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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making the Connections

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Use a Horton Chart to identify relationships between numbers and make equivalent fractions and decimals. Scholars change a fraction to find the greatest common factor, find percents, and make equivalent decimals.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Fractions, Decimals and Percentages

For Students 4th - 5th
In this fractions, decimals and percentages worksheet, students change percentages to fractions and simplify. An answer key is provided.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Who Wants to Carry a Million?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students, in groups, determine the volume of a box large enough to hold a million dollars. They calculate the dimensions of a bill and the volume of the money.
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Unit Plan
San Francisco Symphony

The 20% of Beethoven

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Compare Beethoven's fifth symphony to latin music and disco. Learners will listen to and discuss the elements found in the first part of Beethoven's composition. They'll then look for the same elements in Tito Puente and Bee Gees songs....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Froot Loop Favorites

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this Froot Loop favorites worksheet, middle schoolers solve and complete 3 different problems that include data tables related to their Froot Loop favorites. First, they determine what fraction of the class voted for each color...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making a Circle Graph of a Sample Budget

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine a sample budget and categorize the entries as a group. Then in small groups they convert budget category totals to percents and degrees to make a circle graph related to a sample budget.
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Assessment
Inside Mathematics

Winning Spinners

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Winning a spin game is random chance, right? Pupils create a table to determine the sample space of spinning two spinners. Individuals determine the probability of winning a game and then modify the spinners to increase the probability...
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Unit Plan
Benjamin Franklin High School

Saxon Math: Algebra 2 (Section 1)

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
This first of twelve algebra 2 resources provides a broad review of many algebra 1 concepts through a number of separable lessons and labs. Starting with the real number system and its subsystems, the sections quickly but thoroughly move...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

60-30-10

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners use ratios and proportions to represent quantitative relationships as they investigate the concept of how percentages are used by designers. Students decorate the same room using three different percentages of colors.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Find the Fraction, Decimal and Percentage

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Pupils review how to find percentages from decimals and fractions. Using photographs, they determine the percentage, decimal and fractions of different criteria. They use a calculator to change the form of the rational numbers as well.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Money Game

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders give change of one dollar.  In this decimal and fractions instructional activity, 4th graders receive fake coins and discuss what they could purchase with them.  Students go for a walk and spend one dollar and  get their...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Home Sales Records

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Teach your class how to calculate monthly payments on a home mortgage. In this percent lesson, young scholars calculate the monthly payment on a home mortgage, and compare different lengths of time and the interest rates for national...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Number Line

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners graph and order numbers using a number line. They also solve word problems using fractions and decimals and rewrite equations to solve problems correctly. Several example word problems are given. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Comparing Ratios

For Students 6th - 7th
For this comparing ratios worksheet, students solve and complete 3 different problems using the screens shown. First, they write a ratio that compares the shaded part to unshaded part illustrated. Then, students use the same grid to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Parting Ways

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Young scholars 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.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How much is a movie worth?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover how much a movie is worth. They use decimals and percentages greater than 100 to complete this activity.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Percentages

For Students 5th - 6th
In this percentages worksheet, students study the information and examples on a one page text. Kids then solve 14 problems in which decimals and percentages are converted. Students also convert percentages to fractions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Percentages and Fractions of Amounts

For Students 6th - 7th
In this math worksheet, students change percents to fractions on five problems. Students complete a table. Students find a given percent of five numbers. They complete five story problems involving percents.
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Lesson Plan
Rochester Institute of Technology

Skateboard Assembly - Line Balance

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Utilize the lesson on utilization. The second installment of a nine-part technology/engineering series teaches scholars about the flow of a balanced assembly line and the definition of utilization. Videos, activities, and simulations...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Code Breakers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers collect data and make a frequency table, change ratios into percents, and analyze data to make predictions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Let's Make Fudge

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make fudge after reading fractional values in recipes and finding equivalent fractions to those presented in the recipes. They study measurement abbreviations.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sea Ice: Unscrambling the Egg Code

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students determine sea ice thickness, concentration, and floe size by reading egg codes.  In this sea ice conditions lesson plan, students color code a map based on prescribed criteria and use the maps to identify changes in sea ice...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Water is Life" Global Water Awareness

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine and calculate the percentage of potable water remaining on the earth. In this ecology and geography lesson, students brainstorm the main factors affecting water distribution. Students use mathematical problem solving to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

2.0 "Water Is Life" Global Water Awareness Mini-Unit (Grades3-5)

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students study the amount of potable water on the Earth. In this water lesson, students examine the amount of potable water as compared to all the water on the Earth. They discuss why many parts of the world do not have access to good...