Percent Problems

Pupils work several real-world problems that use percents in the 11th portion of a 20-part series. The problems contain percents involved with taxes, commissions, discounts, tips, fees, and interest. Scholars use the equations formed for...

There is a 100 percent chance this resource will help pupils connect percents to financial literacy. Young mathematicians use their knowledge of percents to find markups and markdowns in financial situations in the seventh segment in a...

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...

Pupils use visual models, numeric methods, and equations to solve percent problems. To complete the second installment of 20, they find the part given the percent and the whole, find the percent given the part and the whole, and find the...

Sal clarifies what it means when students see a percent problem such as 100 is what percent of 80? He explicitly defines what each component of the problem literally means and then clearly breaks down the process for solving the problem.

Is there a formula to help find the total in a percent problem? Given the part and the percent, the resource shows how to find the total. The video provides a two-step formula to find the total and goes through two word problems to...

Which of the three percent questions is being asked? There are three basic types of percent problems, the resource covers the type when the percent is unknown. The resource shows two methods of finding the percent, either through the use...

Create a one out of a hundred model. Using a grid to visualize percents, pupils shade squares to solve percent problems. Learners develop the conceptual understanding of a percent and use the value of one percent to solve problems.

Sam's mom is a bowling woman and her birthday is around the corner. Can Sam afford the shirt in the store window for her? Mia helps him solve a multi-step percent problem to figure it out!

There are 300 cars in the parking lot, can your learners calculate how many are blue? When given a percent, your learners will be able to put the ratio in a table and find the missing part during this video from a series about percent...