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ACC basketball

The students will use ACC basketball statistics to practice the process of converting fractions to decimals then to percents and will learn how to create and edit a spreadsheet. They will then use this spreadsheet to analyze their data. This unit is done during the basketball season.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Information Skills and Mathematics)

By Susan Dougherty.

Baseball fun: Percentages, decimals, and fractions

Students will learn the concepts behind fractions, decimals, and percents by using sports statistics found on baseball cards.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics)

By Adrian Bustle.

Exploring probability : Part 1 of 2

This lesson will introduce students to probability using resources of Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. Permission has been granted for the use of the materials as part of the workshop Interactivate Your Bored Math Students. Students will discover the rule for calculating simple probability as well as explore the ideas of experimental and theoretical probability.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)

By Wendy Korbusieski.

Life's percents

Students will gather data from their own lives to use in calculating percents. They will measure parts of their bodies (head, leg, neck, etc.), complete a class survey that asks information about themselves, and use a pay stub to find percentages of deductions.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)

By Karen Mcpherson.

M&M madness

Students will explore fractions, decimals, percents, and circle graphs with M&M's.

Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Mathematics)

By Donna Reble.

Percent of a number

In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.10

In this lesson for grade seven, students will act as fair planners ordering food for the Dixie Classic Fair. Students will calculate percentages to determine how much food to order.

Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)

By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.

Percent problem solving

Students apply their knowledge of fractions, decimals, and percents to understand the relationship amongst the three. Students will solve basic percent number problems using the percent proportion or other methods and play a game using a resource of the Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. Permission has been granted to use the materials as part of the Interactivate Your Bored Math Students workshop. Students will also analyze and explain the results of their game by answering two exploration questions.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)

By Victoria Lunetta.

Pizza anyone?

Students survey their class and analyze data about favorite pizza toppings. This activity is meant to be fun and engaging, with the class participating and making decisions as a whole.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)

By Jack Hunter.

Popcorn math

In this lesson students will use a consumable manipulative to understand percent, fraction and decimal conversions. They will also collect data on a teacher produced spreadsheet while using a computer generated spreadsheet to make conversions.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)

Post-EOG activities: Student products

In this project, students will become entrepreneurs. They will have a business that makes items with 3-dimensional shapes. They will receive various tasks that will require that they make decisions as any other business owner would have to do.

Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)

By Geneva Williams.

Sale! Sale! Sale!

Consumer math often requires shoppers to analyze and compare the same products at different stores. In addition to price variations, retailers offer incentives or discounts. This lesson requires students to be informed consumers who calculate three purchasing options and conclude which is the best deal. The activity enables students to apply mathematics to a real-life situation.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)

By Leslie Hawes.

Sales careers: Working with percents

In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.3

In this lesson for grade six, students will understand how to perform operations with percents by using commission rates for various sales careers to calculate salary.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)

By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.

Savor the rainbow

Use skittles to help the students practice the concepts of sorting data, recording data, writing the data collected in fraction form (part/whole), changing the fractions into decimals and percents, and taking the data collected and making a spreadsheet, bar graph, and circle graph of the data.

Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)

By Beverly Revis.

Taxes

Students earn classroom dollars, set up a bank book, pay fines, figure interest and pay taxes.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4–6 Mathematics)

By Cecelia Zimerle.

Trashketball review for ratios, fractions, decimals and percents.

This lesson will help the students with changing from ratios to fractions, fractions to decimals, and decimals to percents.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)

By David Crumm.

Using percent of change to measure growth in North Carolina

Students will work in small groups to use the internet to gather data on the population growth for each of the 100 counties in North Carolina from 1992 to 1995. From these data, students will find the percent of increase/decrease for the counties they have been assigned. As a follow-up, the students will enter their data into a computer spreadsheet and from that spreadsheet, produce graphs of the information.

Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Information Skills, Mathematics, and Social Studies)

By Wanda Washburn.

Resources on the web

Estimator Four

This activity allows two users to play a game of estimation where each player tries to connect four game pieces in a row before his or her opponent does. The players earn game pieces by accurately estimating the answers to various problems. Users can choose... (Learn more)

Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 3–12 Mathematics)

Provided by: Shodor

Parking at the mall

In this lesson, one of a two-part unit from Illuminations titled “Mathematics at the Mall,” students develop number sense in and around the shopping mall. Activities focus on space for parking and space for leasing shops in the mall. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations