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It's a Sale!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make good decisions about making purchases of items on sale and explain how percentages effect cost.
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Four Decimal, Fraction, and Percent Activities

For Students 6th - 10th
In this fraction learning exercise, students solve problems presented in four different activities.  The activities cover percentages, fractions, decimals, currency exchange, and value added tax.  A card "game" is one of the activities. ...
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The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine the causes of the stock market crash of 1929.  In this integrated math/history unit on the stock market, 6th graders study, research, and read stocks, visit a local bank, and create a PowerPoint to show the finished...
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Nutrients by the Numbers

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read and discuss an article on the amount of sugar in various food products. They compare the nutritional values of food products, calculate their daily intake of nutrients, analyze serving sizes, and compare/contrast their own...
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M&Ms; Line Plots and Graphing

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students, using small individual bags of M&Ms, engage in activities including; estimating, sorting, graphing, mean, median, mode, fractions, percentage, and averaging.
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Ratio Basketball

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, in teams of four, practice shooting free throws while mentally converting the ratio of shots made to those thrown into a percent. They chart and record the ratio, decimal and actual percentage earned after each round.
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Percents: What's the Use

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research percentages in real world situations. In this percents lesson, students demonstrate their ability to apply percents to everyday situations. Students communicate mathematically by conducting interviews about percents and...
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Living on Your Own -- Let's Calculate the Cost!

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars review basic math skills, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, finding averages, and working with percentages. They see how these skills apply to real life situations.
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Shopping for Savings

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders calculate savings and identify the best value items from a list of products. They rotate through five studying stations, completing various math activities involving calculators and solving problems related to shopping...
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The Meaning Of Percent

For Students 4th
This lesson provides students with a variety of exercises which allow them to increase their ability to understand percentage.
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Income Levels & Social Class: Is It All About Cash?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students graph data and interpret that data after reading information about lifestyles and income levels. They calculate percentages, set up spreadsheets and calculate columnar data.
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How Much Ocean?

For Students 8th - 10th
In this ocean activity, students are given a map of the world and they predict the amount of water that covers the Earth's surface. They count the total number of squares on the given map that represent the water and they land and they...
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Effective Use of Living Space

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners explore the concept of scale. In this scale lesson, students create a scale model of a room. Learners calculate the area of a room. Students determine what percentage of the room is occupied by furniture.
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Car Activities

For Students 6th - 7th
In this math worksheet, students find cars in Auto Trader. They find the difference between the prices of the cheapest and most expensive cars. Students select a car they like and follow directions to buy on credit. Students complete a...
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Percent Worksheet 15

For Students 4th - 6th
In this percent worksheet, students calculate the percentages of two and three digit numbers. Students complete 18 problems where they calculate percentages.
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Take Another Look

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders analyze different types of graphs and answer questions related to each. In this math lesson, 7th graders organize a given diagram to make it easier to interpret. They discuss why they made such changes.
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How Far Along Each Line Are The Arrows?

For Students 5th - 9th
In this how far along each line are the arrows worksheet, students determine the length on sixteen different lines. Students show the percentage and/or decimal equivalent of their answers to each line.
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Areas and Probabilities

For Students 9th - 12th
In this area and probability worksheet, students solve 5 problems where they find the probability of an event occurring. They also use a given photograph of the moon's surface to find the area covered by craters and determine the...
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Sunspot Activity

For Students 8th - 10th
In this sunspot activity worksheet, students are given a table with 3 types of flares produced by sunspots based on their brightness. Students answer 5 questions by interpreting the data and they determine the percentages of the...
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Roundball for Remembrance

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students view a segment of Futures With Jaime Escalante showing the application of math in basketball, and they try to find some of these applications in a tape of a game played by their home school. This fun lesson should be very...
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The Business of Interest

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students learn about finance and money management and use math to solve problems, communicate, and explore real life situations as they deal with banks. In this financial management instructional activity, students apply their math...
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If the World Were a Village Activities

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders complete activities about the book If the World Were a Village by David J. Smith. In this interdisciplinary lesson plan, 6th graders complete a math activity converting fractions into decimals and percentages and a...
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Find a Whole when a Part is Known Practice Worksheet

For Students 8th - 10th
In this fraction activity, students find the whole when a portion is known. They apply the information to complete 4 problems. They use percentages of a whole in order to determine the value of the whole in 9 problems and finally, apply...
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"Water is Life" Global Water Awareness

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine and calculate the percentage of potable water remaining on the earth. In this ecology and geography lesson, students brainstorm the main factors affecting water distribution. Students use mathematical problem solving to...

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