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CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Prices Involving Discounts Grade 8
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find discount prices given sales involving percents.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Discount Savings
This lesson is intended to help students develop an understanding of sale information to compute discounts, discount rates, original prices and sale prices.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Percent Discount and Sales Tax
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of percent discount and sales tax. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sales Tax
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students apply ratio, percent, and direct proportion in situations. Students solve problems involving percentages such as percent increase/decrease, tax, commission, and discount.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Percentages in Real Life
Learn how to calculate percentages in real-life situations, from sales tax to discounts to tips.
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Percentages
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipcharts, students use the interactive tools to solve various rational number problems involving percentages (e.g., percent increase/decrease, tax, commission, and discount).
BBC
Bbc: Ks3 Maths: Percentages
KS3 Math provides interactive activities on percentages, using pence and pounds. Use the factsheet for percentage information. You may use the worksheet for percentage practice and take the test provided to check your percentage skills....
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Percents Combined: Proportional Relationships With Multistep Ratio and Percent Problems
Learn how to calculate sale price when combining two "percent-off" discounts in this video from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students develop and share a variety of strategies, including modeling with a 10 x 10 grid to...
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Multiple Percents
Have you ever seen an item that you wanted on sale for 15% of its original price? Have you tried to figure out what the sale price would be? Using this interactive lesson from T.V. 411, you can learn to calculate discounts with percentages.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Consumer Math
From basics such as adding and subtracting money, converting coins, and making change to more advanced topics such as sales tax and simple interest, this interactive tutorial offers help with consumer math issues.
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.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Shopping
Get tips for buying everything from laundry detergent to your dream home.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Percentages
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students use the interactive tools to solve various rational number problems involving percentages. Flipchart contains many sample problems for students to gain plenty of practice.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Markdown Savings
This site from the Drexel University contains problems for practicing using percents, using a mock sale as the motif. A link takes you to a model solution.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Commission
This site from Yale University provides a description of commission with example problems. Additional topics can be found on the same page.