Curated OER
Igneous Rocks
In this rocks worksheet, students review the different types and characteristics of igneous rocks. This worksheet has 2 fill in the blank, 14 short answer questions, and 1 problem to solve.
Curated OER
Habitat Is Home
Students are introduced to the concept and components of a habitat. They discuss the key components of a habitat and describe how certain factors can cause disturbances in a habitat and change its population. Activities are leveled for...
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The Clumsy Tiler N (Fractions)
Students explore patterns and geometric sequencing. Students devise and use problem solving strategies to explore situations mathematically. Students solve real life problems. They demonstrate, with cardboard pieces, fraction and...
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Advertising
Students listen to a guest speaker about the different types of advertising. Using research materials, they discover the laws about copyrighting material. They visit foreign websites to view their advertising and discuss how it is...
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Snow Cover By Latitude
Middle schoolers examine computerized data maps in order to create graphs of the amount of snowfall found at certain latitudes by date. Then they compare the graphs and the data they represent. Students present an analysis of the graphs.
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Color Matters
Middle schoolers create a spreadsheet to chart favorite colors, then collect data, create appropriate charts, and use percentages to describe quantities.
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Buying My First Car
Students pretend they are about to buy their first new car. They must do all the calculations necessary to estimate the cost of purchasing the car. They see that the math they learn in school really does have real-life applications.
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Capacity Lotto
In this mathematical worksheet, students convert fifteen metric units of capacity and multiply and divide whole numbers by 10, 100 and 1000.
Curated OER
What Should I Wear Today?
Fourth graders examine weather data for Columbus, Ohio using an Internet resource. They complete a two day and a weekly weather charts before discussing the information. After the discussion, they answer questions about the charts...
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Recipe For Disaster
Students play an interactive game online to learn ratios. In this statistics instructional activity, students solve problems in an online game about ratio and relating statistics to the real world. This instructional activity provides...
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Asphalt Lab
Students are introduced to basic engineering principles, road construction and material science. They explore how material properties and strength can be affected. Students become Civil Engineers by both creating Asphalt cookies and by...
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One Size Fits All?
Students describe the differences between an estimate and a guess. They create reasonable estimates based on comparison and activities. Students explain how estimation is helpful in showing the relative size on a scale. They also...
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Ratio and Proportion: Proportional Ratios
In this ratios worksheet, middle schoolers write yes or no for if the ratios given are proportional or not. Students complete 7 number problems and 5 money problems.
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.
BBC
Bbc: Percentages
You can pick up some valuable percentage pointers on how to work with them. When you finish working your way through the pages, you can take an on-line "Test Bite" and check your understanding.
Elias Saab
Math Drills: Percentage Word Problems Quiz
An interactive quiz which provides students with word problems involving a percentage to be solved. Students input their solution and have the program evaluate it. Hints are available if the student needs them, and explanations are...
Purple Math
Purplemath: Basic "Percent Of" Word Problems
Demonstrates how to set up and solve 'percent of' word problems such as 'What percent of 16 is 5?'.
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.
Mr. Martini's Classroom
Mr. Martini's Classroom: Percent Math Practice in Black & White
On this site students can practice solving three types of percent problems and check their answers.
Amby Duncan-Carr
Amby's Math Instruction: Using the Proportion Method to Solve Percent Problems
Learn to use the Proportion Method to calculate percentage problems, then practice your skill at the bottom of the page. Extra practice is provided for solving problems with percents. The site allows you to check your answer after...
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Percent and Fractions: Ratio and Proportion
Activities and factsheets exploring ratios and proportions in everyday life. Interactive, colorful, and fun.