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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Percent as a Means to Compare Fractions

For Students 6th - 8th
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad uses fractions and percents to compare the contest results of the Squitters, little creatures who love to jump.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Great Golly Graphs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan asks students to create a survey project including graphs, questions, tables, and data analysis. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation and extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Middle School Math 6

For Students 6th
This all-interactive MSM 6 course is a complete and rigorous Grade 6 Mathematics course where the text is the support material, NOT the main content. The course includes instructional interactives, inline immediate-feedback (formative)...
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PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: Understanding Inflation: A Stop Motion Explainer, Parts 1 and 2

For Students 6th - 8th
Explore a real-life application of percentage-the math behind rates of inflation-in two animated videos about inflation from KQED. The first video provides an overview of inflation; the second explains the role of inflation in a healthy...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Science Today Breast Cancer Risks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The USA TODAY Snapshot? "Breast cancer risks" shows the percentage of women in several age categories that, statistically, develop breast cancer. Students will notice that the percentages increase as women get older. In this activity,...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee,rp 7.ee,rp Anna in d.c.

For Teachers 5th - 8th
The purpose of this task is to give young scholars an opportunity to solve a multi-step percentage problem that can be approached in many ways. Because the tax and tip in this problem are a fixed percentage of the cost of the meal, the...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S Id Math Test Grades

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ari has collected data on how much her classmates study each week and how well they did on their recent math test. Here is part of the data showing the percentage of each group (divided according to hours spent studying) who got B's or...
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PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: Percents Defined

For Students 6th - 8th
Learn how to calculate percent as a rate per 100 in this video from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students model percent with a 10 x 10 grid. After watching the video, they create a design or picture on a 10 x 10 grid,...
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PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: Indoor/outdoor Residential Water Use in California

For Students 6th - 8th
Compare data about indoor and outdoor residential water use in northern and southern sites in this infographic from KQED and the California Single Family Water Use Efficiency Study. The accompanying classroom activity helps students find...
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PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: The Math of Trash: Percents and Proportions

For Students 6th - 8th
Discover how percents and proportions help explain issues like climate change, composting, and zero waste in this video from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students estimate the percentage of various types of trash that...
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PBS

Pbs: Real Life Math: Physical Trainer

For Students 6th - 8th
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...
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American Presidency Project

American Presidency Project: 1940 Presidential Election

For Students 9th - 10th
See a map of the states which supported Franklin D. Roosevelt and which supported Wendell Willkie in the election of 1940. You can find a chart with the popular vote and percentage of vote for each candidate.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Catastrophes of Apostrophic Proportions

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An interactive exercise where students practice apostrophe use with plural nouns, singular and plural possessives, possessive pronouns, and irregular plural nouns. In each of the six sentences, students choose the correct apostrophe...
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill Global Education Holdings: How to Revise: Eliminating Passive Voice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An eleven-question quiz asking students to identify active and passive voice in sentences. Percentage grades and correct answers are displayed once answers are submitted.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Schools in Which All Kinds of Minds Can Grow

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As we discover more about how students learn and how different minds learn differently, our schools have a golden opportunity to increase the percentage of their students who experience true academic success.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Estimator Four

For Students 2nd - 8th
This applet game for two allows you to practice estimating at several different levels of accuracy. You can choose whole number addition, multiplication, percentages or any combination of the three.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Dice Table

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A dice-table activity introduces students to probability and to converting probability to a simple fraction, a decimal, and a percentage.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math a Review 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This StudyCards stack enables students to review concepts in algebra, arithmetic, and geometry, in preparation for the Math A Exam held in New York. They solve problems involving scientific notation, factoring, linear equations, rate of...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Science Today West Nile Killing More People

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After studying the USA TODAY Snapshot? "West Nile killing more people,"students will compare the number of West Nile cases in the United States over the past three years. From the data, percent increases and decreases from year to year...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Rational Number Rampage App

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This App helps students sharpen fraction, decimal, and percentage representation skills with three games: Rational Timer, Rational Match, and Percent Square.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Titanic Tales

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students interpret data tables and graphs. They find percentages, and create circle graphs to display data.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Grandparents and Special Friends Day

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson was designed for our Grandparents and Special Friends day. It can be used for any visitation day, or an open house. The lesson is designed to review percent of a whole and the sector of the circle representing the percentage....
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Number Line App

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This App provides a dynamic, visual representation of a number line. Students build skills in comparing numbers in a wide variety of forms (decimal, fractional, and percentage).
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Getting Started With Rational Number Rampage App

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Help students sharpen fraction, decimal, and percentage representation skills with three games: Rational Timer, Rational Match, and Percent Square. Build number sense and gain confidence with using fractions,decimals, and percents.

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