs fit together with this engaging, colorful flipchart analyzing pie charts, bar graph, percents, and fractions.
Teaching Treasures Publications
Teaching Treasures: Year Eight Nine Math (Page 1)
Review a variety of number sense skills using this interactive worksheet. Concepts include greatest common factor, lowest common multiple, rounding to the nearest thousandth, and determining percent. Answers can be checked immediately...
NumberNut
Number Nut: Working Beyond Arithmetic: Fractions and Decimals
Review fraction concepts in this succinct but detailed overview. The lesson highlights decimals, fractions, percentages, estimation, and rounding concepts with related vocabulary. Use the Reciprocal Fraction or Rounding games to practice...
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Comparing Fractions Calculator
Compare fractions to find which fraction is larger and which is smaller. You can also use this calculator to compare mixed numbers, compare decimals, compare integers, and compare improper fractions.
Canadian Wildlife Federation
Hinterland Who's Who: Seabirds
Get the facts about seabirds. This group of birds makes up about three percent of the various species, even though two-thirds of the Earth is covered in water. Learn some unique facts and characteristics of seabirds. Also included in...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Generating Equivalent Forms of Rational Numbers
Given information about a rational number in one form (fraction, decimal, or percent) in a real-world context such as financial mathematics, students will generate an equivalent rational number in a different form.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Fractions as Decimals Grade 7
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Write fractions and mixed numbers as terminating decimals
James Madison University
James Madison University: Igneous Rock Classification
This site explores the classification of igneous rocks. Content addresses classification based on color and texture, mineral composition, and chemical composition.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Analyzing Number Cube Sums
In this activity, students extend their understanding of theoretical probability and patterns. They use number cubes, to build awareness that a fraction and its decimal and percent representation on the calculator are "close," but not...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Water Resources
Freshwater accounts for only some 6 percent of the world's water supply, but is essential for human uses such as drinking, agriculture, manufacturing, and sanitation. As discussed above, two-thirds of global freshwater is found underground.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Probability: Measurement of Probability Grade 6
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Express probability in the form of a fraction, decimal, or percent.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Swazi
"Swazi" refers to the nation, tribe, or ethnic group, or an individual, "siSwati" to the language. SiSwati speakers are found in Swaziland, South Africa, and Mozambique. Within Swaziland, the population (the great majority of which is...
Crescent Public Schools
The Internet Science Room: Solution Concentration
Students have the opportunity to study examples and worked out example problems to further their understanding of chemical solution concentration.
Other
Allmath: Math Glossary
Are your students having difficulty understanding math terminology? Try this A-Z glossary on math related terms. It's quick, easy to read, and very complete.
Math Playground
Math Playground: Word Problem Database
This lesson contains many practice word problems categorized by operations and complexity.