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Fractions and Decimals and Percents; Oh, My!
Fourth graders watch a PBS video about fractions, percents and decimals. They fill in fraction circles and rename them in decimals and percents. They visit and interact on a fractions, decimals and percents website and solve problems.
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Clothing Store Word Problems
Students practice answering money word problems on shopping at the clothing store.
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How Taxing are Taxes?
Students explore the ways that taxes are levied based on taxable income. They analyze how a new series of tax cuts might affect people of different income levels and their tax rates.
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Computing Costs
Seventh graders calculate the out-of-pocket money needed to purchase a discounted item taxed at a certain percentage of sales tax.
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Let's Go Shopping with $500
Third graders use a worksheet to budget a five-hundred dollar shopping spree. They select goods to purchase, figure totals and then calculate discounts and sales tax. They compare results to determine who purchased the most for his or...
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What Does Percent Have to Do With It?
Fourth graders go shopping for a real life experience involving percent. They explore the concepts of sales tax and discount prices.
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Finding Percent When Given A Fraction
Seventh graders calculate percentages when given a fraction. They convert a percentage to a fraction. All of this be done by each student's ability to read the graphs made available by the spreadsheet information.
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What Are We Listening To?
Students gather data from a web site on number of music albums sold by genre for the last two years. They convert these figures to fractions, decimals, and percents, and display the results in bar graphs and pie charts.
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Percentages
In this online math worksheet, students practice converting from decimals to percents. When complete, students submit their answers and get instant feedback regarding their accuracy.
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Percentages On A Grid
Fifth graders show percentages on a 10 x 10 grid. For this percentages lesson plan, 5th graders color in the squares to show a percent.
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Percent Of 2-Digit Numbers
In this percentage worksheet, students find percentages of 10 two-digit numbers. Problems include finding more than 100% of a number.
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CheMATHstry That Sticks Right to You
Young scholars find the percent composition of sugar in the gum. In this chemistry instructional activity, students calculate percent error from the experiment. They use dimensional analysis to convert between units.
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Topics in Math
In this consumer mathematics worksheet, students explore a variety of topics in mathematics including simple interest, perimeter, area, volume, translating words into symbols, percentage problems and mortgage calculations. The fourteen...
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Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
In this fractions, decimals and percentages worksheet, students change percentages to fractions and simplify. An answer key is provided.
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Percent Equation 1
In this percent equations worksheet, 7th graders translate word problems to number equations and then solve them. They write proportions to solve percent equations. This two-page worksheet contains 9 problems. Answers...
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Fractions to Percents
For this fractions to percents worksheet, students convert fractions with numbers less than 40 into percents. Students complete 6 problems total.
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Basketball As A Context for Percentages
Students investigate fractions as percentages when associated with basketball. In this fraction and percentages lesson, students watch a video clip that includes mathematical information about women's basketball presented in percentages....
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Fra-Per-Dec
Students explore the concept of ordering fractions and finding equivalent fractions. In this ordering fractions and finding equivalent fractions lesson, students play a card game where students must collect 5 cards with equivalent...
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Solving Percent Problems with Proportions
Seventh graders explore the concept of percent problems. In this percent problem lesson, 7th graders use proportion equations to solve percent problems. Students find percentages of numbers and use proportions to determine percents in...
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Percent of a Number
In this percents worksheet, students solve 4 problems in which a percentage of a number is calculated. Students also calculate the number that is a given percent of another number.
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An Introduction to Percent
Fifth graders explore the concept of percents. In this percent lesson, 5th graders express fractions and decimals as percents. Students convert fractions and decimals as percents in this lecture style lesson.