Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Percents
This lesson explores the making of comparisons by using percents. In this lesson you will compare your class's favorite foods using percents. Middle schoolers will use cooperative groups to answer follow up questions about the...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Chapter Test Ratio, Proportion, and Percent
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking chapter test to assess your knowledge on ratios, proportions, and percents. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. After completing the test students can click the "Check It" button and...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Solving Proportions
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of solving proportions. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It" button...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Percent of a Number Grade 6
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find the percent of a number using a proportion or key word clues.
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Percent and Fractions: Ratio and Proportion
Activities and factsheets exploring ratios and proportions in everyday life. Interactive, colorful, and fun.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp Chess Club
Seventh graders use their knowledge of proportional relationships to determine the percent increase or decrease.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Expressing Percents in Words: Lesson 2
This lesson explains how percent proportions can be written using words and symbols. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Expressing Percents In Words."
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Percent Word Problems
Practice solving word problems involving percents. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: How Biodiverse Is Lake Superior? An Exercise in Proportions
An exercise in critical thinking, as well as practice in percents, proportions, and probabilities. Students research to gather information, then use their math skills to perform calculations on the data.
Other
The Education Center: Breakfast It's a Big Deal!
This is a PDF worksheet where students use a real world scenario to find percents using proportional reasoning.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Percents
This lesson provides a variety of activities for the middle schoolers to experience using percents. The usage of percents is presented in the context of situations that occur in a student's daily life. A kinesthetic activity is also...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Solving Proportions
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of solving propotions. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 3 Solving Proportions
Use Glencoe's Math Course 3 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of solving proportions. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Is It Really That Big?
Just how tall is that object? For this lesson, students will participate in an outdoor group activity using shadows to extend their knowledge of proportions to solve problems dealing with similarity. The cooperative learning groups will...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Fashion Store: Fractions and Decimals
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario by picking out clothing. Those skills include calculating percentages using fractions and calculating the new cost of a product after a...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Are You Interest Ed?
In this lesson, middle schoolers will explore simple interest through the use of studying loans and savings accounts. The students will generate the formula I=P x r x t to calculate simple interest on loans. Middle schoolers will become...
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Penguin Waiter (Calculating Percents Game)
Players must calculate the correct tip to leave their penguin waiter based on a percentage of the cost of their meals.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Algebra 1: Semester 1: Equations
A learning module through which students learn about equations including the following: Translating words into equations and equations into words, The Properties of Equality to help solving equations, Techniques for solving simple...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Markup and Commission Word Problems
Practice solving word problems involving price markups and commission fees. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Discount, Tax, and Tip Word Problems
Practice solving word problems involving price discounts, taxes, and tip calculations. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.