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Treasury Direct: Money Math: Secret of Becoming a Millionaire [Pdf]
This lesson focuses on understanding fractions, decimals and percentages as the math skills, and saving money and compounding interest as the economic skills. [PDF]
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Fraction Four
Students play a generalized version of connect four, gaining the chance to place a piece after simplifying fractions, converting fractions to decimals and percentages, and answering algebra questions involving fractions. Choose...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Fisher Boat: Multiplying Fractions
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario on a fishing boat. Those skills include using everyday percentages as fractions and decimals, and multiplying simple fractions by whole numbers.
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Percent and Fractions: Ratio and Proportion
Activities and factsheets exploring ratios and proportions in everyday life. Interactive, colorful, and fun.
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...
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Percentages
A selection of teacher resources dealing with percentages. There are worksheets and PowerPoints available to download.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Baseball: Percentages
Students will compare percentages and convert them to fractions and decimals.
Yale University
Solving Problems by the Hundreds
This site contains a study of percentage and its applications in the study of consumer related problems. Problems involving sales tax are included. Examples, explanation, solutions and a bibliography are also included in the site.
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Dan's Math: Basic Skills Topics
College professor Dan Bach offers a review of various basic topics in arithmetic, pre-algebra, and algebra. Order of operations, exponents, square roots, variables, and combining terms are just a few of the many topics covered.
Math Medics
S.o.s. Math: Algebra
This lesson provides basic instruction on the major concepts in algebra. Content includes a focus on fractions, units of conversion, complex numbers, quadratic equations, factorization and roots of polynomials, solving equations, systems...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: What's in That Box of Cookies, Anyway?
In this video segment from TV 411, learn how to read nutrition labels on food containers and calculate the calorie content of different serving amounts.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Fraction Models
An interactive game to learn fractions less than one, greater than or equal to 1, which are written as mixed numbers and their equivalent decimal and percentage forms
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.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Rational Number Rampage App
This App helps students sharpen fraction, decimal, and percentage representation skills with three games: Rational Timer, Rational Match, and Percent Square.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Getting Started With Rational Number Rampage App
Help students sharpen fraction, decimal, and percentage representation skills with three games: Rational Timer, Rational Match, and Percent Square. Build number sense and gain confidence with using fractions,decimals, and percents.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Moving With Mathematics [Pdf]
In this lesson, students explore the concepts of fractions, percentages, and decimals by creating dances using locomotor and non-locomotor movements.
The Math League
The Math League: Percent & Probability
This tutorial gives definitions and examples of percents and probability and covers percent as a fraction and percent as a decimal.
PBS
Pbs: Real Life Math: Physical Trainer
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...
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Solving Problems "By the Hundreds"
The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute site contains various math exercises relating to percentage and consumer-related problems. An explanation of sales tax, a related problem and answer are given.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Design Your Own Bedroom
Many students dream of designing their ideal bedroom. In this exercise, students will be required to limit their designs by size (as a specific volume) and price (a specific amount). They must design the floor plan, including furniture...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Living With Diabetes
A patient discusses diabetes and how he manages his carbohydrate intake in this video segment from TV 411.
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Percent of a Number
This Math Page tutorial explains how to find the percent of a number and features a practice to check comprehension.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Fraction Quiz
This activity allows the student to practice simplifying, converting, and multiplying decimals, percentages, and fractions. There are 3 levels of difficulty and the time limit may be set from no limit to 60 seconds. Additional...
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: What's a Fraction
Use this interactive lesson to learn about fractions. You will find equivalent fractions, compare fractions, and more. Immediate feedback is given to your answers. Links to related videos.