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Newspaper Association of America
Power Pack: Lessons in Civics, Math, and Fine Arts
Newspaper in Education (NIE) Week honors the contributions of the newspaper and is celebrated in the resource within a civics, mathematics, and fine arts setting. The resource represents every grade from 3rd to 12th with questions...
101 Questions
Combining Coupons
Everyone likes to save money! Use your math skills to figure out just how much you can save on a pair of sweet shoes. A vendor is running a percent off sale, with a percent off coupon, and a specific dollar amount coupon—and lets you use...
Teach Engineering
About Accuracy and Approximation
How accurate are robots? Groups draw lines by moving robots backwards and forwards by one rotation of the wheels. Using the appropriate formula, they determine the percent error in the length of the lines in relation to the calculated...
David Pleacher
Candy Math Fun
Few things can motivate children to learn like the promise of a sweet and tasty treat. Given a bag of M&M®s, Skittles®, or other colorful candy, students first predict the contents of the bag before counting the pieces,...
Pedago Net
Acing Math
Deal me in! Elementary and middle school classes will love this selection of math games, all involving a deck of cards. From fractions to exponents to rounding up and down, the games cover such a variety of skills that your classroom...
Illustrative Mathematics
Discounted Books
Adolescents love to shop, especially when an item is discounted. Here, shoppers only have a set amount of money to spend. Will they be able to make a purchase with the discount and tax added in? Percent discounts can be calculated...
Curated OER
Basketball
Tap into the competitive nature of teenagers as your class practices setting up and solving rational equations. This activity starts with a specific ratio of games won to games played, then asks how many more games must be played to...
Biology Corner
Pipe Cleaner Babies
Ever been told you have your father's eyes? How did it happen? Young biologists get a hands-on experience in meiotic gene expression with a fun pairs-based activity. Participants use pipe cleaner chromosomes with trait beads to make...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Percents 2
Twenty-eight problems present a variety of percent topics: percents as fractions, improper, and mixed numbers, percents as decimals, simple interest, and percent of increase/decrease. They are given with each step to the solution...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Percents 1
Twenty-five problems present a variety of percent topics: percents as fractions, improper, and mixed numbers, percents as decimals, simple interest, and percent of increase/decrease. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly...
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: What's a Percentage?
Use this site to learn about percents, and how they relate to decimals and fractions with this interactive online lesson. You will learn about percents, convert percents into fractions and decimals, and find equal parts of a whole.
The Math League
The Math League: Percent & Probability
This tutorial gives definitions and examples of percents and probability and covers percent as a fraction and percent as a decimal.
Help Algebra
Help algebra.com: Percents
Converting percents to and from decimals and fractions is demonstrated in detailed examples. Once the concept is understood, you can use it to solve equations that contain percents.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Converting Between Decimals, Fractions, and Percents
Scroll down to just below the middle of the lesson for an in-depth lesson on converting fractions to percents. Works through numerous examples step by step and shows what happens when the "decimal expansion" doesn't end when converting.
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Percent of a Number
This Math Page tutorial explains how to find the percent of a number and features a practice to check comprehension.
Other
Math score.com: Math Practice Problems Percent of Quantity
On this site, students can practice solving three types of percent problems and check their answers.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Ntcm: Math Challenge: Perplexing Percentages
Test your bargin shopping skills by figuring out which discount offers the greatest savings. A one page activity from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families series that focuses on understanding and calculating percentages. Connections...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Percents Greater Than 100 or Less Than 1
In this activity, students practice writing numbers as fractions, decimals, and percents.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
This activity gives students an opportunity to explore the relationship between fractions, decimals, and percents.
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Multiplying and Dividing by Powers of 10: The Meaning of Percent
This excellent math resource explains and defines the meaning of percent. Multiplying and dividing by a power of 10 is incorporated as a preview to understanding scientific notation.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Percent Square
In this activity, students use the Rational Number Rampage application to play a game and explore fractions, decimals, and percents. They are shown a hundred square grid with different number of squares colored and are required to...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Calculating Sales Tax
Dr. Math is asked about calculating sales tax. A quick and easy to follow explanation of how it works using fractions, decimals, ratio, and percent.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Converting a Percent to a Decimal
Learners practice percent conversions to decimals. The resource displays the percent score of correct answers, as well as running totals of correct and incorrect answers.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Converting a Decimal to a Percent
The learning game has students practice converting a decimal to a percent. Participants get to see a percent score of correct answers, as well as running totals of correct and incorrect answers.