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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.

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 Mathematics); By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Mathematics); By Jack Hunter.

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.

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.

Using percent of change to measure NC growth: Students will work in small groups to use the internet to gather data on the population growth for each of the 100 counties in NC from 1992 to 1995. From this 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 8 Computer/Technology Skills, Mathematics, and Social Studies); By Wanda Washburn.

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.

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.

CareerStart lessons: Grade seven: This collection of lessons aligns the seventh grade curriculum in math, science, English language arts, and social studies with potential career opportunities.; Format: (multiple pages)

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.

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.

CareerStart lessons: Grade six: This collection of lessons aligns the sixth grade curriculum in math, science, English language arts, and social studies with potential career opportunities.; Format: (multiple pages)

Spin, toss, and roll!: Students will use hands-on experiments to find the probability that certain events will occur.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics); By Carol Baldwin.

Exploring probability: Part 2 of 2: This lesson will introduce students to the concept of fairness as it relates to probability following Part 1 of this lesson which introduces the concept and procedure for calculating probability. Both of these lessons use the 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 define fairness and determine if a game is fair.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics); By Wendy Korbusieski.

Simple interest: In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.6; In this lesson for grade seven, students learn how to calculate simple interest, and research careers in which people need to understand simple interest.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics); By Tammie J. Dawkins-Smith and Cynthia Russell.Adapted by Sharon Abell, Peggy Dickey, and Barbara Turner.

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