Curated OER
Calculating Interest
Pupils explore the concept that when money is borrowed, people pay to use it because someone else is losing an opportunity to use it while they have it. What you pay to use the money is called interest. The rate of interest is a percent....
Curated OER
Let's Go Consumer Shopping
Second graders rotate through various centers designed to practice consumer math skills. They complete a task card at stations simulating consumer transactions that would take place at toy store, grocery store, restaurant or school store.
Curated OER
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.
Curated OER
Complexity
Students perform mathematical operations on complex numbers. After a lecture/demo, students utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain practice performing operations on complex numbers.
Curated OER
Are You Absolutely Sure of the Value?
Seventh graders develop an examineing of absolute value through real world situations. They develop an examineing of when absolute value can be used in a given situation.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Number: Relate Fractions and Decimals
Express fractions as decimals and how they relate to each other.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Relating Decimals, Fractions and Percent
Get independent practice relating ratios, decimals, fractions and percents. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
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.
NumberNut
Number Nut: Working Beyond Arithmetic: Fractions and Decimals
Review fraction concepts in this succinct but detailed overview. The lesson highlights decimals, fractions, percentages, estimation, and rounding concepts with related vocabulary. Use the Reciprocal Fraction or Rounding games to practice...
NumberNut
Number Nut: Decimals
Do you know what a decimal is and how it is related to fractions? Find out and practice your skills playing the related interactive games.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Math Grade 5
Browse resources related to fifth-grade math standards. Click on a topic for interactive lessons, videos, and extra practice.
Math Medics
S.o.s. Math: Algebra
This lesson provides basic instruction on the major concepts in algebra. Content includes a focus on fractions, units of conversion, complex numbers, quadratic equations, factorization and roots of polynomials, solving equations, systems...
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: What's a Fraction
Use this interactive lesson to learn about fractions. You will find equivalent fractions, compare fractions, and more. Immediate feedback is given to your answers. Links to related videos.
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.
Other
The Actuarial Foundation: Math Academy: Dining Out [Pdf]
Students will understand and apply concepts of fractions, decimals and percents to count money, make change, figure tax/tips and participate in other restaurant-related activities.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Math Grade 2
Browse resources related to second-grade math standards. Click on a topic for interactive lessons, videos, and extra practice.
Yale University
Solving Problems by the Hundreds
This site contains a study of percentage and its applications in the study of consumer related problems. Problems involving sales tax are included. Examples, explanation, solutions and a bibliography are also included in the site.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Math Challenges for Families
Students, teachers, and parents alike will enjoy this challenging math site. It contains a clever brain teaser section plus creative problems related to algebra, geometry, measurement, numbers, statistics, and probability. A Spanish...
NumberNut
Number Nut: Breaking a Minute Into Seconds
Minutes become seconds in this lesson that focuses on time and measurement. This brief integrated lesson also explores science concepts regarding the relevance of a second. Fractions of seconds and decimals are also mentioned. The lesson...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Math Grade 4
Browse resources related to fourth-grade math standards. Click on a topic for interactive lessons, videos, and extra practice.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Math Grade 3
Browse resources related to third-grade math standards. Click on a topic for interactive lessons, videos, and extra practice.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Patterns in Division
Students investigate how the quotients and remainders from integer division relate to the quotients from rational number division in both fraction and decimal form.