University of Missouri
Money Math
Young mathematicians put their skills to the test in the real world during this four-lesson consumer math unit. Whether they are learning how compound interest can make them millionaires, calculating the cost of remodeling...
Newspaper Association of America
By the Numbers: Mathematical Connections in Newspapers for Middle-Grade Students
A cross-curricular resource teaches and reinforces mathematical concepts with several activities that use parts of a newspaper. Scholars use scavenger hunts to find the different ways math is used in the paper along with using data...
EngageNY
Ratios and Unit Rates
This turn-key unit on ratios and unit rates walks through a 30-lesson unit on teaching proportional reasoning, with each lesson broken into detailed teaching notes and time allotments for all parts. An unbelievable resource when taken...
Benjamin Franklin High School
Saxon Math: Algebra 2 (Section 1)
This first of twelve algebra 2 resources provides a broad review of many algebra 1 concepts through a number of separable lessons and labs. Starting with the real number system and its subsystems, the sections quickly but thoroughly...
Radford University
Sleep and Teen Obesity: Is there a Correlation?
Does the number of calories you eat affect the total time you sleep? Young mathematicians tackle this question by collecting their own data and making comparisons between others in the class through building scatter plots and regression...
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Beginning Algebra: Percent and Problem Solving
Using this tutorial, you'll learn how to convert percents into decimals (and vice versa) and to solve various problems involving percents. Offers a variety of sample problems with step-by-step solutions and practice exercises for you to...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Discount, Tax, and Tip Word Problems
Practice solving word problems involving price discounts, taxes, and tip calculations. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Percent Word Problems
Practice solving word problems involving percents. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Defining and Calculating Percents
Explore methods for calculating and comparing discounts in this video from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students develop different strategies for calculating and comparing discounts, including percent off a price,...
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Operations With Numbers in Scientific Notation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students solve percent problems involving scientific notation. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Markup and Commission Word Problems
Practice solving word problems involving price markups and commission fees. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Finding Percents
Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100; solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Algebra 1: Semester 1: Equations
A learning module through which students learn about equations including the following: Translating words into equations and equations into words, The Properties of Equality to help solving equations, Techniques for solving simple...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Percent of Change Grades 8 9
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how to solve real-world problems involving percentages.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Percent Equations Grades 8 9
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how to solve problems involving percentages by writing an equation.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Percent Equations Grade 8
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how to solve problems involving percentages by writing an equation.
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Beginning Algebra
This tutorial for students new to algebra provides explanations, definitions, examples, and practice problems. The practice tests cover topics such as real numbers, fractions, equations, graphing, and exponents.
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Percent and Fractions: Ratio and Proportion
Activities and factsheets exploring ratios and proportions in everyday life. Interactive, colorful, and fun.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Simple Interest
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson, students solve real-world problems involving simple interest by using problem-solving strategies. Students examine guided notes, review guided...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Rational Equations Using Proportions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how to solve rational equations using proportions.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Math: Multiplication of Decimals
Watch step by step how to solve a word problem involving the multiplication of decimals.