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.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Ratios & Percentages: Converting Percents to Decimals
The mathematics tutorial examines how to convert percents to decimals. Students learn about the concept through notes, examples, and practice problems.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Ratios & Percentages: Converting Fractions to Decimals
The mathematics tutorial examines how to convert fractions to decimals. Students learn about the concept through notes, examples, and practice problems.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Percentages
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.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Percent to Decimal Calculator
Input the percent value that you would like to convert to a decimal. This calculator divides by 100 to convert percents to decimal values.
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...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: The Magic Number and the Hepta Tree
Use your calculator to help you solve this challenge at this one page website. You can check your solution with only one click of the mouse.
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...
Help Algebra
Help algebra.com: Percents
Converting percents to and from decimals and fractions is demonstrated in detailed examples. Once the concept is understood, you can use it to solve equations that contain percents.
Math Slice
Math Slice: Percentage Worksheets
This tool allows you to create worksheets where students rewrite numbers as decimals, percents and fractions.
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Multiplying and Dividing by Powers of 10: The Meaning of Percent
This excellent math resource explains and defines the meaning of percent. Multiplying and dividing by a power of 10 is incorporated as a preview to understanding scientific notation.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: All About Percents and Ratios
This AAA Math tutorial covers calculating percents, relationships of percents to fractions and decimals, and uses of percents.
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...
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Basics of Percent
Video instructional activity [8:11] explains the basic concept of percents. Provides numerous problems for students to practice what they've learned.
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.
BBC
Bbc Bitesize: Gcse Edexcel: Probability
Find out how probabilities are written as fractions, decimals or percentages on a scale from 0 to 1. Knowing basic facts about equally likely outcomes can help to solve more complicated problems.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Elementary Math: Virtual Manipulatives: Decimal Tiles
This is a fun way for students to explore and understand how parts make up a whole. Explore fractions, percentages and decimals with this game.
Math Slice
Math Slice: Percent Grid Worksheets
This tool allows you to create worksheets where students rewrite the amounts of shaded hundred-square grids as decimals or percents.
Quia
Quia: Common Fraction & Equivalent Percents Matching
Do you need practice learning and remembering percents and their common fraction equivalents? Use this matching game to practice. When you finish click the start over button and an entirely new set is produced. There is a link to a list...
Quia
Quia: Common Fraction & Equivalent Percents Flash Cards
Do you need practice learning and remembering percents and their common fraction equivalents? Use this flash card game to practice. When you finish click the start over button and an entirely new set is produced. There is even a link to...
Quia
Quia:common Fraction & Equivalent Percents
Do you need practice learning and remembering percents and their common fraction equivalents? Use this concentration game to practice. When you finish click the start over button and an entirely new set is produced. There is a link to a...
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
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...
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.