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Quick Math: Percentages
This section will explain how to apply algebra to percentage problems.
Crescent Public Schools
The Internet Science Room: Percentage Composition and Empirical Formulas
Students learn how to find percentage composition, the percentage of a formula mass represented by each element. Percentage composition compares the mass of one part of a substance to the mass of the whole.
Math Drills
Math Drills: Percents Worksheets
Download these worksheets to sharpen your percent calculation skills. Sheets focus on the percentage of a number, percentage rate, and percentage increase/decrease.
Iowa State University
Iowa State University: Amount of Water in a Crystalline Solid Hydrate
This tutorial is linked to a computer simulation and helps strengthen student's understanding of percentage yield.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Prehistoric Climate Change and Why It Matters Today
Introduce students to environmental issues by studying a time of rapid global warming that occurred 50 million years ago. Lessons, video segments and interactive activities will engage students as they learn about average annual...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Estimator Quiz
This activity allows the student to practice estimating the results of addition multiplication and percentage problems. The activity has 3 levels of challenge.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Be All You Can Be for Minimum Wage? (Student Page)
This lesson ask students to calculate the percentage change in military strength over the last two decades, hypothesize economic (and non-economic) explanations for these changes, test hypothetical explanations by reading an economic...
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Solving Problems "By the Hundreds"
The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute site contains various math exercises relating to percentage and consumer-related problems. An explanation of sales tax, a related problem and answer are given.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is an Apr by Better Money Habits
You may have seen the term APR, or annual percentage rate, used in reference to everything from mortgages and auto loans to credit cards. In this piece, we look at credit card APRs which you've probably seen listed on your monthly...
The Math League
The Math League: Percent and Probability: What Is a Percent?
This site defines a percent, explains it as a fraction and decimal, and shows how to estimate a percentage.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Odds Probability Calculator
Convert stated odds to a decimal value of probability and a percentage value of winning and losing. This calculator will convert "odds for winning" an event or "odds against winning" an event into percentage chances of both winning and...
Science Struck
Science Struck: A Simple Guide on How to Calculate Theoretical Yield
Explains vocabulary used when talking about the yield of a chemical reaction and models how to calculate the theoretical and the percentage yield in an example problem.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Tip Calculator
Calculate a tip or gratuity and get the total amount to pay. Enter your meal or dinner cost along with the tip percentage. If you are splitting the cost at a restaurant among several people you can divide by the number of people to get...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Spending Habits: Tightwads vs. Spendthrifts
Do you have a hard time hanging on to your money or do you have a harder time letting it go? This project shows you how to conduct a simple survey to measure how people manage their money. Find out what percentage of your classmates are...
eSchool Today
E School Today: Your Cool Basics on Water Shortage
Despite seventy percent of the world's surface being covered with water, there is a potential shortage of this natural resource. Only a small percentage is fresh water and much of that is inaccessible or threatened. Learn about fresh...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Proect Ideas: Investigating Inattentional Blindness
The goal of this human behavior science fair project is to investigate inattentional blindness and visual perception and see what percentage of a test population notices an unexplained object in a video. The Science Buddies project ideas...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: From Gas to Rust: Measuring the Oxygen Content of Air
Earth's atmosphere, the ocean of air that blankets the planet, is mostly nitrogen and oxygen, with small amounts of other gases. How much oxygen is present in air at sea level? Is air high up in the Appalachians or Rockies? Atop Mount...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Is That Cat Fat?
There are over 58 million overweight cats and dogs in the United States alone. In this science project you will determine what percentage of the pets you know are overweight and how their weights compare to weight of pets throughout the...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Are You Left or Right Sided?
Our brains are split into two parts, right inside our head. One half is the left brain and the other half is the right brain. Each side of your brain controls different parts of your body and most people are more dominant controlling one...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Processed Cheese
The goal of this cooking and food science fair project is to understand how processed cheese is made, and to determine which percentage of emulsifying salt produces the best processed cheese. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Porosity
Soils are made of particles of different types and sizes. The space between particles is called pore space. Pore space determines the amount of water that a given volume of soil can hold. Porosity is the percentage of the total volume of...
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Ady.org: Are Parents and Teens Talking About Sex?
This article provides the percentages of parents and teens that talk about sexual relations, why some teens choose not to talk about it, and how it impacts their lives. This site is important for both parents and teens because lack of...
English Club
English Club: Vocabulary: Cloze Games: Business 1
Choose from a word bank to complete ten sentences about terms related to money. Hints are available if needed, and a percentage score is displayed once answers are submitted.
Biz Move
Biz Move: Methods of Planning and Allocating Your Advertising Budget
This article from BizMove.com describes various methods (percentage of sales or profits, unit of sales, objective and task) for intelligently establishing an advertising budget and suggests ways of applying budget amounts to get the...
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