AAA Math
Aaa Math: Determining Percentage
An example explains how to find the percent of a number. Students then check for comprehension by completing practice problems.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Majority Vote
Cast your vote for this math challenge that explores calculating percentages as it relates to voting. Discover how mastering this skill will be beneficial in real life situations. A one page activity from the NCTM Math Challenges for...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Percentage Calculator
Use this percentage calculator to "calculate a percent of a value" or "find the percent change between two values." Provided answers include steps for carrying out the calculations yourself.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Against the Odds Lesson Plan
Teachers can find ideas for their probability lesson plans here. For example, there is an interdisciplinary unit dealing with disabilities and probability as well as one using a field trip to Sea World.
CK-12 Foundation
Braingenie: Whole Number Percentage Calculations Without Units
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this activity, students are to determine the percent of a number. Watch a video for additional help and answer a practice problem.
BBC
Bbc: Ks3 Maths: Percentages
KS3 Math provides interactive activities on percentages, using pence and pounds. Use the factsheet for percentage information. You may use the worksheet for percentage practice and take the test provided to check your percentage skills....
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti: Is Leisure Time Really Shrinking
Students will to organize data from the USA TODAY Snapshot, "Is leisure time really shrinking?," into two scatter plots and determine the quadratic model for each scatter plot. Students will determine if these graphs intersect and learn...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Rational Match
Students use the Rational Number Rampage application to play a game to find numbers that are equivalent fractions, decimals, and percents.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Genetics: Peas to Blood Types
Learners will complete an online tutorial about what makes up a person's blood type, how blood types are determined, and which blood types can transfuse safely.
Math Slice
Math Slice: Percentage
Practice finding the percent of a number by using a money simulation and dragging dollars from one box to the next to represent a percent of the whole.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Percentage Calculator
Find a percentage or work out the percentage given numbers and percent values. Use percent formulas to figure out percentages and unknowns in equations. Add or subtract a percentage from a number or solve the equations.
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.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Adding Nickels and Pennies
Use this interactive online game to find the sums of different combinations of pennies and nickels. The game keeps a running total of correct and incorrect answers, as well as the percent of correct answers.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Surface Area of Cylinders
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of finding the surface area of a cylinder. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Volume of Rectangular Prisms
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of how to find the volume of rectangular prisms. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Least Common Multiple
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of finding the least common multiple. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 3: Surface Area of Prisms and Cylinders
Use Glencoe's Math Course 3 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of how to find the surface area of prisms and cylinders. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 3 Distance on the Coordinate Plane
Use Glencoe's Math Course 3 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of finding distances on the coordinate plane. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 3 Slope
Use Glencoe's Math Course 3 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of finding the slope of a line. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Mean
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of finding the mean for a data set. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Least Common Multiples
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of how to find the least common multiple. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Surface Area of Rectanglar Prisms
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of finding the surface area of rectangular prisms. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Circumference
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of how to find the circumference of a circle. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Simplifying Fractions
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of simplifying and finding equivalent fractions. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page...