Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Election Night With Percent

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The students will be working primarily with the concept of % of a number. They will calculate the number of people expected to vote when given the population and % of registered voters along with historical data on percentage of voter...
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Solving Problems "By the Hundreds"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Chances Are

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students explore the likelihood of events using circle graphs and percentages in this interactive web lesson.
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Other

Treasury Direct: Money Math: Secret of Becoming a Millionaire [Pdf]

For Teachers 7th - 9th
This lesson focuses on understanding fractions, decimals and percentages as the math skills, and saving money and compounding interest as the economic skills. [PDF]
Website
InterLink Language Centers

Interlink Language Centers: Calculators and Converters

For Students 9th - 10th
Conversion calculators for English language learners. Includes calculators for converting temperature, currency, measurement, time, distances, and percentages. Java is required.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Arithmetic: Percent of Change Grades 8 9

For Students 8th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how to solve real-world problems involving percentages.
Website
Math Playground

Math Playground: Problem Solving Videos

For Students 6th - 8th
"Rated 'M' for middle school," Math TV invites you to tune in each week for videos of word problems being solved. Back episodes are available in subjects such as percentages, number sense, and fractions. Watch a problem worked out, then...
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Percents

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The practice problems examine percent and decimal forms. Word problems that investigate percentages are also included.
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University of Waterloo (Canada)

University of Waterloo: Ratios, Rate, & Percent [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The mathematics resource explores number sense and numeration. Learners examine ratios, rates, and percentages.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.ee Discounted Books

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A performance task asking young scholars to see two different ways to look at percentages, as an increase and as a decrease of an original amount.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Kendall's Vase Tax

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use percentage and addition to answer this real-world math performance task: Kendall bought a vase that was priced at $450. In addition, she had to pay 3% sales tax. How much did she pay for the vase?
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Moving With Mathematics [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students explore the concepts of fractions, percentages, and decimals by creating dances using locomotor and non-locomotor movements.
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Common Core Sheets

Common Core Sheets: Ratios and Proportional Relationships 6.rp.3c Worksheets

For Teachers 6th Standards
Print or create worksheets or flashcards to assess students' understanding of ratio concepts, useage of ratio reasoning, and percentages.
Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Understanding Probability

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson, students will learn what probability is; ways to express probability as a ratio, a decimal, and a percentage; and how to solve problems based on probability.
Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Fraction Models

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Explore different representations for fractions including improper fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, and percentages. Additionally, there are length, area, region, and set models.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is an Apr by Better Money Habits

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Fisher Boat: Multiplying Fractions

For Students 5th - 6th
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario on a fishing boat. Those skills include using everyday percentages as fractions and decimals, and multiplying simple fractions by whole numbers.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Fashion Store: Fractions and Decimals

For Students 5th - 6th
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario by picking out clothing. Those skills include calculating percentages using fractions and calculating the new cost of a product after a...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Group of Pyramids: Fractions and Graphs

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
On this interactive website, students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario at the pyramids. Those skills include showing percentages as fractions and decimals and interpreting data in a sector graph.
Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Jewish Population of Israel as Percentage of World Jewish Population

For Students 9th - 10th
The Central Bureau of Statistics presents a chart from 1882-2000 of the Jewish Population in Israel and across the world.
Interactive
Other

Quick Math: Numbers Percentages

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This QuickMath activity changes percentages to decimals or fraction and vice versa. It also calculates a certain percent of a number or vice versa.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: 49 Ers Web Quest Challenge

For Students 7th
From the San Francisco 49er's Museum Education Program which promotes STEAM projects, 7th graders explore statistics and percentages via a WebQuest.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Spending Habits: Tightwads vs. Spendthrifts

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Made From Dots

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Notice how magazines print photos using dots made up of percentages of only three colors and black. Try your hand at using percentages of cyan, magenta and yellow to match the magazine color displayed.

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