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David Pleacher
Candy Math Fun
Few things can motivate children to learn like the promise of a sweet and tasty treat. Given a bag of M&M®s, Skittles®, or other colorful candy, students first predict the contents of the bag before counting the pieces,...
Pedago Net
Acing Math
Deal me in! Elementary and middle school classes will love this selection of math games, all involving a deck of cards. From fractions to exponents to rounding up and down, the games cover such a variety of skills that your classroom...
Newspaper Association of America
Power Pack: Lessons in Civics, Math, and Fine Arts
Newspaper in Education (NIE) Week honors the contributions of the newspaper and is celebrated in the resource within a civics, mathematics, and fine arts setting. The resource represents every grade from 3rd to 12th with questions...
Making Math More Fun
Making Math More Fun
Address fundamental math skills with a series of fun math board games. With 25 games that focus on addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, place value, and percentages, kids will quickly find that math practice is their favorite...
101 Questions
Square Partitions
Challenge your classes while developing their problem-solving skills. A square is divided neatly into four equal triangles by its diagonals until one diagonal is moved from a vertex to the midpoint of one side. Now, scholars must devise...
Illustrative Mathematics
Miles to Kilometers
Can your mathematicians come up with an easy way to convert miles to kilometers? Start by asking learners to write an algebraic expression for each of the descriptions given. Once they determine that they are both the same, ask...
Curated OER
Task: Grain Storage
Farming is full of mathematics, and it provides numerous real-world examples for young mathematicians to study. Here, we look at a cylinder-shaped storage silo that has one flat side. Given certain dimensions, students need to determine...
Other
Tema De Porciento
In Spanish. Online lesson on percents, converting fractions to percents, and practice problems for students to complete. Solutions are included.
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: What's a Percentage?
Use this site to learn about percents, and how they relate to decimals and fractions with this interactive online lesson. You will learn about percents, convert percents into fractions and decimals, and find equal parts of a whole.
Teaching Treasures Publications
Teaching Treasures: Year Seven Math (Page 2)
Explore fractions in geometric shapes using this interactive worksheet. Concepts include ratio, fractions to decimals, decimals to fractions, and percent. Immediate feedback is given to responses.
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Blonde Hair Brown Eyes
A problem involving fractions to determine the fraction of people in a class that have brown eyes.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Converting a Percent to a Fraction
This site explains how to change a percent to a fraction, then offers problems and games to practice this skill.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Math Challenges for Families
Students, teachers, and parents alike will enjoy this challenging math site. It contains a clever brain teaser section plus creative problems related to algebra, geometry, measurement, numbers, statistics, and probability. A Spanish...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Convert Fraction to Percent
The learning activity examines how to convert a fraction to a percent. The resource consists of calculator steps, explanations, and examples with solutions.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Converting a Fraction to a Percent
The learning game has students practice converting a fraction to a percent. Participants get to see a percent score of correct answers, as well as running totals of correct and incorrect answers.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Converting a Percent to a Fraction
Learners practice percent conversions to fractions. The resource displays the percent score of correct answers, as well as running totals of correct and incorrect answers.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Convert Percent to Fraction
Learn how to convert percents to fractions by following simple steps and viewing several examples.
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Percent of a Number
This Math Page tutorial explains how to find the percent of a number and features a practice to check comprehension.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Calculating Sales Tax
Dr. Math is asked about calculating sales tax. A quick and easy to follow explanation of how it works using fractions, decimals, ratio, and percent.
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Multiple Percents
Have you ever seen an item that you wanted on sale for 15% of its original price? Have you tried to figure out what the sale price would be? Using this interactive lesson from T.V. 411, you can learn to calculate discounts with percentages.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Teaching Percentages
Students can brush up on percentage skills with this lesson and calculate percentages using the "Percent Tricks method." For students to successfully use this method, they must have the ability to multiply and divide whole numbers.
Math Medics
S.o.s. Math: Percent to Fraction
Explains step-by-step how to change a percent to a fraction. Gives examples and exercises to practice this skill.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Percents to Fractions
This site explains how to convert percents to fractions. Games and exercises are provided to practice the skill.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Percentages
The learning activity investigates percentages. Topics examined are converting percents to decimals, converting percents to fractions, and the percentage difference. Links to additional resources and a percentage calculator are included.