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Percent Increase and Decrease
Increase the percent of pupils that are fluent in solving change problems with an activity that asks class members to look at problems that involve either increases or decreases and to express the change in terms of the percent of the...
Illustrative Mathematics
The Price of Bread
As part of an initiative to strengthen our young adults' financial understanding, this problem explores the cost of bread and minimum wage since the 1930s. Learners are asked to find the percent increase from each year and compare it...
Mathematics Assessment Project
Increasing and Decreasing Quantities by a Percent
As part of a study of percent and percent change, learners first complete an assessment task with several percent change problems. They then complete an activity using cards to create a diagram expressing percent increases and decreases...
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Percent Error and Percent Increase - Step-by-Step Lesson
Half a foot difference may not mean much, but converting that to an 8% change puts it into perspective for young minds. The lesson discusses the idea of converting information into percents to discover errors made and how much it...
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Percent Error and Percent Increase - Independent Practice Worksheet
Give your learners a small taste of the business world by calculating percent error and percent increase. The resource provides several practice problems to give your mathematicians practice setting up the ratio to convert to percents....
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Percent Word Problems
Take young mathematicians' understanding of percents into the real world with this series of word problems. Involving a variety of contexts from calculating scores on math tests and savings account interest, to determining sale prices...
Granite School District
7th Grade CCSS Math Vocabulary Word List
Address key vocabulary in the seventh grade Common Core Math Standards with this comprehensive list. A series of word cards is also provided that supports each term with images and examples, making this an excellent tool for teaching the...
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Fluency with Percents
Pupils build confidence working with percents as they work several types of percent problems to increase their fluency. The resource contains two sets of problems specifically designed to build efficiency in finding solutions of basic...
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Tax, Commissions, Fees, and Other Real-World Percent Problems
Pupils work several real-world problems that use percents in the 11th portion of a 20-part series. The problems contain percents involved with taxes, commissions, discounts, tips, fees, and interest. Scholars use the equations formed for...
CK-12 Foundation
Percent of Change: The Pizza Conundrum
Nine questions—multiple choice and fill in the blank—challenge mathematicians to solve money word problems. Looking closely at prices, scholars use a formula to identify percent increases and decreases based on an original and new price....
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Percent Error and Percent Increase - Matching Worksheet
Calculating percent change is a handy tool to understand sales, discounts, and other numerical changes we come across. Here, worksheet practices percent change and percent error with a variety of problems to let your learners see how it...
Illustrative Mathematics
Finding a 10% increase
A quick problem to test your mathematicians' knowledge on percent increase. Two different solutions are provided, mental math and computing. Ask your learners to include a description of what they did to supplement their answer.
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Percent Error and Percent Increase - Guided Lesson
When prices and numbers change, can you calculate by how much? Here is a worksheet that introduces the idea of percent change and percent error to calculator how much change the information goes through. Use the worked-out solutions to...
Illustrative Mathematics
Selling Computers
A quick activity to test your learners' knowledge of percent increase. When an electronic store needs a 30% increase in computer sales, your mathematicians must calculate how many computers they need to sell next month.
Illustrative Mathematics
Chess Club
When the membership in a chess club changes, it is your mathematicians' job to find out how many boys and girls are attending and the percent change from last year. The activity provides a great compound problem finding the different...
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Percent
Extend percent understandings to include percents less than one and greater than 100. A great lesson has pupils build upon their knowledge of percents from sixth grade. They convert between fractions, decimals, and percents that are less...
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Percent of Change
Your car decreases in value from $20,000 to $17,000. What percent of the value have you lost? Pupils answer word problems by determining the percent of change.
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Multistep Ratio and Percent Word Problems - Step-by-Step Lesson
What happens when you have a recipe and need to up the measurements? Here is a lesson plan that explains how to use ratios to convert measurements and percents with worked out problems. Also provided are additional resources and practice...
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Percentages
Review a percentage of math skills. Designed to review for the General Certificate of Secondary Education Math assessment, the resource provides practice with a variety of percent problems. Items provide pupils problems ranging from...
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Mid-Module Assessment Task: Grade 7 Mathematics Module 4
Assess the ability of the class to solve percent problems with an assessment that covers a variety of percent problems from basic to multi-step. Pupils make connections between percent problems and proportional thinking to complete the...
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End-of-Module Assessment Task: Grade 7 Mathematics Module 4
Asses the class to determine their knowledge of proportional relationships involving percents. Class members work through the nine-question assessment with a variety of percent problems. The multi-step problems involve simple interest,...
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Markups and Markdowns Word Problems - Guided Lesson
Show your shoppers that knowing how to calculate the percent increase or decrease of an item is a handy tool to know when they are looking for a good sale. Use as a quick three example introduction to the topic. The guided practice comes...
Illustrative Mathematics
Comparing Years
Who knew that the Egyptian, Julian, and Gregorian year were different lengths? Your mathematicians will! They will have to calculate the difference between the years in seconds and find the percent change. Using dimensional analysis,...
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Markup and Markdown Problems
There is a 100 percent chance this resource will help pupils connect percents to financial literacy. Young mathematicians use their knowledge of percents to find markups and markdowns in financial situations in the seventh segment in a...