TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Decimals, Fractions & Percentages
Students learn about and practice converting between fractions, decimals and percentages. Using a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot and a touch sensor, each group inputs a fraction of its choosing. Team members convert this same fraction into a...
Other
Active Maths Limited: Fractions, Decimals & Percentages
Here are two excellent, interactive, teaching resources that visually demonstrate equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Obi Wan Adobe: Engineering for Strength
Students conduct an experiment to determine how varying the composition of a construction material affects its strength. They make several adobe bricks with differing percentages of sand, soil, fibrous material and water. They test the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Students as Scientists
This curricular unit contains two lessons that let students actually do the work of scientists as they design their own experiments to answer questions they generate. In the first lesson and its associated activity, students conduct a...
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Percent and Fractions: Percentages
Tutorial teaches students about percents and fractions.
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Percent and Fractions: Comparing Fractions and Percentages
Learn about the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentage.
Can Teach
Can Teach: t.v. Math
At this site young scholars will practice collecting data and transferring the data into percentages. Lesson plan indicated for 6th grade.
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Probability
Use fractions and percentages to solve probability problems. Skillswise provides five factsheets, four quizzes, four worksheets, and a game pertaining to probability.
Microsoft
Microsoft Education Virtual Tour: Batter Up!
This downloadable (2.7 MB Microsoft PowerPoint file) project helps students apply their knowledge of fractions and decimals to the game of baseball. They compute batting averages and hitting percentages and participate in a simulated...
Teaching Treasures Publications
Teaching Treasures: Year Eight Nine Math (Page 1)
Review a variety of number sense skills using this interactive worksheet. Concepts include greatest common factor, lowest common multiple, rounding to the nearest thousandth, and determining percent. Answers can be checked immediately...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Baseball Math
Learn more about baseball and math when you check out this resource. It provides a lesson plan for upper elementary to middle school students where they will use their skills in percentages, decimals and combinations.
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Percent and Fractions: Ratio and Proportion
Activities and factsheets exploring ratios and proportions in everyday life. Interactive, colorful, and fun.