BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Percent and Fractions: Percentages
Tutorial teaches students about percents and fractions.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: To Scale or Not to Scale? That Is the Factor.
Students will learn to solve proportions and find missing sides of similar figures using the scale factor. This lesson is best taught before the concept of cross multiplication is developed. Not only will the student learn the process of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Genetics: Peas to Blood Types
Students will complete an online tutorial about what makes up a person's blood type, how blood types are determined, and which blood types can transfuse safely.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Is It Really That Big?
Just how tall is that object? In this instructional activity, young scholars will participate in an outdoor group activity using shadows to extend their knowledge of proportions to solve problems dealing with similarity. The cooperative...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Are You Interest Ed?
In this instructional activity, students 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. Students will become...
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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Solving Percent Problems (Day 2)
Solving percents using real world scenarios.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Visually Representing Percent Word Problems (Day 2)
Using a variety of visual representations to solve real world percent problems.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Solving Percent Problems (Day 1)
Solving percent problems using real world scenarios.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Percents and Double Line Diagrams and Tape Diagrams (Day 1)
Sixth graders will be using visual representations to help them solve percent problems. They will be able to say ____% of ____ = _____ by the end of this lesson!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: 49 Ers Web Quest Challenge
From the San Francisco 49er's Museum Education Program which promotes STEAM projects, 7th graders explore statistics and percentages via a WebQuest.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: College Project Wrap Up
What have learners learned about college? What questions do they still have? Students work on wrapping up and reflecting on the College Project while tackling math problems. This lesson includes a detailed plan, printable worksheets,...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Decimal Operations and Equivalency Pretest
Sixth graders show what they know about decimal operations and equivalency between fractions, decimals, and percents.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Pecking Order
Pecking Order is an educational game for kids to practice number values with fractions, percents, and decimals. The object of the game is to arrange the different birds from least to greatest on a number line as quickly as possible...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Concentration
Play a matching game with different representations of equivalent items.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Ideas for Working With Fractions
Students get practice working with the conversion of fractions, decimals, percents through using several of the interactive activities.
Cuemath
Cuemath: Profit and Loss
A comprehensive guide for learning all about profit and loss with definitions, selling price and cost price, how to calculate profit, profit and loss formula, solved examples, and practice questions.
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Basics of Percent
Video lesson [8:11] explains the basic concept of percents. Provides numerous problems for students to practice what they've learned.
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: How to Calculate Percentages
Learn how to calculate percentages in this easy lesson.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Thats Interesting
Read this word problem and solve the questions that follow. An extra challenge and an answer check are also provided.
Quia
Ixl Learning: Percents
Brush up on your math skills relating to percents then try some practice problems to test your understanding.
Cool Math
Coolmath: Percents How to Convert a Decimal to a Percent
This CoolMath resource will help students convert decimals into percents.
Cool Math
Coolmath: Percents What Is a Percent?
This CoolMath resource will help students understand the concept percents.
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Defining and Calculating Percents
Explore methods for calculating and comparing discounts in this video from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students develop different strategies for calculating and comparing discounts, including percent off a price,...