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Calculate Percentages

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Sixth and seventh graders study the concept of finding the percent of a number. They calculate the percent of any given number. Pupils describe ways to use calculating percents in their daily life, and change percents into decimals,...
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Math Centers

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders review the concepts of fractions: improper, mixed, proper, like denominator addition. They then review the concepts of creating pie graphs using a percent circle using manipulatives.
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The Yo-Yo Problem

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What do yo-yos and pennies have to do with linear equations? Learn about writing and solving linear equations while considering the Yo-Yo Problem and Penny Pattern Exploration from the High School Math Project. Learners utilize algebra...
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Paper Toss Shootout

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore the concept of percentages. In this math lesson plan, students throw paper at wastebaskets as if shooting a basketball in a hoop. Students shoot the paper a given amount of times and then calculate their shooting...
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The World in a Classroom

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students calculate percentages of different kinds of people in the world. In this diversity lesson plan, students will see the percentages of different people and different incomes based on if the world only had 100 people in it.
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Carbon Dioxide Increases

For Students 7th - 10th
In this atmospheric carbon dioxide worksheet, students use a graph of the Keeling Curve showing the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide since 1958 to solve 6 problems. They determine the rate of increase, the find the percentage of...
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It's a Sale!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make good decisions about making purchases of items on sale and explain how percentages effect cost.
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Four Decimal, Fraction, and Percent Activities

For Students 6th - 10th
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...
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Income Levels & Social Class: Is It All About Cash?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students graph data and interpret that data after reading information about lifestyles and income levels. They calculate percentages, set up spreadsheets and calculate columnar data.
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Math Probability Lesson Plans

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
"Defy the Pig" is a fun dice game that can be a great warm up activity to math probability lesson plans.
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Percentage Review

For Students 5th - 8th
In this percentages worksheet, learners convert fractions with numbers up to 10 into percentages. Students complete 13 percentage problems.
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Percent/Percentage Word Problems (Part 3)

For Students 9th
In this Algebra I worksheet, 9th graders solve percent application problems, including percent of increase and decrease.  The one page interactive worksheet contains seven problems.  Answers and a hint are provided. 
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Determining Percentages- Elementary

For Students 4th - 5th
In this math worksheet, students find the percentages of whole numbers in 10 problems. They complete problems such as 5%of 21=_.
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Worksheet 8: Absolute Percentage Error

For Students Higher Ed
In this absolute percentage error worksheet, students estimate the maximum absolute error in computing the volume and area of a cube or a sphere. They use differentials to estimate the value of roots. This one-page worksheet contains...
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Numbers Based on Percentage

For Students 7th - 8th
For this percentage worksheet, learners examine written statements and solve to find the percent of a number or find a missing number when given a percent. This one-page worksheet contains ten problems.
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Math Assessment

For Students 5th - 6th
For this math worksheet, students complete the test that focuses upon the skills of completing basic calculations, fractions, and percentages.
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Calculating Total From Percents

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Using this short review of finding a percentage of a number, learners can practice important skills. There are twelve questions on this worksheet.
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Valentine Marbles

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
if you've ever had to guess how many items were in a jar, then this problem is for you! With a big jar full of red and white marbles, does picking a sample of 16 allow your learners to get a good estimate on the percentages of each...
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It Has Been Rubbish For Years

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students are presented with the problems of percentages and focus upon numbers in contrast to 100. They calculate problems with money and are engaged with the use of games as a teaching tool. Students also interpret data as presented in...
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The Marble Jar

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A jar is filled with 1,500 marbles and customers of a bank can enter a contest to guess the correct percentage of blue marbles. How can an employee at the bank estimate the actual percentage without physically counting all 1,500 marbles?...
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Golf Balls

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Land on the green with a fun resource. A short performance task asks pupils to consider the volume of containers that hold golf balls. They determine the percentage of empty space of the container for different numbers of golf balls.
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M&Ms Count and Crunch

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers practice skills involving statistics and probability by making predictions on number of each color candy in one pound bag of M&Ms. They record both guesses and actual quantities, calculate percentages, and create bar...
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Bar Graphs and Survey Questions- Internet Access

For Teachers 5th - 7th
In this graphing and data collection activity, students examine a bar chart that show data collected from 1998 - 2006 that shows the percentage of households that have Internet access. They answer questions based on the chart and make...
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Patterns of Association (Using Data Tables) - Guided Lesson

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
The activity belongs to a four-part resource that applies percentages to data tables. The page has three practice problems that continues with the development of this topic.

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