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Worksheet
Curated OER

Leveled Problem Solving Discounts, Markups, Tips, and Sales Tax

For Students 6th - 7th
In this discounts and sales tax worksheet, students problem solve and work with discounts, markups, tips, and sales tax by completing the six word problems.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Calculate Percentages

For Teachers 6th - 7th
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,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Go Figure! Using Percents in the Real World

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders solve sales tax problems.  In this solving sales tax problems lesson, 6th graders find the sales tax on various items.  Students are given a list of expenses that a family spent on vacation before taxes.  Students determine...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Let's Go Shopping with $500

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use a worksheet to budget a five-hundred dollar shopping spree. They select goods to purchase, figure totals and then calculate discounts and sales tax. They compare results to determine who purchased the most for his or...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introducing the Concept: Percents

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore the math concept of percents. In this percents lesson, students examine visual examples of the relationships among fractions, decimals, and percents. Students also practice solving problems that their instructors model.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Developing the Concept: Percents

For Teachers 5th - 7th
For this percents lesson, learners review how to solve a multiplication equation where they must solve for a variable. They solve equations with missing numbers and percents.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Percent and Percentage Problems

For Teachers 9th - 11th
In this Algebra I/Algebra II worksheet, students solve application problems involving percents, percent error, and percent of increase or decrease.  The two page worksheet contains a combination of fourteen multiple choice and free...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

A-Z Tech Math Final Exam Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
In this math study guide, learners solve problems previously studied throughout the school year. Problems include, but are not limited to, volume, area, perimeter, square roots, binomials, trinomials, graphing, and consumer math. This...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Percent in Business

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In this percentages worksheet, young scholars solve word problems that include percentages in business. Students complete 14 word problems.
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Unit Plan
Yale University

Solving Problems by the Hundreds

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a study of percentage and its applications in the study of consumer related problems. Problems involving sales tax are included. Examples, explanation, solutions and a bibliography are also included in the site.
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Unit Plan
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Consumer Math

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
From basics such as adding and subtracting money, converting coins, and making change to more advanced topics such as sales tax and simple interest, this interactive tutorial offers help with consumer math issues.