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Jambalaya's Restaurant

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use a menu and recipes to work on adding, subtracting, and percentages. They are given they weekly circulators, advertisements, or actual products and students practice figuring out sales tax. Students figure slaes tax and tip...
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Place Value Puzzle #1

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this math instructional activity, students solve 8 place value puzzles in which clues are given about the placement of the digits in the ones, tens, hundreds and thousands place.
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Find That Bargain!

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the methods of calculating percentages, reading and the construction of graphs, and an awareness of consumer concerns in this activity. The movement of the decimal point often results in uncertainty and confusion. This...
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Ratios and Percents

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders practice finding percentages, converting them, and analyze percentage statistics and facts about rice. In this ratios and percentages lesson, 6th graders read information about percentages related to rice. Students complete...
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Discounts

For Students 4th - 6th
In this discounts practice learning exercise, students read an instructional section and then solve 3 multi-part problems that require them to find discounted prices by figuring percentages.
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Making Blood!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
students research blood's components, and use their math skills to recreate a model of whole blood using commonly found food items.
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Computing Costs

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders calculate the out-of-pocket money needed to purchase a discounted item taxed at a certain percentage of sales tax.
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Candy Fractions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use candy to explore fractions and percentages.
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What proportion of rough rice is prepared into consumable rice?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders find the percentages of rough rice that can be eaten. In this percentage instructional activity, 5th graders look at 100 lbs. of rough rice and see the steps needed before it can become the white rice sold in stores. They...
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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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Ratios

For Students 7th - 12th
In this percentages activity, students complete word problems dealing with percentage increases and decreases. Students complete 3 problems.
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GENDER BIASED WORD PROBLEMS

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners identify word problems that show stereotyping and calculate the percentages.
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Skittles Lab

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use Skittles as manipulatives to practice computing decimals from fractions, computing decimals into percentages, and creating bar graphs from gathered data.
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How Much Land?

For Students 4th - 6th
In this math word problems activity, students solve problems having to do with different percentages of land. Students complete 6 questions.
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Statistical Calculations Using M&Ms

For Students 8th - 11th
In this frequency activity, students investigate, frequency, box plots, and percentage using a package of M&Ms.  Copies of the actual correspondences with the Mars company are also included.
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Honey Bunches of Oats

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore a variety of crops that are used in our food products utalizing a box of the cereal, Honey "Bunches of Oates." Percentages of each of the three different kinds of flakes present are calculated.
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My Test Book: Calculating Percents

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this online interactive math skills activity, students solve 10 multiple choice math problems that require them to calculate percents. Students may view the correct answers.
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Restaurant Tipping Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 9th
What do you do after a good meal, tip the server of course. The class calculates the appropriate tip to leave at a restaurant given certain bills. They identify the bill before and after tax and find the correct tip. A great way to put...
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Twinkies

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Brian was devastated when Hostess® filed for bankruptcy, and he was also fearful that his favorite snack treat would be lost forever. The snack food was in danger of being lost, your class won't be lost when using Twinkies® as the...
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AR Point Record

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this record worksheet, students color in one square for each point earned. After they fill out each 25-point square, they can record their average percentage.
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Basketball

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Tap into the competitive nature of teenagers as your class practices setting up and solving rational equations. This activity starts with a specific ratio of games won to games played, then asks how many more games must be played to...
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Patterns of Association (Using Data Tables) - Step-by-Step Lesson

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This worksheet belongs to a four-part resource that gathers information from data tables to calculate percentages. The page introduces one problem and shares an explanation to the answer.
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Archimedes and the King's Crown

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners will shout "Eureka!" in this quick but deep activity replicating the famous bathtub experiment of Archimedes. Given the scenario of a king with a suspected fake crown, young investigators develop formulas using density to...
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Presidential Popularity

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Media often misrepresent data and statistics to their advantage. This lesson asks scholars to analyze an article with misleading statistics. They use margin of error and mean data in their studies. Once they complete their analysis,...

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