Curated OER
Percentage Increase And Decrease
In this math worksheet, students practice calculating percentages when there is an original amount and then an increase or decrease. Students figure out what the new amount would be. No instruction is given on how to calculate these...
Curated OER
Finding A Percentage
Helpful after a lesson on percentages, this worksheet can reinforce the steps and formulas necessary for finding percentages. Students calculate the percent one number is of another, and then the percent of change (increase or decrease)...
Curated OER
Fractions and Percentages
For this fractions and percentages worksheet, students are given 4 mental test each with 8 problems including finding percentages, converting decimals and fractions to percentages, and adding, subtracting and multiplying fractions.
Curated OER
Percent and Percentage Problems
In this Algebra I/Algebra II worksheet, students solve application problems involving percents, percent error, and percent of increase or decrease. The two page worksheet contains a combination of fourteen multiple choice and free...
Curated OER
Percent of Increase and Decrease
For this change in percent worksheet, students find the percentage of increase and decrease of a number. There are four problems to solve.
EngageNY
Fluency with Percents
Pupils build confidence working with percents as they work several types of percent problems to increase their fluency. The resource contains two sets of problems specifically designed to build efficiency in finding solutions of basic...
Curated OER
Percent/Percentage Word Problems (Part 3)
In this Algebra I worksheet, 9th graders solve percent application problems, including percent of increase and decrease. The one page interactive worksheet contains seven problems. Answers and a hint are provided.
Radford University
Percentages: Lesson 1
Math can be taxing at times. With a short lesson, pupils determine how income tax affects take-home pay. Learners determine their net pay based on tax tables and how adjustments in their gross pay changes the paycheck.
Curated OER
Finding Percent of Change/ Increase or Decrease
Seventh graders explore the skill of finding the increase and decrease of a quantity. Calculating the increase and decrease is covered by a percent. The proporition for finding a percent is also part of the activity.
Curated OER
Ratios
In this percentages activity, learners complete word problems dealing with percentage increases and decreases. Students complete 3 problems.
Illustrative Mathematics
Comparing Years
Who knew that the Egyptian, Julian, and Gregorian year were different lengths? Your mathematicians will! They will have to calculate the difference between the years in seconds and find the percent change. Using dimensional analysis,...
Noyce Foundation
Mixing Paints
Let's paint the town equal parts yellow and violet, or simply brown. Pupils calculate the amount of blue and red paint needed to make six quarts of brown paint. Individuals then explain how they determined the percentage of the brown...
Illustrative Mathematics
Discounted Books
Adolescents love to shop, especially when an item is discounted. Here, shoppers only have a set amount of money to spend. Will they be able to make a purchase with the discount and tax added in? Percent discounts can be calculated...
Central New Mexico Community College
Percent Word Problems
Take young mathematicians' understanding of percents into the real world with this series of word problems. Involving a variety of contexts from calculating scores on math tests and savings account interest, to determining sale prices...
Curated OER
The Stock Market
Students explore the loss and gain made in the stock market as they invest a sum of money and report the results as percentages instead of points.
EngageNY
Markup and Markdown Problems
There is a 100 percent chance this resource will help pupils connect percents to financial literacy. Young mathematicians use their knowledge of percents to find markups and markdowns in financial situations in the seventh segment in a...
Curated OER
Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
In this fractions, decimals, and percentages activity, students compare and order given amounts. Students identify equivalent numbers. They calculate the percent of a given number and convert from a fraction to a percent and to a...
Curated OER
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.
Math Worksheets Land
Markups and Markdowns Word Problems - Matching Worksheet
Show learners how math is all around them with a activity that practices with percentage change. Match the eight problems regarding markups and markdowns to the answer choices, and see if they are ready to start shopping in the real world.
EngageNY
Tax, Commissions, Fees, and Other Real-World Percent Problems
Pupils work several real-world problems that use percents in the 11th portion of a 20-part series. The problems contain percents involved with taxes, commissions, discounts, tips, fees, and interest. Scholars use the equations formed for...
Willow Tree
Percent of Change
Your car decreases in value from $20,000 to $17,000. What percent of the value have you lost? Pupils answer word problems by determining the percent of change.
Balanced Assessment
Stock Market
Analyze trends in the stock market using histograms. Future economists use data presented in a histogram to find periods of greatest increase and decrease. They also draw conclusions about days that would be best to invest.
Illustrative Mathematics
Latitude
The greater the latitude, the less of the Earth is north. Scholars graph the relationship between the latitude and the percentage of the Earth that is north of the latitude. Using the graph and the table, class members interpret values...
Chicago Botanic Garden
Climate Change Around the World
It is unknown if cloud cover increases in response to carbon dioxide levels changing, helping climate change slow down, or if cloud cover decreases, allowing Earth to warm faster. Part four in the series of five lessons has classes...