Art of Problem Solving: Percent Word Problems Part 1

Address any kind of math concept or problem with a series of problem-solving strategies. Over 12 days of different activities and increasing skills, learners practice different ways to solve problems, check their answers, and reflect...

Sal works up an appetite for his Thanksgiving turkey in this video, which takes students through the first five problems of a new set of SAT practice questions from The Official SAT Study Guide. Problems involve algebraic word problems,...

Concepts from the last few videos, particularly exponential growth and decay functions, are covered in this video about word problems. Viewers can apply their new (or growing) algebraic knowledge to solve the word problems along with Sal.

Video tutorial uses examples to reinforce understanding of how to solve percent word problems. (Part 2) [9:52]

Video tutorial uses examples to introduce percents and explore how to convert percents to decimals and fractions. [8:13]

School subjects connect when your young scholars use math to edit English. Math allows you to convert an entire paragraph into a simple equation or inequality. Examples encourage learners to write expressions, equations, and inequalities...

Video tutorial uses examples to reinforce understanding of square roots. [5:16]

Video tutorial uses examples to practice how to solve square root problems. (Part 2) [8:20]

Teachers, this New Zealand Problem Solving website is an outstanding resource for lesson plans. They are organized into the following categories: Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, Numbers, Statistics, and Logic and Reasoning.

Use word problems to teach systems of equations! The instructor in this video demonstrates how to solve a word problem using a system of equations and the elimination by subtraction method. She goes through each step, carefully...