Curated OER
Meatiest States: Graph Problem Solving
In this graph problem solving activity, students analyze a graph that shows commercial red meat production in five states. Students answer 5 word problems using the data on the graph.
Curated OER
Learning Lesson: Measure the Pressure -- The "Wet" Barometer
Students use simple objects to create their own barometer. They have five days to build it and ten days to observe and collect data. They examine thunderstorm safety tips to end the lesson.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Percents 2
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...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Percents 1
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...
CK-12 Foundation
Braingenie: Whole Number Percentage Calculations Without Units
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this activity, students are to determine the percent of a number. Watch a video for additional help and answer a practice problem.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes Percents and Wholes
The five question quiz assesses learners on percents and wholes. Hints are available to help students solve the problems.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Finding Percents
Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100; solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive...
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Finding the Percent of a Number
This lesson explains how to find the percent of a whole number. Gives practice and games to practice this skill.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Fire: Estimating Percent
This interactive activity allows the student to visually practice estimation skills by estimating the number of trees and the percent of trees burned in a forest fire. There are 3 levels that provide estimating practice for large and...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Generating Equivalent Forms of Rational Numbers
Given information about a rational number in one form (fraction, decimal, or percent) in a real-world context such as financial mathematics, students will generate an equivalent rational number in a different form.
Doina Popovici
Math Play: Changing Fractions and Decimals to Percents
This Millionaire Game challenges students to convert fractions and decimals to percents. Students will use decimal notation with denominators of 10 and 100 and convert rational numbers to decimals using long division.
Other
Quick Math: Numbers Percentages
This QuickMath activity changes percentages to decimals or fraction and vice versa. It also calculates a certain percent of a number or vice versa.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2: Algebra Properties
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of the Properties of Algebra. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1: Algebra Properties
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of properties. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It" button and the...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Put Out the Flags
Sharpen your logic and percent skills while working on this challenge. A strategy for solving the problem and the solution are available from links on the left.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Finding Percents
Get independent practice working with finding percents. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of mixed numbers and improper fractions. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Subtracting Mixed Numbers With Renaming
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of subtracting mixed numbers with renaming. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Dividing Mixed Numbers
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of dividing mixed numbers. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It"...
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: What's a Percentage?
Use this site to learn about percents, and how they relate to decimals and fractions with this interactive online lesson. You will learn about percents, convert percents into fractions and decimals, and find equal parts of a whole.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Mixtures
This activity will help students develop their understanding of percents and proportional reasoning by solving mixture problems. Working with two piles of circles the student determines the number in each pile that will be colored. In...
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Percents Defined
Learn how to calculate percent as a rate per 100 in this video from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students model percent with a 10 x 10 grid. After watching the video, they create a design or picture on a 10 x 10 grid,...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Percents Grade 8
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] recognize and write percents as part of a whole out of 100.