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Making Savvy Consumer Choices
It's never too early to learn about grocery budgeting. Middle schoolers delve into the world of consumer math with a lesson that focuses on both healthy choices and real-world math applications. Groups work together to form a grocery...
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Olympic Decimals
Add competitive event times, expressed in decimals, to determine the winners! Individuals use a chart showing competitors' times in four events to figure each team's total time and individual standing.
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Probability Lesson Plans
Here is an article on how teachers can use probability lesson plans to teach their charges about theoretical and experimental probability.
Virginia Department of Education
Scientific Notation
Writing a number is all in the notation. The resource introduces the class to scientific notation. Pupils learn the process of taking a very large or small number in standard form and write it in scientific notation. To practice,...
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Simple Past-Positive Sentences #2
In this simple past tense worksheet, students use words and phrases given to form positive sentences in the given tense. Answers may be submitted online for review. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Environment: Water & Air
The introduction to the lesson mentions a sailor's limited capacity to store drinking water on his ship. Pupils then set up an overnight experiment to remove freshwater from salt water by distillation. There is a math and map activity to...
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The Number Line
Eighth graders investigate the order of numbers and how they are located on the number line. They also review the symbols used to compare quantities in order to decipher simple expressions and graph them on the numberline.
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Grade 3 Math-Advanced 5
In this grade 3 math worksheet, 3rd graders answer a set of 20 'advanced' multiple choice questions covering a variety of concepts. Answers may be checked online.
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Taste the Rainbow
Students practice estimating and graphing by utilizing Skittles. In this statistics instructional activity, students complete worksheets based on the likelihood of a certain color of skittle coming out of the bag. Students create a...
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Probability
Sixth graders explore the concept of probability. In this probability lesson, 6th graders collaborate to collect spinner data based on the likelihood of spinning odd and even numbers. Students complete 2 other probability activities and...
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Family Letter - Foreign Currency and Exchange Rates: Proportions and Ratios
In this proportions and ratios worksheet, students solve 6 short answer problems. Students find the foreign currency exchange rates for six countries. Students express the exchange rate as a proportion or ratio.
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Ratio and Proportions
Students explore the means and extremes of a proportion, the how to make a scale drawing.
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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.
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Coin Drop
Pupils calculate the theoretical and empirical probability by dropping coins on a grid. They record their data and compare the theoretical and empirical data. Students make predictions about the results before conducting the experiment.
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Finding the Probability
Ninth graders investigate the concept of probability. They use a clear objective that is a visual cue for what is required for the lesson plan. They apply the basic practices of probability to real life like situations.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Converting Percents & Fractions
Practice writing percents as fractions and fractions as percents. For example, convert 30% to a simplified fraction. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Percents 2
Twenty-eight problems present a variety of percent topics: percents as fractions, improper, and mixed numbers, percents as decimals, simple interest, and percent of increase/decrease. They are given with each step to the solution...
AAA Math
Aaa Math: All About Percents and Ratios
This AAA Math tutorial covers calculating percents, relationships of percents to fractions and decimals, and uses of percents.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Converting Between Decimals, Fractions, and Percents
Scroll down to just below the middle of the lesson for an in-depth lesson on converting fractions to percents. Works through numerous examples step by step and shows what happens when the "decimal expansion" doesn't end when converting.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Fractions, Decimals and Percents
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of fractions, decimals and percents. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page...
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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.
Doina Popovici
Math Play: Changing Fractions and Decimals to Percents
This Millionaire Game challenges students to convert fractions and decimals to percents. Students will use decimal notation with denominators of 10 and 100 and convert rational numbers to decimals using long division.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Comparison of Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Order fractions, decimals, and percents by comparing them in the same form.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages
A large collection of teacher resources dealing with fractions, decimals, and percentages at many different levels. There are worksheets, PowerPoints, smartboard presentations, Word, and pdf files for the teacher's use.