Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Application of Percents
Get independent practice applying percent concept to real world situations. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: More Application of Percents
Get independent practice with more applications of percents to real world situations. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Converting a Percent to a Fraction
This tutorial describes how to convert a percent to a fraction and features practice exercises and and games.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: All About Percents and Ratios
This AAA Math tutorial covers calculating percents, relationships of percents to fractions and decimals, and uses of percents.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Teaching Percentages
Students can brush up on percentage skills with this lesson and calculate percentages using the "Percent Tricks method." For students to successfully use this method, they must have the ability to multiply and divide whole numbers.
CK-12 Foundation
Braingenie: Whole Number Percentage Calculations Without Units
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this activity, students are to determine the percent of a number. Watch a video for additional help and answer a practice problem.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Finding 2.5 Percent of a Number
This site provides shortcuts and hints on how to do more complicated percentages without a calculator. For others beside 2.5, scroll down the left column and click percentage of choice under "Percents."
NumberNut
Number Nut: Percentages
Did you know that the word percent is based on two ancient words, "Per" and "Centum" which means part of one hundred? Learn how to calculate percent and find out how it is used in business.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today the Next Frontier for Flight
This activity provides students the opportunity to gain experience in creating circle graphs on the calculator and provides an excellent real-world review of computation with percents.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
This activity gives students an opportunity to explore the relationship between fractions, decimals, and percents.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Visual Fractions
This activity provides students with an opportunity to use a visual model to represent fractions, decimals, and percents.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Rational Timer
Students use the calculator to play a game that requires them to convert numbers to fractions, decimals, or percent quickly and accurately.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Tiles in a Bag
In this activity, students explore probability and patterns in fractions, decimals, and percents by drawing tiles out of a bag.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Rational Number Rampage App
This App helps students sharpen fraction, decimal, and percentage representation skills with three games: Rational Timer, Rational Match, and Percent Square.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Number Cube Sums
Students explore experimental probability and patterns in fractions, decimals, and percents by rolling two number cubes and recording and analyzing the sums that come up.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Percent Square
In this activity, students use the Rational Number Rampage application to play a game and explore fractions, decimals, and percents. They are shown a hundred square grid with different number of squares colored and are required to...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Fractions
In this activity, students use the calculator to learn about the relationship between fractions, decimals, and percents.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Rational Match
Students use the Rational Number Rampage application to play a game to find numbers that are equivalent fractions, decimals, and percents.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Getting Started With Rational Number Rampage App
Help students sharpen fraction, decimal, and percentage representation skills with three games: Rational Timer, Rational Match, and Percent Square. Build number sense and gain confidence with using fractions,decimals, and percents.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Percents Greater Than 100 or Less Than 1
In this activity, students practice writing numbers as fractions, decimals, and percents.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Picturing Percents
In this activity, students represent percents on a 10 X 10 grid. They use the grid and the calculator to generate patterns that lead to methods for calculating percentages.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Solving Problems "By the Hundreds"
The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute site contains various math exercises relating to percentage and consumer-related problems. An explanation of sales tax, a related problem and answer are given.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Percentages
A selection of teacher resources dealing with percentages. There are worksheets and PowerPoints available to download.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages
A large collection of teacher resources dealing with fractions, decimals, and percentages at many different levels. There are worksheets, PowerPoints, smartboard presentations, Word, and pdf files for the teacher's use.