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Everyday, ordinary Olympics: Students will use a stopwatch to time themselves performing in various events, record data, and then compare and order decimals to determine bronze, silver and gold medal winners.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics); By Linda Hill-Wise.

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 7 Mathematics); By David Crumm.

Law enforcement careers: Working with decimals: In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.1; In this lesson for grade 6, students will perform basic math operations with decimals and will understand how math is used in law enforcement careers.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics); By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.

Fraction/Decimal War: This lesson plan introduces a game that will reinforce fractions and decimals. This activity is best played in groups of 3-4. You may choose to use as an activity when work is completed or as a center activity.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics); By Christine Sisco.

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 8 Mathematics); By Adrian Bustle.

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)

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.

Newspaper basket: Students use measurement skills to create a basket and respond to questions involving fractions, decimals, and geometric measurements.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics); By Susan Jennings.

Estimating rational numbers: Students round fractions and mixed numbers to their closest whole number by first changing the rational numbers into decimal numbers.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics); By Doreen Castelloe.

M&M madness: Students will explore fractions, decimals, percents, and circle graphs with M&M's.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics); By Donna Reble.

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 Mathematics); By Leslie Hawes.

Taxes: Students earn classroom dollars, set up a bank book, pay fines, figure interest and pay taxes.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics); By Cecelia Zimerle.

Water, water everywhere...: This is a good beginning of the year lesson to review fractions, decimals, geometry (the number of degrees in a circle and drawing a circle with a protractor), graphing, and metric measurement. This lesson is a good way for students to meet their peers while working cooperatively in a task-oriented group. The watermelon you will be using for the activity is also a good start-of-the-year treat. Be sure to get an extra watermelon or two to share at the end of the activity.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics); By Jayne Brown.

Stocks report: Students will create graphs illustrating changes in stocks and answer questions using the graphs.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Computer/Technology Skills); By Susan Blackwell.

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 Mathematics); By Susan Dougherty.

Grouping skills for mastery: In Math for multiple intelligences, page 4; Thematic planning helps relate mathematics to students' lives.; By Gretchen Buher.

Phi: The divine proportion: In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.5; The "divine ratio" is valued by designers, artists, and architects because of its interesting and and unique properties. In this lesson for grade six, students learn about this ratio and use it to create a work of art.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics); By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.

Food service professionals: Working with fractions: In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.2; This lesson for grade six demonstrates how an understanding of fractions is important in the food service industry. Students will use operations with fractions to determine how many recipes to make for a given scenario.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics); By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.

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 Mathematics); By Wendy Korbusieski.

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.

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