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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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What's on Sale?
Young scholars explore sale items. In this money and percent math lesson, students work in groups to locate food ads in the newspaper. Young scholars identify sales and calculate final prices using percentage discounts. ...
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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 instructional activity, 6th graders complete a math activity converting fractions into decimals and percentages and...
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Hot Shots 2
Students simplify fractions. They convert fractions to decimals. Students comprehend the double number line and how to use it proportionately. They convert fractions to percentages using the double number line. Students use the...
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And Around We Go!
Sixth graders conduct a survey and collect data to construct a bar graph that will then be changed into a circle graph. With the bar graph, 6th graders compare estimated fractions and percentages and estimate percentages. With the circle...
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Getting Percentible
This unit explores the connections between percentages, decimals, and fractions. It focuses on strategies for solving problems involving percentages and applies these strategies to real life contexts.
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Finding Percent When Given A Fraction
Seventh graders calculate percentages when given a fraction. They convert a percentage to a fraction. All of this be done by each student's ability to read the graphs made available by the spreadsheet information.
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The Clumsy Tiler N (Fractions)
Students explore patterns and geometric sequencing. Students devise and use problem solving strategies to explore situations mathematically. Students solve real life problems. They demonstrate, with cardboard pieces, fraction and...
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Math Worksheet
Middle schoolers complete the attached worksheet as a form of assessment after this math lesson, students answer various math questions where they find multiples, work with decimals, count money, find percentages, and practice with...
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What Are the Odds?
Middle schoolers identify and interpret various ways of expressing probability as a decimal, fraction, percent, or ratio. They solve problems based on probability as they apply to real world applications.
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The Stock Market-Tracking and Picking Stocks
Pupils interpret the stock market. They pick preferable stocks based on price to earnings ratios listed in the quotes. They practice using fractions and decimals to calculate the cost of selling and buying various stocks using stock...
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Percents
Students explore the concept of percents. In this percents lesson, students discuss the prefix cent and words that contain that prefix. Students make bead necklaces and determine the percentages of certain beads in relation to the necklace.
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Instant Measurement Conversion
In this measurement conversion worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions about conversions of fractions, minutes, percentages and more. Students complete 10 questions total.
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Mental Methods
In this mental methods worksheet, students determine the correct answer when multiplying fractions, percents and decimals. They use mental math to solve problems.
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Money Circulation: A Story of Trade and Commerce
Students are introduced to the meaning, symbolism, and value of the quarter. They determine the percentage of total monetary value held in quarters and graph the results. Students infer about the U.S. Mint's distrubution of coins. They...
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Grid and Percent It
Students explore percent. For this percent lesson, students investigate how to represent percentages on a hundreds grid. Working independently, students solve mathematical problems involving percentages.
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Estimation With Percents
Students examine percents. For this percents lesson, 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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Ratios
In this ratios worksheet, learners are given the percentages and have to provide the ratios, fractions, and decimals for each number. Students complete 40 problems.
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Fra-Per-Dec
Students explore the concept of ordering fractions and finding equivalent fractions. In this ordering fractions and finding equivalent fractions lesson, students play a card game where students must collect 5 cards with equivalent...
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Finding the Percent of a Number in Fish Body Weight
Middle schoolers use fractions to find the weight of fish. They use percentages to determine the correct amount to feed them. They organize their data into a graph and shares with the class.
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This is to That
Students look at ratio, what it means for numbers or objects to be in a given ratio, and how ratios and fractions are related. They write and solve story problems which involve whole numbers, using addition, subtraction, multiplication,...
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Parting Ways
Students become part of the solution as they practice figuring percents. The number of men versus women present in the room and their heights can be used to form the basis of this investigation.
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Equivalent Numbers
Students work together matching numbers on index cards. They must match numbers in different forms, such a fractions and percentages. They compete with other groups in the class to get the most correct.
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Free Cell
Fourth graders use algebra to begin solving a problem. The problem has a real world application to engage learners. The main skill is converting fractions and decimals. Also finding the right number sentence for the word problem is...