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PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: The Math of Trash: Percents and Proportions

For Students 6th - 8th
Discover how percents and proportions help explain issues like climate change, composting, and zero waste in this video from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students estimate the percentage of various types of trash that...
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Decimal to Percent Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Convert decimals to percentages with this calculator. Input a decimal number to convert both the whole number and decimal part of the number to a percent value.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: 1.3 Accuracy, Precision, and Significant Figures

For Students 9th - 10th
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Determine the appropriate number of significant figures in both addition and subtraction, as well as multiplication and division calculations and Calculate the percent...
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Conversions Rock

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will learn and reinforce skills for equivalent conversions of fractions, decimals and percents.
Activity
Other

The Education Center: Breakfast It's a Big Deal!

For Students 6th - 8th
This is a PDF worksheet where students use a real world scenario to find percents using proportional reasoning.
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Other

Pep: Hit the Deck: A Collection of Math Games

For Teachers K - 1st
This is a collection of math games ranging from Kindergarten to the upper elementary grades, using only an ordinary deck of playing cards. There are games covering addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, percents,...
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: How to Calculate Percentage Increase

For Students 5th - 8th
Explains and demonstrates how to calculate the percentage increase from year to year and how to calculate it using an Excel spreadsheet.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Real Life Math: Physical Trainer

For Students 6th - 8th
The general manager of a fitness center explains how numerical calculations, percentages, and ratios are critical to his job in this video from KAET. In the accompanying classroom activity, students explore percentages, fractions, and...
Activity
Math Slice

Math Slice: Percentage

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Practice finding the percent of a number by using a money simulation and dragging dollars from one box to the next to represent a percent of the whole.
Activity
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Determining Percent of Seed Germination

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this project, students will conduct an experiment to determine the percentage of seed that will germinate in a given time frame. Students will produce charts and graphs to represent the results algebraically. Mathematics and...
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Canadian Wildlife Federation

Hinterland Who's Who: Seabirds

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Website
United Nations

Stats Division: Indicators on Youth & Elderly Populations

For Students 9th - 10th
United Nations world population statistics on percent of youth and elderly in every country. Organized into a chart.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Making Predictions

For Students 9th - 10th
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of making predictions using surveys. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the...
Website
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Humidity, Evaporation, and Boiling

For Students 10th - 12th
Learn about the relationship between vapor pressure of water and capacity of air to hold water vapor, the relationship between relative humidity and partial pressure of water vapor in the air, and how to calculate vapor density,...
Article
A&E Television

History.com: How Levee Failures Made Hurricane Katrina a Bigger Disaster

For Students 9th - 10th
By the time Hurricane Katrina made landfall near Buras, Louisiana early on the morning of August 29, 2005, the flooding had already begun. In all, levees and floodwalls in New Orleans and surrounding areas fell in more than 50 locations...
Article
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Water Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Article
A&E Television

History.com: Hispanic History Milestones: Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
The American Hispanic/Latinx history is a rich, diverse and long one, with immigrants, refugees and Spanish-speaking or Indigenous people living in the United States since long before the nation was established. America's Hispanic...
Article
A&E Television

History.com: How Interstate Highways Gutted Communities and Reinforced Segregation

For Students 9th - 10th
America's interstate highway system cut through the heart of dozens of urban neighborhoods. Congress approved the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, authorizing what was then the largest public works program in U.S. history. It promised to...
Website
Digital History

Digital History: Social Mobility in the North

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the ideal of social equality in the North in the early and mid-1800s and determine if upward mobility was really a possibility for even unskilled laborers.
Primary
Son of the South

Son of the South: Christmas Dinner

For Students 9th - 10th
Using a Thomas Nast political cartoon from 1864, the author explains Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction, a plan that was never to be carried out.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Carbon 14 Dating, Variation 2

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task on exponential decay, students calculate what the amount of Carbon 14 left in a preserved plant will be as time passes and when one microgram will be all that is left. Aligns with F-LE.A.1.c.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Us Population 1790 1860

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students are shown a table of U.S. population data between 1790 and 1860 and are asked to explore whether exponential functions would be appropriate to model relationships within the data. The purpose of the task is to help...
Handout
State Library of North Carolina

N Cpedia: Latinos

For Students 9th - 10th
Latinos, also referred to as Hispanics, lived in North Carolina in relatively small numbers until the 1980s, when many people of Mexican and Central American descent began coming to the state in search of seasonal farm work. By the end...
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Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Ordering Fractions Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Compare and order fractions, integers, mixed numbers and decimals in ascending or descending order. Order fractions from least to greatest or from greatest to least.

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