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Math Worksheets Land

Percent Error and Percent Increase - Step-by-Step Lesson

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Half a foot difference may not mean much, but converting that to an 8% change puts it into perspective for young minds. The lesson discusses the idea of converting information into percents to discover errors made and how much it...
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Worksheet
Math Worksheets Land

Markups and Markdowns Word Problems - Guided Lesson

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Show your shoppers that knowing how to calculate the percent increase or decrease of an item is a handy tool to know when they are looking for a good sale. Use as a quick three example introduction to the topic. The guided practice comes...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

The Price of Bread

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
As part of an initiative to strengthen our young adults' financial understanding, this problem explores the cost of bread and minimum wage since the 1930s. Learners are asked to find the percent increase from each year and compare it...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Percent Rate of Change

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
If mathematicians know the secret to compound interest, why aren't more of them rich? Young mathematicians explore compound interest with exponential functions in the twenty-seventh installment of a 35-part module. They calculate future...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

A Fraction as a Percent

For Teachers 6th Standards
It is all about being equivalent. Class members convert between fractions, decimals, and percents. By using visual models, scholars verify their conversions in the 25th portion of a 29-part series.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

The Percent Equation: Soccer Stadium

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A soccer-themed interactive challenges mathematicians to solve five questions involving percent equations. Question types include multiple-choice, fill in the blank, true or false and a discussion. A color-coded stadium with movable...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Percent of a Number: Acid Solution

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Mathematicians answer five questions about percents, ratios, and proportions with help from an interactive graduated cylinder. Question types include multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and discussion. 
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Public Schools of North Carolina

Math Stars: A Problem-Solving Newsletter Grade 4

For Students 4th Standards
Fresh off the press, these math newsletters will challenge the problem solving skills of your young mathematicians. With an incredibly wide variety of questions covering the topics of arithmetic and geometry, these unique...
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Interactive
Chemistry Collective

Virtual Lab: Cola and Sucrose Concentration Problem

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Recreate the secret Coca-Cola formula in a virtual lab. Young scholars create the solution and then calculate sucrose concentrations in terms of percent mass, molarity, molality, and mole fraction. Then using density, learners determine...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Prices Involving Discounts: Save Money with Coupons!

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Nine questions make up an interactive that challenges scholars to identify new prices after discounts. Question types include fill in the blank and multiple choice. A fully-functional tool assists participants in solving word problems....
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Curated OER

Applications With Percents

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this math worksheet, students solve the word problems using percents. They pay special attention to choosing the correct operation for each.
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Worksheet
Math Worksheets Land

Percent Error and Percent Increase - Independent Practice Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Give your learners a small taste of the business world by calculating percent error and percent increase. The resource provides several practice problems to give your mathematicians practice setting up the ratio to convert to percents....
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Math Worksheets Land

Percent Error and Percent Increase - Guided Lesson

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
When prices and numbers change, can you calculate by how much? Here is a worksheet that introduces the idea of percent change and percent error to calculator how much change the information goes through. Use the worked-out solutions to...
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Math Worksheets Land

Multistep Ratio and Percent Word Problems - Independent Practice Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Math in real life IS a thing and your learners can see how when they practice ratio word problems. Use the handy ratio to convert between measurements and figure out the answer when given a change of information. Resource also comes with...
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Mt. San Antonio Collage

Quadratic Equations and Their Applications

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Show high schoolers there is more to quadratic functions than just formulas and parabolas. Connect the math to realistic application problems with a resource that has learners consider such situations as a ball hit in the air, the...
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Curated OER

Fractions Forever!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Middle schoolers identify proper, improper fractions, and mixed numbers.  They reduce fractions to their lowest terms. They add and subtract fractions with different denominators, and multiply and divide fractions, as well as decimal...
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Curated OER

It Has Been Rubbish For Years

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students are presented with the problems of percentages and focus upon numbers in contrast to 100. They calculate problems with money and are engaged with the use of games as a teaching tool. Students also interpret data as presented in...
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Organizer
Curated OER

Decimals, Percent and Scientific Notation

For Students 9th
In this decimals, percent and scientific notation worksheet, 9th graders solve various types of problems that range from shading an indicated part of a shape to calculating using scientific notation to express their answer. They express...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Percent / Percentage Word Problems (Part 2)

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online math worksheet, students solve word problems associated with percentage. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into difficulties. A terrific teaching tool!
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Math Mammoth

Fractions, Percents, and Decimals

For Students 6th - 7th
In this percents activity, students complete 3 charts in which percents, decimals and fractions are converted. Students also solve 20 problems with the changing of percents to decimals or fractions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fractions, Decimals and Percents

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate the differences when using decimals, fractions, and percents. They focus on the process of using them in real problems and how to convert them from one form to another.
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National Research Center for Career and Technical Education

Finance: Depreciation (Double Declining)

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Of particular interest to a group of business and finance pupils, this lesson explores depreciation of automobile values by comparing the double declining balance to the straight line method. Mostly this is done through a slide...
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Common Core Sheets

Finding Percent of Fractions

For Students 6th Standards
Sixth graders read word problems that involve finding the percent of an item, given the fraction. 
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Noyce Foundation

Percent Cards

For Teachers 6th Standards
Explore different representations of numbers. Scholars convert between fractions, decimals, and percents, and then use these conversions to plot the values on a horizontal number line.