Percent Box

Post the names of movies that have sequels around the room and ask questions, which the students will answer by going to stand by the name of the movie that fits best. Then work with your class to analyze revenue from each film and...

Take young mathematicians' understanding of percents into the real world with this series of word problems. Involving a variety of contexts from calculating scores on math tests and savings account interest, to determining sale prices...

Increase the percent of pupils that are fluent in solving change problems with an activity that asks class members to look at problems that involve either increases or decreases and to express the change in terms of the percent of the...

Searching for a way to improve young mathematicians' problem solving skills? Look no further. This comprehensive collection of word problem worksheets has exactly what you need to help students apply their understanding of fractions,...

The main confusion with percent change is with setting up the problem. Show your learners how to use proportions to solve for the percent change and how to organize the information correctly. The lesson uses the scale factor method to...

The Common Core is all about ratios and proportions, and this video uses that method to calculate percents. This is the second video in a series that organizes information from an ice cream poll into a proportion to find how many vanilla...

Percents and proportions go hand in hand since they both represent parts of a whole. Your learners are given a scenario to find out how many text messages Alice gets if 60 text messages are 40 percent of her plan. The lesson, part of a...

Percents are ratios, and ratios are percents. Show your learners that a percent is just a ratio with 100 as the total. This first video from a series demonstrates different ways to write ratios and how to simplify them. There is a focus...

What did I get? Who scored higher? Learners are always asking what their score means after taking a test. This video, third of a series of six, will show them how to take ratios that are factors of 100 and change it to a percent with...

Show your learners that ratios can find any missing piece when they are given the other parts. They will be asked to find the total when the percent and part is given. The video demonstrates a double number line to organize the data and...