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Unit Plan
Newspaper Association of America

By the Numbers: Mathematical Connections in Newspapers for Middle-Grade Students

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A cross-curricular resource teaches and reinforces mathematical concepts with several activities that use parts of a newspaper. Scholars use scavenger hunts to find the different ways math is used in the paper along with using data...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ordering Rational Numbers and Finding Their Approximate

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept of ordering rational numbers on a number line. They represent rational numbers as decimals and percents. Pupils create a foldable about converting fractions to decimals to percents, and use a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Developing the Concept: Percents

For Teachers 5th - 7th
For this percents lesson, learners review how to solve a multiplication equation where they must solve for a variable. They solve equations with missing numbers and percents.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Solving Percent Problems

For Teachers 6th Standards
Don't discount how much your pupils understand percents! The 27th lesson in a series of 29 presents a problem to find the cost of a discounted outfit. Small groups determine either the original price or the discount received given the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Finding Equivalent Forms For Positive Rational Numbers

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners discuss the relationship between and the equivalent forms of rational numbers. They will convert numbers from decimals to fractions, understanding they are equivalent, but just different forms.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Counting Problems

For Teachers 7th Standards
Solving these percent problems is a matter of counting. Pupils find percents by counting the number of events that meet the criteria and the total number of possibilities. Participants create the ratio and convert it to a percent to...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Finding Percent-Decimal Method

For Students 4th - 6th
In this finding percent worksheet, students use the decimal method and solve 5 problems using work space provided. Answers are included.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Percent Increase and Decrease

For Teachers 7th Standards
Increase the percent of pupils that are fluent in solving change problems with an activity that asks class members to look at problems that involve either increases or decreases and to express the change in terms of the percent of the...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Fluency with Percents

For Teachers 7th Standards
Pupils build confidence working with percents as they work several types of percent problems to increase their fluency. The resource contains two sets of problems specifically designed to build efficiency in finding solutions of basic...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Dana's House

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Your class is to find the percent of the lot that is not covered by a house. Make sure your pupils understand the problems before they begin. The lot is the whole of the percent problem and the house is the part. The exercise is good...
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Lesson Plan
Math Worksheets Land

Multistep Ratio and Percent Word Problems - Step-by-Step Lesson

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
What happens when you have a recipe and need to up the measurements? Here is a lesson that explains how to use ratios to convert measurements and percents with worked out problems. Also provided are additional resources and practice...
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Worksheet
Mathed Up!

Ordering Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Give scholars the opportunity to show what they know about ordering fractions, decimals, and percents with a five-page, eight-problem independent practice. With clear instructions and supportive advice, learners are bound for a...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Calculating Total From Percents

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Using this short review of finding a percentage of a number, learners can practice important skills. There are twelve questions on this worksheet.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Percent Box

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the procedures to determine a number when the percentage of the whole is known or to find the whole number when the part or percentage is known.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Bits and Pieces - More About Percents - Online Manipulatives

For Students 5th - 6th
In this online percentages worksheet, learners access the Library of Virtual Manipulatives web site and open the percentage tool. They use the online tool to complete 8 multi-step questions making graphical representations and finding...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Percent Problems

For Students 6th - 7th
In this statistics worksheet, learners find the percentages of the five given numbers. There is one problem where the students must find the percent of a fraction.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Whole Numbers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Student are assigned one of the sections on whole numbers. After reviewing the content, they teach their assigned sections to other class mates. They publish their findings on a PowerPoint slide show to use when they teach their section.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

What is a Percent? (A)

For Students 5th - 6th
In this finding percents worksheet, students read the two numbers for each problem and then determine what percent of the second number is the first number. Students solve forty problems.
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Handout
Math Worksheets Land

Percentages of Numbers Lesson and Practice

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Quick resource for those learners who need a guide when finding percentages of a number. Provides one worked-out example and two practice problems that can be used as a handout. 
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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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Unit Plan
EngageNY

Ratios and Unit Rates

For Teachers 6th Standards
This turn-key unit on ratios and unit rates walks through a 30-lesson unit on teaching proportional reasoning, with each lesson broken into detailed teaching notes and time allotments for all parts. An unbelievable resource when taken...
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Worksheet
T. Smith Publishing

Finding Percentages 6A

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
A list of 20 two to three-digit numbers asks math whizzes to determine specified percentages for each. The publisher has linked the assignment to CCSS.Math.Content.6RP.3, and it is targeted at the discreet skill of finding a percent of a...
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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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fractions Forever!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Middle schoolers identify proper, improper fractions, and mixed numbers.  They reduce fractions to their lowest terms. They add and subtract fractions with different denominators, and multiply and divide fractions, as well as decimal...