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Learning Decimals and Percents

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study about decimals, percents, how to change fractions into decimals, and how to change decimals into percents. After completing a few examples, students complete the worksheet.
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Percents Less Than One and Greater Than 100

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders express numbers as percents greater than 100 and less than one. In this lesson on percents, 6th graders work in groups with real life scenarios to develop an understanding on percentages greater than 100 and less than one....
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Converting Fractions, Decimals and Percents

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners convert between fractions, decimals and percents. In this algebra lesson, students reduce and rewrite the same quantity three different ways. They relate percents, decimals and fractions to the real world.
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It's a Family Affair!

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders review the relationship between fractions, decimals, and percentages. In this fraction lesson, 6th graders turn fractions into decimals using division and move the decimal for a percentage. They complete a corresponding...
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Fractions, Decimals to Percents

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders convert fractions and decimals to percents. Using measuring cups, 7th graders model fraction/percent equivalents. They discuss how to change a decimal to a percent. Using the white boards, students review the different...
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What Does Percent Have to Do With It?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders go shopping for a real life experience involving percent. They explore the concepts of sales tax and discount prices.
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Number Manipulation

For Students 8th - 9th
In this number manipulation worksheet, students solve 4 different types of problems that include number manipulation. First, they use division, multiplication, addition, or subtraction to make each set of numbers into equations which...
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Calculating Impervious Cover in the City of Austin

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use GIS to calculate park impervious cover in Austin, TX. They consider that there are different types of impervious cover from hard, packed dirt to cement paving. Students consider the limitations of data in several areas...
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Bits and Pieces: Fractions Greater Than One

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students compare fractions. In this fraction worksheet, students examine the number line. Using the Internet, they explore models of numbers greater than one. Students complete multiple-choice worksheets.
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the Holocaust: the Life of a Jew

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers describe in detail the harsh conditions that the Jews were faced with. They practice their writing skills by keeping a daily journal and identify how their lives have been influenced by the Holocaust.
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Percentages Introduction

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this percentages learning exercise, students color 25% of 100 small squares blue, 35% red and 30% yellow. Students figure out how many squares they have left and then what percent of the 100 squares are left. Students then work out 5...
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Math Mammoth

Decimal Place Value

For Students 5th
In this mathematics worksheet, 5th graders write each of the written form into a number form. Then they name the place value that has been underlined in the number. Students also write each decimal number into its normal form.
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Number: Percentages

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars practice and then have a race to calculate percentage and fractional parts. In this percent and fraction instructional activity, students start with 1% and work their way up.  After each practice a quick race...
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Raytheon

Probability, Percent, and Proportion

For Students 6th - 8th
In this probability and predictions learning exercise, students read 1 page of facts, then solve 8 pages of problems related to probability, with answers keys included.
Organizer
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Analysis of Soda Taste Test Data

For Students 6th - 12th
In this analysis instructional activity, students are given the raw date from a soda taste test experiment. Students use that data to complete a graphic organizer and to answer 8 questions.
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Bits and Pieces I

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine making smaller parts out of fractions and decimals. In this online interactive fractions, decimals, and percents lesson, 6th graders represent fractions with denominators of ten. Students then represent powers of 10...
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Foul Shots

For Students 7th - 11th
In this secondary mathematics instructional activity, learners determine a basketball player’s percent accuracy and the number of foul shots he must make in order to raise his average to 50%.   The one page instructional...
Worksheet
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Stoichiometry

For Students 10th - 12th
For this stoichiometry worksheet, students use balanced equations for chemical reactions to determine the percent yield and the mass of product produced. This worksheet has five problems to solve.
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Integrating Mathematics into Literature

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
You class will read Cucumber Soup by Vickie Leigh Krudwig as an anticipatory set for this lesson on ratios. They make models of the insects in the story and then use them as a source of data for this ratio and proportion lesson. This...
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The Stock Market

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the loss and gain made in the stock market as they invest a sum of money and report the results as percentages instead of points.
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Go To The Head of the Cloud

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars pretend they are water droplets traveling through the water cycle. Using their text, they discover the steps in the cycle and the different paths water can take. They write a report about their journey through the water...
PPT
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Calculating Probabilities: Introduction

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Introduce your class to a sure-fire method for calculating probabilities. The method is described alongside several examples, then put into practice with a series of probability questions for the class to solve. This would be a great...
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One Size Fits All, Part 1

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Can you tell how tall someone is just by looking at their feet? In this activity, young mathematicians measure their height, arm span, and foot size, graph their findings, and answer questions about how these measurements are related....
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I Want a Job in Agriculture

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Upper graders explore agriculture careers. They brainstorm possible careers in the agricultural field and choose a career of interest to them.  Everyone writes a paper about different aspects of this career using the six traits of...

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