This lesson ask students to calculate the percentage change in military strength over the last two decades, hypothesize economic (and non-economic) explanations for these changes, test hypothetical explanations by reading an economic...

In this activity, students examine data and make graphs to represent the data. They interpret the data and answer questions. They also learn to calculate percentages and angle measures.

In this activity, students can use percentages and proportional reasoning skills to solve problems.

In this experiment, students are asked to collect data in order to prepare a calibration curve showing the relationship between the percentage of salt and the mass of salt water. Using this graph, students will be able to determine the...

The students will be working primarily with the concept of % of a number. They will calculate the number of people expected to vote when given the population and % of registered voters along with historical data on percentage of voter...

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.

Students explore the likelihood of events using circle graphs and percentages in this interactive web lesson.

This lesson focuses on understanding fractions, decimals and percentages as the math skills, and saving money and compounding interest as the economic skills. [PDF]

Conversion calculators for English language learners. Includes calculators for converting temperature, currency, measurement, time, distances, and percentages. Java is required.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how to solve real-world problems involving percentages.

"Rated 'M' for middle school," Math TV invites you to tune in each week for videos of word problems being solved. Back episodes are available in subjects such as percentages, number sense, and fractions. Watch a problem worked out, then...

The practice problems examine percent and decimal forms. Word problems that investigate percentages are also included.

The mathematics resource explores number sense and numeration. Learners examine ratios, rates, and percentages.

A performance task asking students to see two different ways to look at percentages, as an increase and as a decrease of an original amount.

Young scholars use percentage and addition to answer this real-world math performance task: Kendall bought a vase that was priced at $450. In addition, she had to pay 3% sales tax. How much did she pay for the vase?

In this lesson plan, students explore the concepts of fractions, percentages, and decimals by creating dances using locomotor and non-locomotor movements.

Print or create worksheets or flashcards to assess students' understanding of ratio concepts, useage of ratio reasoning, and percentages.

For this lesson, learners will learn what probability is; ways to express probability as a ratio, a decimal, and a percentage; and how to solve problems based on probability.

Explore different representations for fractions including improper fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, and percentages. Additionally, there are length, area, region, and set models.

You may have seen the term APR, or annual percentage rate, used in reference to everything from mortgages and auto loans to credit cards. In this piece, we look at credit card APRs which you've probably seen listed on your monthly...

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.

On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario by picking out clothing. Those skills include calculating percentages using fractions and calculating the new cost of a product after a...

On this interactive website, students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario at the pyramids. Those skills include showing percentages as fractions and decimals and interpreting data in a sector graph.

The Central Bureau of Statistics presents a chart from 1882-2000 of the Jewish Population in Israel and across the world.