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Giving it 100%
Students build knowledge about the number relationships between decimals and percents as it relates to converting decimals into percents. In this decimal and percent instructional activity, students recognize equivalent forms of...
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The Meaning Of Percent
This lesson provides students with a variety of exercises which allow them to increase their ability to understand percentage.
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Getting Percentible
This unit explores the connections between percentages, decimals, and fractions. It focuses on strategies for solving problems involving percentages and applies these strategies to real life contexts.
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Family Letter and Activity: Cars, Trucks and Percents
In this math instructional activity, students will take home a letter to their parents explaining that they are studying Chapter 10: Ratio, Proportion and Percent. Then students will complete a homework activity in which they ask family...
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Ratio and Proportions
Students explore the means and extremes of a proportion, the how to make a scale drawing.
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Writing Scripts For Math Podcast
Students create podcasts of student-created review questions using iPod, iTalk, iTunes, GarageBand, and Keynote. This lesson is intended for as a mathematics review but could be adapted to fit any subject across many different levels.
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Fraction Conversions
Students convert between fractions, decimals, and percents using money. In this conversions lesson plan, students play with a mock store in class.
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The Paperless Classroom: Websites that Help You Go Digital
From kindergarten through high school, these tools will help reduce the paper trail.
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Three Math Musketeers
Students engage in the opportunity to convert and rename fractions along with decimals and percents. They recognize the relationship between fractions, decimals, and percents. They apply fractions, decimals, and percents to real-world...
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Ratios
In this ratio activity, students provide conversions for sets of ratios in charts, converting to fractions, decimals and percents. A website reference is given for additional resources.
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Piece of the Sky: Introduction for Making S'COOL Observations
Students observe and discuss cloud cover. They identify percent of cloud cover, calculate cloud cover by fraction and convert to a percent, and compare their models with the current real sky cloud cover.
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Team Puzzles
Fourth graders work in co-operative teams of four to complete a puzzle. Each student initially works independently, and then the team jointly puts together the four shapes they have individually made, to complete the puzzle.
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Squirt
Fourth graders using the idea of "how many more squirts" fill a container to develop multiplicative thinking. They also investigate the idea of conservation of volume when working with oddly shaped containers. They attempt to use...
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Population Ratios
Students access web site and record various population statistics pertaining to a county in the USA of their choice. They use this data to set up and solve ratios. They compare data to make meaning of the numbers.
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Differentiating for High Ability Students
You can challenge high ability students in your classroom with these differentiated lesson plans.
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Graph a Panther's Diet
Students examine the diet of panthers. In this interpreting data lesson plan, students collect data on the panther's diet and chart the data in bar and pie graphs.
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Reading Trees: Understanding Dendrochronology
Students examine tree-ring dating and discuss the lack of water the settlers in Jamestown faced. They create paper tree rings, simulate rain patterns, and describe the history of construction paper tree sequences.
Cool Math
Coolmath: Decimals How to Convert Fractions to Decimals Part 1
Learn how to convert fractions to decimals.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Moving From Fractions to Decimals
Introduce students to decimals with this lesson. Students will explore how fractions can be changed to decimals with place value charts.
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Ab Cya: Fractions to Decimals: Puppy Chase
Up to twelve players can participate in the Puppy Chase while testing their abilities to convert fractions to decimals. Each puppy's speed depends upon how quickly the problems are solved. Check out the record and rate of each player at...
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Coolmath: Decimals How to Convert Fractions to Decimals Part 2
A prealgebra lesson that explains how to convert a fraction to a decimal.
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Class Flow: Fractions to Decimals
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an Activote quiz based on converting common fractions to decimals.
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Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Fractions as Decimals
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of writing fractions as decimals. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check...
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Coolmath: Coolmath4kids: Puppy Pull Decimals
Win the tug of war while practicing converting fractions to decimals!