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Finding Percentages

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Here is an approach to calculating percent with 16 practice problems to solidify the skill. Two examples demonstrate dividing by 100 to get one percent and then multiplying by the percentage in question to get the solution. Learners find...
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Stock Market Math

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students calculate commission for a stock transaction through a broker using the relationship between percentages and decimals. They decide which stocks are preferable based on the price to earnings ratios listed on the stock market quotes.
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Math in the Wetlands Field Trip

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Get your class out in the environment for hands on math activities. For this wetlands lesson, learners transplant native plants, calculate how much soil is needed, and perform math activities based on this experience. They then make...
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Smarter Balanced Sample Items: 8th Grade Math – Claim 4

For Teachers 8th Standards
A math model is a good model. A slide show presents 10 sample items on modeling and data analysis. Items from Smarter Balanced illustrate different ways that Claim 4 may be assessed on the 8th grade math assessment. The presentation is...
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Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages Got You Down? "Tri" This!

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students explore number sense by creating a math presentation in class. In this parts of a whole lesson, students define and discuss the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages before completing a problem worksheet in...
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Percentages

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Review a percentage of math skills. Designed to review for the General Certificate of Secondary Education Math assessment, the resource provides practice with a variety of percent problems. Items provide pupils problems ranging from...
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Basketball Math

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Shoot for a better knowledge of optimization strategies. During the first part of the task, scholars use given basketball shooting percentages for different players to predict the winner by examining systems of inequalities. For the...
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Radford University

Percentages: Lessons 2 and 3

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
What does salary have to do with it? Working in small groups, scholars use percentages to find simple interest and the value of a car they can afford on a given salary. Learners continue on to work with salaries and calculate amounts...
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Radford University

Percentages: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Math can be taxing at times. With a short lesson, pupils determine how income tax affects take-home pay. Learners determine their net pay based on tax tables and how adjustments in their gross pay changes the paycheck.
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Gold Rush California and its Diverse Population

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students compare contemporary cultural differences with historical differences based on population percentage. In this cross-curriculum Gold Rush/math lesson, students analyze aspects of California's Gold Rush population and diversity...
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What Percentage of Time Do You Spend Doing Daily Activities?

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Engage your kids with an intriguing, real-life exploration that covers several areas in math, and allows for natural academic differentiation.
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Percentages in Word Problems

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders, after brainstorming all the places they see percentages in every day life (sales, basketball, grades, etc.), calculate percentages from bases and parts in word problems. They review their notes together on percentage...
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Percentages

For Students 6th
In this percentages worksheet, 6th graders solve and complete 13 various types of problems. First, they convert the percentages to fractions and simplify. Then, students convert the percentages to decimals. In addition, they find the...
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Number: Percentages

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students practice and then have a race to calculate percentage and fractional parts. In this percent and fraction lesson, students start with 1% and work their way up.  After each practice a quick race takes place.  Students complete a...
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Apple Estimation: Percentages & Subjective Reasoning

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students practice using their estimation skills by utilizing apples.  For this percentage lesson, students utilize a scale and an apple to discover the percentage of each bite they take.  Students share their data with the rest of the...
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Percentages: Circle the Dots

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this percentages activity, students will circle 25%, 50% and 75% of the dots in different boxes. There are a total of 24 boxes.
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Percentages: Shape Shading

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this finding percentages instructional activity, students will find and shade in 25%, 50%, and 75% of different types of shapes. There are a total of 24 shapes.
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Find Percentages of Numbers - Step-by-Step Lesson

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Finding a percentage of a number is a skill learners must know in order to be successful thinkers. The resource introduces this concept with a guided explanation and can be used with the additional materials as a complete lesson. 
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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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Problem Solving Decisions: Choose a Method

For Students 5th - 8th
Walk your scholars through the process of finding percentages using this problem-solving worksheet! A word problem asks students to figure out how many pieces of a puzzle are left, if the completed 750 pieces make up 60% of the total....
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Yummy Math

US Holiday Candy Sales

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Candy is a big business! Calculate the amount of money consumers spent on major holidays—Easter, Halloween, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Valentine's Day—based on the total amount of candy sales from 2011 and the percentage of each holiday's...
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Math--Fractions and Percentages

For Students 4th - 5th
In this fractions and percentages worksheet, students write down the percentages of a pie chart and change then into fractions. Students change 7 fraction sentences into a percentage sentence.
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Fractions as Percentage and Decimals

For Students 5th - 6th
In this fractions, percentages, and decimals worksheet, students solve 14 problems where they must convert back and forth. Students are given numbers in fraction, percentage, and decimal form and are asked to change their form. 
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Percentages

For Students 6th - 8th
In this percentages instructional activity, students read about how to express numbers as fractions, convert to decimal form and find the percent. They practice by solving four problems using the method they read about.

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