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Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Number: Percent Increase and Decrease Calculator

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Students learn about the concept of percent change by exploring a tutorial. They can then test their knowledge by taking a ten question assessment that increases in difficulty as they correctly answer questions.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Percent Increase and Decrease

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find a quick, concise explanation of how to find what the percent of increase or decease is. Examples are given and clearly explained.
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Ratios & Percentages: Percentage Increase & Decrease

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn about percentage increase and decrease. The mathematics resource consists of examples and practice problems with answers.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Percents 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Twenty-five problems present a variety of percent topics: percents as fractions, improper, and mixed numbers, percents as decimals, simple interest, and percent of increase/decrease. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Chapter Test Applying Percents 14 Questions

For Students 6th - 8th
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking chapter test to assess your knowledge on percent applications. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. After completing the test students can click the "Check It" button and the correct...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Chapter Test Applying Percents 12 Questions

For Students 6th - 8th
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking chapter test to assess your knowledge on percent applications. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. After completing the test students can click the "Check It" button and the correct...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Chapter Test Ratio, Proportions, and Percent 20 Questions

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
The interactive assessment examines ratios, proportions, and percents. Students complete 20 questions created by Glencoe. Hints and solutions are included.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Percents 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Twenty-eight problems present a variety of percent topics: percents as fractions, improper, and mixed numbers, percents as decimals, simple interest, and percent of increase/decrease. They are given with each step to the solution...
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Math Drills

Math Drills: Percents Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th
Download these worksheets to sharpen your percent calculation skills. Sheets focus on the percentage of a number, percentage rate, and percentage increase/decrease.
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PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: Poverty Trends: What Does It Mean to Be Poor in America?

For Students 6th - 8th
Use math to learn about changes in US wealth distribution and poverty rate over time in this interactive from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students interpret the graphs and consider how the poverty rate spike following...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Arithmetic: Percent of Increase Grade 8

For Students 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find and understand the percent of increase.
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Teaching Percentages

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Purple Math

Purplemath: Basic "Percent Of" Word Problems

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Demonstrates how to set up and solve 'percent of' word problems such as 'What percent of 16 is 5?'.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Science Today West Nile Killing More People

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After studying the USA TODAY Snapshot? "West Nile killing more people,"students will compare the number of West Nile cases in the United States over the past three years. From the data, percent increases and decreases from year to year...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti: Is Leisure Time Really Shrinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will to organize data from the USA TODAY Snapshot, "Is leisure time really shrinking?," into two scatter plots and determine the quadratic model for each scatter plot. Students will determine if these graphs intersect and learn...
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Other

Ged Middle School Mathematics Practice Problems: Finding the Percent of Change

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Eight questions to practice calculating percent decrease or increase. Both math problems and word problems included.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.ee Discounted Books

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A performance task asking students to see two different ways to look at percentages, as an increase and as a decrease of an original amount.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Percents of Increase, Decrease, Discount

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this lesson with examples in planning instruction on percent of increase, decrease, and discount. In this resource, you'll find three questions with solutions on ways to determine percent.
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Math Planet

Math Planet: Algebra 1: Exponential Growth Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An exponential function is a nonlinear function that has the form of y=a*b^x, where a != 0, b > 0. An exponential function with a > 0 and b > 1, like the one above, represents an exponential growth and the graph of an...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Atmospheric Oxygen

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this feature, adapted from Interactive NOVA: Earth, students explore the relationship between oxygen concentration and the well-being of various organisms by simulating a change in oxygen levels and observing what happens.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Sales Tax

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students apply ratio, percent, and direct proportion in situations. Students solve problems involving percentages such as percent increase/decrease, tax, commission, and discount.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Percentages

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipcharts, students use the interactive tools to solve various rational number problems involving percentages (e.g., percent increase/decrease, tax, commission, and discount).