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Stock Market Math

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students calculate commission for a stock transaction through a broker using the relationship between percentages and decimals. They decide which stocks are preferable based on the price to earnings ratios listed on the stock market quotes.
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Who Wants to Win Millions: Decimals and Percents

For Teachers 4th - 5th
What a great way to review math concepts involving decimals and percents! Learners solve problems involving adding decimals, converting percents to decimals, and multiplying decimals.
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Who Wants to Be a Champion

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Challenge your learners with this game focusing on problems involving ratios and calculating percentages. In this game, learners have to identify a ratio, convert ratios to a fraction, convert a percent to a fraction, and answer word...
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Deal or No Deal?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Using a game format, learners engage in an activity called Deal or No Deal. Taking real life scenarios involving items for sale, such as cereal boxes three for $5.00, they determine whether an example is a deal or not. This activity...
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Rational Speed Matching

For Teachers 6th
Ready, set, go! Individuals practice converting rational numbers between fractions, decimals, and percents. A speed game has teams match the three forms of rational numbers on a number line.
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Find Percentages of Numbers - Step-by-Step Lesson

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Finding a percentage of a number is a skill learners must know in order to be successful thinkers. The resource introduces this concept with a guided explanation and can be used with the additional materials as a...
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Find Percentages of Numbers - Independent Practice Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Put your learners to the test and see how well they can calculate percentages of numbers. The ten-problem worksheet doesn't specify which method to use to solve, which gives them the freedom to choose. 
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Percentages of Numbers Lesson and Practice

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Quick resource for those learners who need a guide when finding percentages of a number. Provides one worked-out example and two practice problems that can be used as a handout. 
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Percent Error and Percent Increase - Matching Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Calculating percent change is a handy tool to understand sales, discounts, and other numerical changes we come across. Here, learning exercise practices percent change and percent error with a variety of problems to let your...
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Percent Error and Percent Increase - Independent Practice Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Give your learners a small taste of the business world by calculating percent error and percent increase. The resource provides several practice problems to give your mathematicians practice setting up the ratio to convert to percents....
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Percent Error and Percent Increase - Guided Lesson

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
When prices and numbers change, can you calculate by how much? Here is a worksheet that introduces the idea of percent change and percent error to calculator how much change the information goes through. Use the worked-out solutions...
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Multistep Ratio and Percent Word Problems - Matching Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Increasing and decreasing values happen every day and your learners will be prepared after practicing this worksheet. Show them how ratios are a convenient method to convert between values to get the answer they need. Resource also comes...
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Markups and Markdowns Word Problems - Matching Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Show learners how math is all around them with a instructional 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...
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Patterns of Association (Using Data Table) - Matching Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This resource is the last of a four-part series that practices calculating percents based on data represetned in tables. This page has four multiple choice problems that analyze the data tables to answer a question. 
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Patterns of Association (Using Data Tables) - Independent Practice Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Here is a worksheet that belongs in a four-part resource that has learners practice using data tables to calculate percentages. The page has ten problems with different data tables asking to find different...
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Patterns of Association (Using Data Tables) - Step-by-Step Lesson

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This worksheet belongs to a four-part resource that gathers information from data tables to calculate percentages. The page introduces one problem and shares an explanation to the answer.
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Study Jams! Decimal, Fraction, & Percent Equivalents

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
If percents, fractions, and decimals can all mean the same number how do we go from one to another? During this instructional activity, watch how it goes over the basic steps needed to go from one rational number to the next. Both...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Converting Square Units

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Jada has a rectangle board that is measured in inches. Young learners confirm their understanding of converting inches to feet. Then they find the area in square feet. Jada thinks she has a short-cut to convert inches square to square...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Finding a 10% increase

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A quick problem to test your mathematicians' knowledge on percent increase. Two different solutions are provided, mental math and computing. Ask your learners to include a description of what they did to supplement their answer.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Tax and Tip

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Finding out how to calculate tax and tip is a valuable skill that all young adults should be able to do without a calculator. Learners are given a bill and asked to calculate the tax, tip, and total amount. Calculations can be exact or...
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Percents

For Students 7th - 10th
There are many ways to look at percentages. Here are eight problems to practice the different ways to calculate percentages based on how the question is asked. There are no examples, just practice problems.
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60-30-10

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use ratios and proportions to represent quantitative relationships as they investigate the concept of how percentages are used by designers. Students decorate the same room using three different percentages of colors.
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Chinese New Year: A Simple Lesson in Debt, Percent, and Loan Interest

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners study Chinese New Year traditions while investigating the concepts of percent and loan interest. They apply the concepts to calculate the total debt on monies borrowed.
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What's Left?

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students work together to choose a favorite food that can be divided. Using construction paper, they draw a picture of the food and take turns erasing it to determine how much of it is left. They must include all equations, fractions and...