Students can brush up on percentage skills with this lesson and calculate percentages using the "Percent Tricks method." For students to successfully use this method, they must have the ability to multiply and divide whole numbers.

A selection of teacher resources dealing with percentages. There are worksheets and PowerPoints available to download.

This tutorial explains how to use a calculator to find a percent. There is also a practice section at the end of the lesson.

Discover how percents and proportions help explain issues like climate change, composting, and zero waste in this video from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students estimate the percentage of various types of trash that...

The general manager of a fitness center explains how numerical calculations, percentages, and ratios are critical to his job in this video from KAET. In the accompanying classroom activity, students explore percentages, fractions, and...

On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario by picking out clothing. Those skills include calculating percentages using fractions and calculating the new cost of a product after a...

This site provides shortcuts and hints on how to do more complicated percentages without a calculator. For others beside 2.5, scroll down the left column and click percentage of choice under "Percents."

Test your bargin shopping skills by figuring out which discount offers the greatest savings. A one page activity from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families series that focuses on understanding and calculating percentages. Connections...

Learn how to calculate percentages in this easy lesson.

This AAA Math tutorial covers calculating percents, relationships of percents to fractions and decimals, and uses of percents.

Convert a fraction to a percent. Convert proper and improper fractions to percentages. This calculator shows the steps and work to convert a fraction to a percentage number.

Table shows incremental ordering of fractions with decimal and percentage equivalents.

Input the percent value that you would like to convert to a decimal. This calculator divides by 100 to convert percents to decimal values.

Convert decimals to percentages with this calculator. Input a decimal number to convert both the whole number and decimal part of the number to a percent value.

Convert mixed numbers or mixed fractions to percents. The mixed number to percentage calculator finds the decimal equivalent by finding the decimal value of the fraction, adding the decimal to the whole number part of the mixed number,...

Use this percentage calculator to "calculate a percent of a value" or "find the percent change between two values." Provided answers include steps for carrying out the calculations yourself.

WyzAnt provides applets that allow the user to input as much of the percentage question that is known, and it will compute the rest.

The learning activity investigates percentages. Topics examined are converting percents to decimals, converting percents to fractions, and the percentage difference. Links to additional resources and a percentage calculator are included.

Set up a spreadsheet using a computer or graphing calculator, and perform calculations using columns. Calculate percentages and solve a system of equations regarding baseball statistics.

Given the total price paid for a meal, including the tip (given as a percentage of the meal's cost), players are asked to calculate the original bill.

Players must calculate the correct tip to leave their penguin waiter based on a percentage of the cost of their meals.

Here is an explanation about how to calculate a player's batting average.

Learn to use the Proportion Method to calculate percentage problems, then practice your skill at the bottom of the page. Extra practice is provided for solving problems with percents. The site allows you to check your answer after...

Heres a comprehensive review of the basics of algebra. WyzAnt includes lessons on varied topics, calculators that show step-by-step solutions, and interactive worksheets for practicing and testing your skills. Just choose a topic and use...