Curated OER
Coal Supply and Demand
A hands-on simulation perfect for an economics lesson, young learners investigate the availability of different sources of natural energy (coal, natural gas, oil, solar, and nuclear) and how this availability affects their cost....
Math Worksheets Land
Finding Percentages (of 10s)
Here are five different versions of worksheets to calculate percentages of a number. Although there is no answer key, this resource takes the work out of making different versions of the same topic.
Radford University
Basketball Math
Shoot for a better knowledge of optimization strategies. During the first part of the task, scholars use given basketball shooting percentages for different players to predict the winner by examining systems of inequalities. For the...
Mathed Up!
Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages
After watching a video on making conversions, young mathematicians solve 16 math problems that involve making conversions of fractions to decimals and percents, decimals to fractions and percents, and percents to fractions and...
EngageNY
Percent and Rates per 100
What percentage of your class understands percents? Pupils learn the meaning of percents based upon rates per 100 in the 24th activity in a series of 29. They represent percents as fractions, decimals, ratios, and models. The scholars...
CK-12 Foundation
Prices Involving Sales Tax: Proper Tipping
A five-question interactive challenges mathematicians to find a correct tip and total amount using percents five, 12, and 18. A tool with moveable pieces assists participants in locating answers. Types of questions include...
K20 LEARN
If Our Classroom Were The World: Proportions And Percents
It's a small world after all. Classmates consider world population, languages, and religions in a cross-curricular lesson. Applying percentages and proportions, they determine what the class make-up would be if the class represented the...
CK-12 Foundation
Understand and Create Stem-and-Leaf Plots: Event Survey
A good lesson doesn't just grow on trees! Help your classes understand the concept of a stem-and-leaf plot using an interactive lesson. Learners first create a stem-and-leaf plot from a set of data by dragging the values to the...
Curated OER
Fractions as Percentage and Decimals
In this fractions, percentages, and decimals activity, students solve 14 problems where they must convert back and forth. Students are given numbers in fraction, percentage, and decimal form and are asked to change their form.
Curated OER
Working with Percentages and Proportions
In this percentages and proportions activity, students are given percentages, they express them as a proportions, they create an equivalent ratio using "x" for the unknown portion and they cross multiply and divide to find their answer.
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
Hospitality and Tourism 2: Costing
The lesson plan provides a richly detailed narrative and sample problems for teaching or reinforcing how to work with percentages. In particular, your audience will compute the costs per serving of food and simulate setting menu prices...
National Security Agency
Partying with Proportions and Percents
Examine ratios and proportions in several real-world scenarios. Children will calculate unit rates, work with proportions and percentages as they plan a party, purchase produce, and take a tally. This lesson plan recommends five...
Curated OER
Gold Rush California and its Diverse Population
Students compare contemporary cultural differences with historical differences based on population percentage. In this cross-curriculum Gold Rush/math lesson, students analyze aspects of California's Gold Rush population and diversity...
Math Worksheets Land
Conversion between Decimals, Fractions, Percentages - Step-By-Step Lesson
A helpful math worksheet, intended as a guided lesson, walks young mathematicians through the process of converting the decimal 0.75 to a fraction and percent.
Math Worksheets Land
Numbers Based on Percentage
Percent proportion problems (say that three times fast!) can be a tricky thing for young mathematicians to ace. But practice makes perfect and this resource provides five different versions of the same topic as a worksheet. Although no...
Math Worksheets Land
Conversion Between Decimals, Fractions, Percentages - Independent Practice Worksheet
Practice converting with a decimals, fractions, and percents math worksheet. Learners work to complete 10 problems, each one with a different starting point to the conversion process.
CCSS Math Activities
Smarter Balanced Sample Items: 8th Grade Math – Claim 4
A math model is a good model. A slide show presents 10 sample items on modeling and data analysis. Items from Smarter Balanced illustrate different ways that Claim 4 may be assessed on the 8th grade math assessment. The presentation is...
Curated OER
Rising Gas Prices – Compounding and Inflation
Financial literacy skills and exponential models are connected by the compound interest formula in this task centered on inflation calculations. Collaborative learners get experience collecting data from the given websites and exploring...
College of Marin
General Addition and Multiplication Rules of Conditional Probabilities
Making connections between multiple methods of solving problems is an important part of understanding conditional probability. The lesson shows solutions to problems using Venn diagrams, tree diagrams, formulas, and...
Illustrative Mathematics
Sammy's Chipmunk and Squirrel Observations
Here is a fun project. Sammy observes a chipmunk and a squirrel to see how many holes each needs in order to stash the same number of acorns. Scholars could find the answer algebraically or create a table to analyze the...
West Contra Costa Unified School District
Interest and the Number “e”
Make a connection between different types of interest and how they are calculated! This algebra II lesson progresses from simple interest to compound interest to continually compounded interest. Formulas are developed rather than given,...
Curated OER
GSE Foundations of Algebra: Equations and Inequalities
Need lessons on writing and solving one- and two-step linear equations and inequalities, as well as systems of equations? This comprehensive 106-page module from the Georgia Department of Education contains many different lessons for a...
Curated OER
Accidents Happen: Seat Belt Laws, Enforcement, and Usage
Start with a NOVA video about car crashes, crash test dummy footage, or other video about seat belt use. Or have groups review attached data about seat belt usage (by state) and share their conclusions. Learners then devise a method to...
Curated OER
Math in English Skills VIII Exercise Book
For some learners, fractions are the bane of fifth- and sixth-grade existence. Use this fantastic packet to help those in remediation for mathematics. The packet contains 20 worksheets with answer keys, and covers adding, subtracting,...