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Activity
NumberNut

Number Nut: Decimals

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Do you know what a decimal is and how it is related to fractions? Find out and practice your skills playing the related interactive games.
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Interactive
Visual Fractions

Visual Fractions: Platform Scale

For Students 6th - 8th
Students practice using scales like the one in a doctor's office. Five Gregs will drop on the scale to be weighed. Participants see how fast they can weigh the Gregs.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Fractions, Decimals, and Percents

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity gives students an opportunity to explore the relationship between fractions, decimals, and percents.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Visual Fractions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity provides students with an opportunity to use a visual model to represent fractions, decimals, and percents.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Rational Timer

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the calculator to play a game that requires them to convert numbers to fractions, decimals, or percent quickly and accurately.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: In Round Numbers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students will develop and test rules for rounding whole numbers and decimal fractions. They will use the information to solve real-world problems.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Tiles in a Bag

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students explore probability and patterns in fractions, decimals, and percents by drawing tiles out of a bag.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Comparing Decimals Wider Isn't Always Larger

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students learn to compare and order decimals. They learn to measure decimals by using the Number Line application.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Rational Number Rampage App

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This App helps students sharpen fraction, decimal, and percentage representation skills with three games: Rational Timer, Rational Match, and Percent Square.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Number Cube Sums

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Percent Square

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Names for 100

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will use the calculator to carry out operations of addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication on integers, fractions, and decimals to find mathematical expressions that equal 100.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Number and Operations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students use the calculator to represent decimals, and to recognize patterns in the number symbols.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Fractions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students use the calculator to learn about the relationship between fractions, decimals, and percents.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Names for One Half

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students use their understanding of integers, fractions, decimals, and operations to find mathematical expressions that equal one-half.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Rational Match

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the Rational Number Rampage application to play a game to find numbers that are equivalent fractions, decimals, and percents.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Getting Started With Rational Number Rampage App

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Percents Greater Than 100 or Less Than 1

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students practice writing numbers as fractions, decimals, and percents.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Decimal Defender App

For Teachers 5th - 7th
This App helps students practice multiplication and division with decimals in a fun environment. Students use this App to learn standard multiplication and division algorithms as well as understand topics such as scientific notation, the...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Living With Diabetes

For Students 6th - 8th
A patient discusses diabetes and how he manages his carbohydrate intake in this video segment from TV 411.
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Activity
Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Solving Problems "By the Hundreds"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How Far to Wells Road?

For Students 6th - 8th
In this Cyberchase video segment, Bianca drives to visit her friend, but learns that she has incorrectly added decimal amounts, so she ends up at the wrong location.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How Many Rails for the Detour?

For Students 6th - 8th
The CyberSquad adds decimals to figure out how many rails they need to build a detour that will help them go around a mountain in this Cyberchase video segment.
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Math Slice

Math Slice: Fraction Slice Special Test

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A succinct tool for assessing decimal and fraction concepts. Assessment is scored online. An excellent tool for use as a quick assessment.