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Skittles Lab

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use Skittles as manipulatives to practice computing decimals from fractions, computing decimals into percentages, and creating bar graphs from gathered data.
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Basketball Calculating Percentage

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders calculate percentages, convert fractions to decimals, and decimals to fractions using information from a basketball game.
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Introduction to Percentages

For Students 5th - 6th
In this percentages worksheet, students are introduced to the concept of percentages as another way to represent fractions and decimals. Students read the instructions and examples and solve 20 problems. This is an online activity that...
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Decimals and Percents

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine numbers to change them from decimals to percents.  In this decimals and percents lesson, students complete a worksheet to understand the process of changing decimals to percents.
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Financial News

For Students 7th - 12th
In this financial word problems activity, students solve word problems involving decimals, interest, multiplication, and more. Students complete 7 problems.
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Stretching the Truth

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders visualize different percentages as parts of a whole on visual images. They observe alterations of photographs, and models of circles, squares and sets. This incredibly detailed, eight-page plan leads you through everything...
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Investigation--What Are My Chances?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate theoretical and experimental probability by conducting a series of experiments with multiple trials, comparing results, combining results and making conclusions. They express probabilities as fractions,...
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Largest Hamburger Ever?

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
If a 150 lb. person can comfortably eat and digest a 1 lb. burger, then how large would the person be who can comfortably eat and digest a 350 lb. burger? For a burger that size, it would take either a large person or a class of really...
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Assessment for the California Mathematics Standards Grade 7

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In need of an all-inclusive seventh grade math resource? Packed full of the topics necessary for Pre-Algebra the packet includes practice problems with different difficulty levels. It works great for any supplemental use needed...
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Math and Your Local Restaurant

For Teachers All
Connect ratios, fractions, scale factor, percents, and elapsed time to restaurants.
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Ordering Rational Numbers and Finding Their Approximate

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept of ordering rational numbers on a number line. They represent rational numbers as decimals and percents. Pupils create a foldable about converting fractions to decimals to percents, and use a...
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Penny

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the concept of equivalency. In this equivalents activity, students use pennies to show equivalency as they divide them into groups. Students also convert the pencils into decimals and fractions.
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The Right Ratio of Rest: Proportional Reasoning

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars see how NASA scientists are studying the circadian timing system to improve astronaut's physical and mental tasks while working in space. They demonstrate how fractions, decimals, and percents are related.
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The 20% of Beethoven

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Compare Beethoven's fifth symphony to latin music and disco. Learners will listen to and discuss the elements found in the first part of Beethoven's composition. They'll then look for the same elements in Tito Puente and Bee Gees songs....
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Numbers

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
The written form for 345 is three-hundred forty-five, where as the word form for 70% is seventy percent. Here, young mathematicians read 10 sentences and write the word form of each number in the sentences.
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Basketball

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Tap into the competitive nature of teenagers as your class practices setting up and solving rational equations. This activity starts with a specific ratio of games won to games played, then asks how many more games must be played to...
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Let's Go Shopping with $500

For Teachers 3rd
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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Instant Measurement Conversion

For Students 6th - 10th
In this measurement conversion instructional activity, learners answer multiple choice questions about conversions of fractions, minutes, percentages and more. Students complete 10 questions total.
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Solving Algebraic Equations

For Students 6th
For this algebraic equations worksheet, 6th graders solve and complete 9 different word problems that include various types of equations. First, they find consecutive even numbers and write an equation to solve. Then, students write a...
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Addition and Subtraction word problems

For Students 6th - 10th
In this word problems instructional activity, students solve addition, subtraction, money, decimals, and percentage word problems. Students solve 47 problems total.
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Percentages: Converting Fractions and Decimals to Percents

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students calculate percentages. In this percentages lesson, students count the total number of floor tiles covering a given space, measure a designated section of the room, and then calculate the percentage of the room this area covers.
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Comparing Percents of Numbers (A)

For Students 5th - 8th
For this inequalities practice worksheet, students use their math skills to compare 20 pairs of 3 percentage problems. Students solve the problems and fill in the blanks with greater than, less than, or equal to symbols.
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How to Calculate Discounts and Sales

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Teach discounts and sales with a straightforward learning exercise. After reviewing the concept, pupils solve word problems related to dollars and percentages. The second half of the sheet prompts learners to continue solving problems...
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Assessment For The California Mathematics Standards Grade 6

For Students 6th Standards
Test your scholars' knowledge of a multitude of concepts with an assessment aligned to the California math standards. Using the exam, class members show what they know about the four operations, positive and negative numbers, statistics...

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