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Interest: Interest Olympics
Students determine how interests is calculated and a how it accrues. They examine charts and graphs that show the intricacies of interest. They determine how to increase their own saving by using interest while working with a partner to...
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Matrices
In this matrices learning exercise, 9th graders solve and complete 11 different problems that include interpreting various matrices shown. First, they determine the operations that would result in the matrix illustrated. Then, students...
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Percent
In this percents worksheet, students solve 10 fill in the blank problems where they are given a fraction and must express each fraction as a percent.
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Roundball for Remembrance
Students view a segment of Futures With Jaime Escalante showing the application of math in basketball, and they try to find some of these applications in a tape of a game played by their home school. This fun lesson should be very...
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Percent
In this percents worksheet, students solve 10 fill in the blank problems where they are given a fraction and must express each fraction as a percent.
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A Family Finance Experience
Young scholars create a budget and make predictions about money. In this algebra instructional activity,students balance spending and income by monitoring their finance.
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Percentages Level 2
In this math worksheet, students solve the word problems in order to solve the problems using percentages. They apply the percent proportion.
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Fiction or Nonfiction? Considering the Common Core's Emphasis on Informational Text
Nothing aids in comprehension more than an explanation and understanding of why things are done. Address why the Common Core requires the reading percentages that it established and analyze how this affects your readers. Learners read...
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Camouflage and Protective Coloration: A Model of Natural Selection
Students investigate natural selection and differential survival among divergent phenotypes of a population. Using everyday items , they model adaptations of camouflage and protective coloration in two very different environments.They...
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Money Circulation: A Story of Trade and Commerce
Students are introduced to the meaning, symbolism, and value of the quarter. They determine the percentage of total monetary value held in quarters and graph the results. Students infer about the U.S. Mint's distrubution of coins. They...
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The Wealth Tax of 1935 and the Victory Tax of 1942
Young scholars explain that during the Great Depression and World War II, the Roosevelt administration implemented new, broader, and more progressive taxes in order to cover the costs of the New Deal programs and the war.
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Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
In this fractions, decimals and percentages instructional activity, students change percentages to fractions and simplify. An answer key is provided.
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Percentages
In this percentages activity, 5th graders solve and complete 3 different problems. First, they complete the table shown with the correct fraction, decimal and percentage. Then, students find the percentage of each given number.
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Percentages
In this percentages worksheet, students problem solve five mathematical word problems associated with percents and percentages.
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Percentages: Converting Fractions and Decimals to Percents
Young scholars calculate percentages. In this percentages lesson, students count the total number of floor tiles covering a given space, measure a designated section of the room, and then calculate the percentage of the room this area...
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Percentage Practice
In this percentage problem worksheet, 7th graders find the percent of a number by changing the percent to a decimal and multiplying. Students' objective is to read through each word problem and change the given percent to a decimal,...
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Percentages, Fractions and Decimal Equivalents
In this math worksheet, students complete a chart in which percentages are expressed as fractions and then as decimals. There are 24 problems.
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Percentages: Fractions To Percent
In this percentages learning exercise, students write eighteen fractions as percentages. Students problem solve each fraction as a percentage.
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Decimals to Fractions and Percentages
In this decimals to fractions and percentages worksheet, 7th graders solve 7 different decimals. First, they convert each decimal listed to a fraction and reduce it to lowest terms. Then, students convert each decimal to a percentage.
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Percentages On A Grid
Fifth graders show percentages on a 10 x 10 grid. In this percentages lesson plan, 5th graders color in the squares to show a percent.
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Data Analysis, Probability, and Discrete Math: Lesson 6
Eighth graders engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concepts surrounding the interpretation of information included in graphs for analysis of data for probability. They examine circle graphs and differentiate the values of...
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How Electronics Come to Us: Distribution and Use
Young scholars identify environmental challenges that can be solved throughout a product's life cycle. They experiment and examine how we can choose and use products in an environmentally responsible manner. Each student is also involved...
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Percentages
In this online math worksheet, students practice converting from decimals to percents. When complete, students submit their answers and get instant feedback regarding their accuracy.
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Worksheet #6, Exponents, Interest, and Radioactive Decay of Isotopes
In this calculus worksheet, learners sketch graphs of given exponential functions. They compute the principal needed to have a given ending balance when the interest is compounded at varying times. Students use a simple exponential model...