Curated OER
Percentage: Math Practice
In this percentage worksheet, students express percentages as fractions and decimals, express fractions as percentages and solve 8 word problems.
Curated OER
From 3 To 30, By Threes
In this from three to thirty by threes instructional activity, students practice completing a multiplication table utilizing only multiples of three.
Curated OER
Sale Price
In this mathematics worksheet, students identify how to find a sale price depending on what is being asked. They read a table that shows the cost and selling prices and complete the table to one decimal point. Then, students complete...
Curated OER
Selling Price
Students work independently to complete a problem solving activity that involves percent. This lesson is designed to be used as an assessment following a unit on percents. Students are presented with a problem involving a store that is...
Curated OER
Parting Ways
Students become part of the solution as they practice figuring percents. The number of men versus women present in the room and their heights can be used to form the basis of this investigation.
Curated OER
Pennies for Pits
Sixth graders use the edible and nonedible parts of various fruits to determine percentages. Using measurements and appropriate tools are part of the activity.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Tip on Tipping
This TV 411 segment features a lesson from Question Man on how to informally calculate 15% tips at restaurants.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Coin Tossing
Coin Tossing shows a person flipping a coin and asks the student to describe coin-flipping as a decision making option.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Percent Equation
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of using percent equations to solve percent problems. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Estimator Quiz
This activity allows the student to practice estimating the results of addition multiplication and percentage problems. The activity has 3 levels of challenge.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Decimals, Fractions & Percentages
Students learn about and practice converting between fractions, decimals and percentages. Using a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot and a touch sensor, each group inputs a fraction of its choosing. Team members convert this same fraction into a...
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: What's a Percentage?
Use this site to learn about percents, and how they relate to decimals and fractions with this interactive online lesson. You will learn about percents, convert percents into fractions and decimals, and find equal parts of a whole.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Percent as a Means to Compare Fractions
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad uses fractions and percents to compare the contest results of the Squitters, little creatures who love to jump.
Yale University
Solving Problems by the Hundreds
This site contains a study of percentage and its applications in the study of consumer related problems. Problems involving sales tax are included. Examples, explanation, solutions and a bibliography are also included in the site.
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Percent
Explore percents with this easy reference guide. Learn how to convert fractions to percents and percents to fractions. Try the sliding bar to see how a percentage is calculated. Detailed explanations and examples are included.
Math Drills
Math Drills: Percents Worksheets
Download these worksheets to sharpen your percent calculation skills. Sheets focus on the percentage of a number, percentage rate, and percentage increase/decrease.
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.
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.
Elias Saab
Math Drills: Percentage Word Problems Quiz
An interactive quiz which provides students with word problems involving a percentage to be solved. Students input their solution and have the program evaluate it. Hints are available if the student needs them, and explanations are...
The Math League
The Math League: Percent & Probability
This tutorial gives definitions and examples of percents and probability and covers percent as a fraction and percent as a decimal.
Other
Treasury Direct: Money Math: Secret of Becoming a Millionaire [Pdf]
This lesson focuses on understanding fractions, decimals and percentages as the math skills, and saving money and compounding interest as the economic skills. [PDF]
Utah Education Network
Uen: Design Your Own Bedroom
Many students dream of designing their ideal bedroom. In this exercise, students will be required to limit their designs by size (as a specific volume) and price (a specific amount). They must design the floor plan, including furniture...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Put Out the Flags
Sharpen your logic and percent skills while working on this challenge. A strategy for solving the problem and the solution are available from links on the left.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Does Drinking Soda Affect Your Health?
Try this "Real world," challenge taken directly from the today's health journals. Use your problem solving, data analysis, and number sense skills to figure out if soda intake among teenage girls is related to incidences of broken bones....