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Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages Got You Down? "Tri" This!
Students explore number sense by creating a math presentation in class. In this parts of a whole lesson, students define and discuss the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages before completing a problem worksheet in...
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Store Wide Sale
Students practice figuring percentages by solving written shopping problems. In this consumer math instructional activity, students read several scenarios dealing with items on sale and must figure out the new price. Students...
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A Fraction of the Possibilities
Students review the conversion of fractions to decimals, develop strategies to compare fractions perform complex calculations using ratio techniques similar to the construction of fractions.
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What's on Sale?
Students explore sale items. In this money and percent math lesson, students work in groups to locate food ads in the newspaper. Students identify sales and calculate final prices using percentage discounts. Students...
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If the World Were a Village Activities
Sixth graders complete activities about the book If the World Were a Village by David J. Smith. In this interdisciplinary lesson, 6th graders complete a math activity converting fractions into decimals and percentages and a geography...
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Estimation With Percents
Students examine percents. In this percents instructional activity, students will estimate percentages. Using advertisements from a newspaper, students problem solve to determine the final price of a sale item.
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Graphing
Students collect data to create different types of graphs-line, pie, and bar graphs. They use StarOffice 6.0 to create graphs.
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Using Negative Numbers
Sixth graders practice using negative numbers by completing number equations. For this math problem solving lesson, 6th graders discuss the different ways negative numbers can be used in a math problem and practice completing...