Curated OER
Estimating School Store Purchases
Students examine uses for estimating, and round purchase prices to estimate total purchases in a simulated school store setting. They discuss what it means for an item to be on sale, and observe the teacher work through the process of...
Curated OER
Sales Spreadsheet
Students use Excel spreadsheets to organize purchases, discounts, sales prices, and sales tax. Students follow step by step instructions and enter formulas as well as use the auto sum feature to calculate required calculations.
Curated OER
Discounting Prices - Finding the Sale Price Using Percentages
In this percentages learning exercise, students find the discount prices of items in 20 short word problems using the given price and percent discount. They complete the learning exercise on-line and print the pages as needed.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Discount Savings
This lesson is intended to help students develop an understanding of sale information to compute discounts, discount rates, original prices and sale prices.
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Multiple Percents
Have you ever seen an item that you wanted on sale for 15% of its original price? Have you tried to figure out what the sale price would be? Using this interactive lesson from T.V. 411, you can learn to calculate discounts with percentages.