We see percents everywhere! Building a solid understanding of their meaning is important to future mathematics, but also as citizens. Young scholars practice rewriting decimals, percents, and fractions. They also determine percents of a...

Free yourself from the shackles of traditional math lessons. Young mathematicians investigate race, gender, and age differences in California's prison system. They use provided graphics to compare the prison population with the state's...

Math and medicine go hand-in-hand. After viewing several infographics on historical adult obesity rates, pupils consider how they have changed over time. They then use percentages to create a new graph and write a list of questions the...

What happens when you have a recipe and need to up the measurements? Here is a lesson that explains how to use ratios to convert measurements and percents with worked out problems. Also provided are additional resources and practice...

Your learners will get lots of practice calculating simple and compound interest by the end of this lesson. Simple explanations and examples lead learners through the concepts and steps of calculating simple and compound interest...

The probability of learning from this instructional activity is high! Learners calculate probabilities as numbers and as decimals. They see how to use a complement to find a probability and even try a simple geometric probability problem.

Pie isn't just for eating! Scholars learn to create pie charts and circle graphs to represent data. Given raw data, learners determine the percent of the whole for each category and then figure out the degree of the circle that percent...

The written form for 345 is three-hundred forty-five, where as the word form for 70% is seventy percent. Here, young mathematicians read 10 sentences and write the word form of each number in the sentences.

Address key vocabulary in the seventh grade Common Core Math Standards with this comprehensive list. A series of word cards is also provided that supports each term with images and examples, making this an excellent tool for teaching the...

Explains what rates and ratios are and how they are different. Shows how to solve an example problem about ratios and presents a video demonstrating how to show a ratio as a fraction or a decimal. [1:52]