Balanced Assessment
Dog Tags
Class members demonstrate a proficiency with conditional probabilities through this task. Individuals calculate probabilities using multiplication and addition. They also distinguish between repetition and non-repetition while...
CCSS Math Activities
Sandwich Shop
Eat up the task on systems of equations. Given information on the total number of sandwiches and the total income, learners write and solve a linear system of equations to find the number of each type of sandwich sold at a shop. They...
Statistics Education Web
Walk the Line
How confident are you? Explore the meaning of a confidence interval using class collected data. Learners analyze data and follow the steps to determine a 95 percent confidence interval. They then interpret the meaning of the confidence...
Federal Reserve Bank
Lesson 3: A Fresh Start
The members of your economics class may be busy earning graduation credits, but the credit they should be concerned about is their financial credit. The third lesson in a unit about Hurricane Katrina and other events that can result in...
Curated OER
7th Grade Math Circle Graphs
Seventh graders are able to develop (synthesis) pie graphs with the class and on their own. They are told that pie charts are a graphic representation of material that can be given in the form of parts of a whole by using...
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Percentages, Fractions and Decimals
In this algebra instructional activity, students are asked to convert between percents, fractions and decimals. They calculate interest as it relates to real world scenario. There are 5 a,b,c questions.
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Race and Gender in the Media
Students analyze race and gender in the media. For this algebra lesson, students apply their knowledge of percents and ratios to determine the representation of race and gender in the media. They discuss and graph their data.
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Tools for Integrating Math and Engineering: Weighin' In
Young scholars collect and analyze data on a fictional cereal company's products. In this measurement lesson, students collect data from cereal boxes (weight, volume, surface area, etc.) to determine if the boxes labels correctly inform...
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Percentages
In this algebra worksheet, students convert fractions to percents and take the percent of mixed numbers and whole numbers. There are 14 percent questions on this worksheet.
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Prime Time Math: Emergency
Eighth graders, while using Prime Time Math: Emergency software, use math and medical data to participate in the diagnosis of a girl. Just like the medical team in the story, they will be using math to respond to a medical emergency- a...
Math Mammoth
Mental Math in Percent Problems
In this math worksheet, learners are given 21 percentage problems which they are to work out mentally. There are story problems, tables and simple conversion.
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Math--Fractions and Percentages
In this fractions and percentages worksheet, students write down the percentages of a pie chart and change then into fractions. Students change 7 fraction sentences into a percentage sentence.
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Percentages
In this percentages worksheet, students read about how to express numbers as fractions, convert to decimal form and find the percent. They practice by solving four problems using the method they read about.
Raytheon
Percentages
In this percentages learning exercise, learners complete percentage word problems dealing with money, division, fractions, and more. Students complete 54 problems.
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Percentages Introduction
In this percentages learning exercise, students color 25% of 100 small squares blue, 35% red and 30% yellow. Students figure out how many squares they have left and then what percent of the 100 squares are left. Students then work out 5...
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Solar Storms-Fractions and Percentages
In this solar storms worksheet, students find the percentage of X-Flares and Halo CMEs that occurred in solar storms and complete a Venn Diagram comparing the numbers of each.
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Circle Graphs and Percents
In this circle graph and percentages learning exercise, students fill in a chart, write percentages, calculate discounts, and more. Students complete 4 sets of problems.
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Percentage Practice
In this percentage worksheet, students find the percent of a two-digit and three-digit whole number, change the percent to a decimal, and multiply. Students solve twenty problems.
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Scaling Down Art
Learners change the scale of a work of art using ratios, percentages, and proportions. While this is technically an art lesson, there is quite a bit of mathematics involved in converting to the correct scale.
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Pies and Percentages--Learning About Pie Graphs
In this pie graph worksheet, learners draw a pie graph for the zookeeper with the data he collected, choose a different color for each animal species and make a key to the graph.
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Four Decimal, Fraction, and Percent Activities
In this fraction worksheet, students solve problems presented in four different activities. The activities cover percentages, fractions, decimals, currency exchange, and value added tax. A card "game" is one of the...
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Solar Storm Energy and Pie Graphs
In this solar storm energy and pie graphs instructional activity, students solve 5 problems using pie graphs that show the amount of solar energy that is converted into radiation, kinetic energy, flare energy and flare energy that is...
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Math: Currency Exchange Rates
Sixth graders apply the division and multiplication of decimals to convert dollars to various international currencies. In a travel simulation activity, they convert money, distance, and temperatures. During their "trip," students...
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Solar Storms: Odds, Fractions and Percentages
In this solar storms activity, learners read about the correlation between different astronomical events to find patters and new 'laws' of nature. Students use given statistical information about solar flares and coronal mass ejections...