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Finding Fractions of Numbers and Quantities
A presentation teaches young learners to find fractional values and quantities, and provides tips on how to solve math word problems. Learners engage with dozens of challenging problems, and get tips along the way. A terrific PowerPoint...
EngageNY
Percent of a Quantity
Visualize methods of finding percents. Classmates find a percent of a quantity using two methods including a visual model in the 26th activity in a series of 29. By the end of the activity, scholars find percents given a part and the...
Curated OER
Working with Percentages and Proportions
For this percentages and proportions worksheet, middle schoolers are given percentages, they express them as a proportions, they create an equivalent ratio using "x" for the unknown portion and they cross multiply and divide to find...
Curated OER
Fractions as Percentage and Decimals
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.
Shodor Education Foundation
Estimating With Fire
Watch the damage from a forest fire in this interactive simulation activity that challenges learners to estimate the burn area using different approaches. Learners are given a worksheet to track the different burn patterns and practice...
Curated OER
Money and Percentage
Fifth graders examine use of percentages in real world situations. They complete worksheet about using percentages after reviewing the concept. They look through newspapers to find examples of percentages used over the course of three...
T. Smith Publishing
Finding Percentages 6A
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...
Curated OER
It Has Been Rubbish For Years
Students are presented with the problems of percentages and focus upon numbers in contrast to 100. They calculate problems with money and are engaged with the use of games as a teaching tool. Students also interpret data as presented in...
Curated OER
Percentages: Calculating Percent-1
For this percentages worksheet, students calculate percentages in eighteen problem solving percentage equations. Students show each step of their work.
Curated OER
Percentage of a Number
In this percentages practice learning exercise, students read an instructional section regarding percents and then solve 16 problems where they must find a given percent of a specific number. Students also solve 4 percent word problems.
Noyce Foundation
Mixing Paints
Let's paint the town equal parts yellow and violet, or simply brown. Pupils calculate the amount of blue and red paint needed to make six quarts of brown paint. Individuals then explain how they determined the percentage of the brown...
EngageNY
Solving Percent Problems III
What happens when combining percentage discounts? The last lesson in a series of 29 introduces the idea of combining discounts one after another. Pupils wrestle with the claim that to find the total discount, they need to only add...
Curated OER
Four Decimal, Fraction, and Percent Activities
In this fraction instructional activity, 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...
Curated OER
Calculate Percentages
Sixth and seventh graders study the concept of finding the percent of a number. They calculate the percent of any given number. Pupils describe ways to use calculating percents in their daily life, and change percents into decimals,...
Helping with Math
Percentages: Calculating Percent - 2
Here is a activity on which math classes practice calculating the percentage of different numbers. Some of the percentages involve decimals, so this would not be an assignment for first-time percent calculators! You can print the...
Curated OER
Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
In this fractions, decimals, and percentages worksheet, learners compare and order given amounts. Students identify equivalent numbers. They calculate the percent of a given number and convert from a fraction to a percent and to a...
Curated OER
Percentages: Decimals To Percent
In this percentages activity, students write twelve decimals as percentages and twelve percentages as decimals. Students check their answers with the key when they are finished.
Curated OER
Percentages: Fractions To Percent
In this percentages worksheet, students write eighteen fractions as percentages. Students problem solve each fraction as a percentage.
Curated OER
Percentages Level 2
In this math worksheet, students solve the word problems in order to solve the problems using percentages. They apply the percent proportion.
Curated OER
Percentages
In this percentages worksheet, 5th graders solve and complete 3 different problems. First, they complete the table shown with the correct fraction, decimal and percentage. Then, students find the percentage of each given number.
Curated OER
Calculating Total From Percents
Using this short review of finding a percentage of a number, learners can practice important skills. There are twelve questions on this worksheet.
Curated OER
Task: Grain Storage
Farming is full of mathematics, and it provides numerous real-world examples for young mathematicians to study. Here, we look at a cylinder-shaped storage silo that has one flat side. Given certain dimensions, learners need to determine...
Curated OER
M&Ms Count and Crunch
Students practice skills involving statistics and probability by making predictions on number of each color candy in one pound bag of M&Ms. They record both guesses and actual quantities, calculate percentages, and create bar graphs...
EngageNY
Comparing Quantities with Percent
Be 100 percent confident who has the most and by how much. Pupils use percentages to help make the comparisons by finding what percent one quantity is of the other. They also determine the percent differences between the two...