Curated OER
Team Puzzles
Fourth graders work in co-operative teams of four to complete a puzzle. Each student initially works independently, and then the team jointly puts together the four shapes they have individually made, to complete the puzzle.
Curated OER
Population Ratios
Students access web site and record various population statistics pertaining to a county in the USA of their choice. They use this data to set up and solve ratios. They compare data to make meaning of the numbers.
Curated OER
Save Our Soil
Students explore the need for good farm land and reasons for the disappearance of agricultural areas. They brainstorm environmental friendly decisions and soil conservation. In their community, students explore new land developments...
Curated OER
Squirt
Fourth graders using the idea of "how many more squirts" fill a container to develop multiplicative thinking. They also investigate the idea of conservation of volume when working with oddly shaped containers. They attempt to use...
Curated OER
Calculating Interest
Students solve interest problems for bank accounts and loans to gain real life experience. They also review newspapers and find a car they wish to purchase then are given a rate and time of loan.
Other
Percentage Fraction Decimal Grid
Divide a square or circle up into a number of parts. The slices or rectangles can be painted various colors and these colors then represented as either decimals, fractions or percentages.
Other
Active Maths Limited: Fractions, Decimals & Percentages
Here are two excellent, interactive, teaching resources that visually demonstrate equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages.
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.
InterLink Language Centers
Interlink Language Centers: Calculators and Converters
Conversion calculators for English language learners. Includes calculators for converting temperature, currency, measurement, time, distances, and percentages. Java is required.
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Multiplying and Dividing by Powers of 10: The Meaning of Percent
This excellent math resource explains and defines the meaning of percent. Multiplying and dividing by a power of 10 is incorporated as a preview to understanding scientific notation.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Ntcm: Math Challenge: Perplexing Percentages
Test your bargin shopping skills by figuring out which discount offers the greatest savings. A one page activity from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families series that focuses on understanding and calculating percentages. Connections...
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 Medics
S.o.s. Math: Algebra
This lesson provides basic instruction on the major concepts in algebra. Content includes a focus on fractions, units of conversion, complex numbers, quadratic equations, factorization and roots of polynomials, solving equations, systems...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Baseball: Percentages
Students will compare percentages and convert them to fractions and decimals.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Group of Pyramids: Fractions and Graphs
On this interactive website, students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario at the pyramids. Those skills include showing percentages as fractions and decimals and interpreting data in a sector graph.
Other
Quick Math: Numbers Percentages
This QuickMath activity changes percentages to decimals or fraction and vice versa. It also calculates a certain percent of a number or vice versa.
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.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Percentages
The learning activity investigates percentages. Topics examined are converting percents to decimals, converting percents to fractions, and the percentage difference. Links to additional resources and a percentage calculator are included.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Ratios & Percentages: Converting Decimals to Percents
The mathematics tutorial examines how to convert decimals to percents. Students learn about the concept through notes, examples, and practice problems.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Ratios & Percentages: Converting Decimals to Fractions
The mathematics tutorial examines how to convert decimals to fractions. Students learn about the concept through notes, examples, and practice problems.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Ratios & Percentages: Converting Percents to Decimals
The mathematics tutorial examines how to convert percents to decimals. Students learn about the concept through notes, examples, and practice problems.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Ratios & Percentages: Converting Fractions to Decimals
The mathematics tutorial examines how to convert fractions to decimals. Students learn about the concept through notes, examples, and practice problems.
Can Teach
Can Teach: t.v. Math
At this site pupils will practice collecting data and transferring the data into percentages. Lesson plan indicated for 6th grade.
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Percent With a Calculator
This tutorial explains how to use a calculator to find a percent. There is also a practice section at the end of the lesson.