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Finding Percent-Decimal Method
In this finding percent worksheet, students use the decimal method and solve 5 problems using work space provided. Answers are included.
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Framing a House
If members of your class wonder where they can use the math they learn in middle school, let them discover the answer. Learners apply geometry concepts of scale and measure to calculate the costs of framing a house addition.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Simple and Compound Interest
Your learners will get lots of practice calculating simple and compound interest by the end of this lesson. Simple explanations and examples lead learners through the concepts and steps of calculating simple and compound interest...
Newspaper Association of America
By the Numbers: Mathematical Connections in Newspapers for Middle-Grade Students
A cross-curricular resource teaches and reinforces mathematical concepts with several activities that use parts of a newspaper. Scholars use scavenger hunts to find the different ways math is used in the paper along with using data...
Open Text Book Store
Arithmetic for College Students: Worksheets
Loaded with concepts ranging from multiplying decimals to converting units to solving problems using the order of operations, a thorough practice packet is perfect for a fifth or sixth grade math classroom.
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Venn Diagrams & Word Problems
Students explore the concept of Venn Diagrams through word problems. In this Venn Diagram lesson, students solve word problems about groups of people using Venn Diagrams. Students use survey results about MySpace and Facebook in a Venn...
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Concept: Percent ... A Special Fraction
In this percent worksheet, students review and study what percent means, what percent strips are, making sense of percents and estimating percents. Students complete ten word problems.
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Percent Equation 1
In this percent equations worksheet, 7th graders translate word problems to number equations and then solve them. They write proportions to solve percent equations. This two-page worksheet contains 9 problems. Answers...
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Are You 100%?
Students use decimals, fractions, and percents to solve problems in a real world setting.
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Proportional Reasoning: Ratio Applications
In this ratio applications worksheet, 8th graders solve and complete 24 various types of problems that include proportional reasoning. First, they solve each pair of similar figures for the given variable. Then, students write and solve...
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Colorful Fractions
Students use charts to show fractions. In this fractions and percents lesson, students review fractions, percents and ratios. Students create tables and color the cells to make different fractions. Students answer...
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Relating Percents, Decimals, And Fractions
In this relating percents, decimals, and fractions worksheet, pupils, with a partner, problem solve and calculate the answers to twelve word problems and mathematical equations.
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Problem Solving with Multiplication and Division II: Post Test
In this multiplication and division worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions where they problem solve multiplication and division problems in word problems. Students answer 10 questions total.
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Math and Climate Worksheet
In this math and climate worksheet, students complete a set of 10 word problems, all related to math and climate. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Applications of Percent
In this percentage activity, 6th graders are given equations to solve for percentages. Students complete 4 word problems using the information that is provided for each equation.
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Real World Problems
Eighth graders solve real world problems. In this solving real world problems lesson, 8th graders decorate a school cafeteria for a dance. Students determine the number of balloons needed to put a balloon every foot for the...
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Sky High Fuel
In this fuel price worksheet, students examine a chart that shows fuel prices between 2001 and 2005. They compute the answers to 3 word problems in which they work with finding average. They complete an extension activity in which they...
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The Birthday Problem
In this probability worksheet, high schoolers solve 1 word problem about birthdays. Students determine the number of people needed for a 50% chance of two people sharing the same birthday.
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Groundwater Basics
Groundwater is an essential natural resource, not to mention a fascinating topic to study. Here is a series of twelve amazing lessons on the water source and how we use it in our daily lives. Concepts require higher math and physics...
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Money Math: Lessons for Life
Students explore money as it applies to salary, paychecks, and taxes. In this essential mathematics lesson, students explore how math is used in various careers, how income takes are calculated and other important life lessons in math.
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Your Money and Your Math
In this algebra instructional activity, students calculate interest based on a certain amount of capital, sale or item purchased. They convert percents to decimals and perform the correct calculations to find their answer. There are 20...
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Corn Field Math
Students complete problems dealing with whole numbers, fractions and percents. After exploring the history of corn and related farming vocabulary, students work in pairs to solve multi-step problems. They incorporate the use of number...
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IRA RMD Problem
In this algebra activity, students work with percents and RMD as it relates to a retirement account. They calculate how much money is taken out of an IRA based on 10% of the total amount. This activity contains 1 problem and an...
Los Angeles County Office of Education
Assessment for the California Mathematics Standards Grade 5
Test young mathematicians' knowledge with an assessment aligned to California's fifth grade state standards. The exam covers a multitude of concepts including fractions and decimals, positive and negative numbers, measurement; and...