Math Planet
Math Planet: Pre Algebra: Solving Problems With Percent
Discover how to solve problems with percent by taking a look at examples and a video lesson.
Math Planet
Math Planet: Algebra 1: Calculating With Percents
Provides examples and a video lesson that illustrates how to solve percent problems.
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Exploring Combined Percentages
Combined percentages are introduced in this video through analyzing plays in football. Be sure to follow the interactive activity link for students to explore combined percentages representing the number of completed passes for 2 games....
Science Struck
Science Struck: How to Calculate Percentage Increase
Explains and demonstrates how to calculate the percentage increase from year to year and how to calculate it using an Excel spreadsheet.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Percents Grade 7
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recognize a percent as a ratio whose denominator is 100.
Frostburg State University
General Chemistry: Percent Compound in a Mixture
Resource contains and example problem and solution of how to compute percent compound within a mixture when given the mixture's mass and element percents.
BBC
Bbc: Percentages
You can pick up some valuable percentage pointers on how to work with them. When you finish working your way through the pages, you can take an on-line "Test Bite" and check your understanding.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S Id.4 Do You Fit in This Car?
Students are tasked with solving a common issue for automobile manufacturers that require the students to use normal distribution as a model for data distribution. They will also use mean and standard deviation to figure out the problem....
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.ee Discounted Books
A performance task asking students to see two different ways to look at percentages, as an increase and as a decrease of an original amount.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Introduction to Percentages
Tutorial provides a great introduction to percentages.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Kendall's Vase Tax
Students use percentage and addition to answer this real-world math performance task: Kendall bought a vase that was priced at $450. In addition, she had to pay 3% sales tax. How much did she pay for the vase?
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Percents Grade 8
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] recognize and write percents as part of a whole out of 100.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement: Scale Distances or Dimensions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recognize unit scale as a ratio between units of measure of scale dimension to actual dimension.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Ratios and Proportional Relationships 7.rp.3 Worksheets
Print or create worksheets or flashcards to assess students' understanding of how to use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Expressions & Equations 7.ee.3 Worksheets
Print or create worksheets or flashcards to assess students' understanding of percents and decimals.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Expressions & Equations 7.ee.2 Worksheets
Print or create worksheets or flashcards to assess students' understanding of percent word problems as decimal expressions.
Other
Quick Math: Numbers Percentages
This QuickMath activity changes percentages to decimals or fraction and vice versa. It also calculates a certain percent of a number or vice versa.
Microsoft
Microsoft Education Virtual Tour: Batter Up!
This downloadable (2.7 MB Microsoft PowerPoint file) project helps students apply their knowledge of fractions and decimals to the game of baseball. They compute batting averages and hitting percentages and participate in a simulated...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Baseball Math
Learn more about baseball and math when you check out this resource. It provides a lesson plan for upper elementary to middle school students where they will use their skills in percentages, decimals and combinations.
Other
Pep: Hit the Deck: A Collection of Math Games
This is a collection of math games ranging from Kindergarten to the upper elementary grades, using only an ordinary deck of playing cards. There are games covering addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, percents,...
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Percent and Fractions: Percentages
Tutorial teaches students about percents and fractions.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: To Scale or Not to Scale? That Is the Factor.
Students will learn to solve proportions and find missing sides of similar figures using the scale factor. This lesson is best taught before the concept of cross multiplication is developed. Not only will the student learn the process of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Genetics: Peas to Blood Types
Students will complete an online tutorial about what makes up a person's blood type, how blood types are determined, and which blood types can transfuse safely.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Is It Really That Big?
Just how tall is that object? In this lesson, students will participate in an outdoor group activity using shadows to extend their knowledge of proportions to solve problems dealing with similarity. The cooperative learning groups will...