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Practice finding a percent, a part or a whole in real-world situations. Compare discounts, calculate tax and tips, and use models to explain percent reasoning.
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Percent Proportion Word Problems Guided Notes + Homework Set
Percent Proportions Word Problems Guided Notes and Homework This educational resource teaches students how to solve challenging percent proportion word problems. The informative guided notes scaffold instruction, allowing learners to actively acquire and apply knowledge as they progress. Educators can implement the materials in various…
Shopping, tax & tips
6th Grade Math Percent Word Problems Discount Tax & Tip Guided Notes
Guided notes introduce percent problems by identifying the whole, the percent, and the amount to find. Worked examples lead into discounts, tax, and tips, followed by guided practice and two ten-question worksheets. Use the notes to model a calculation before students apply the process independently. A worked answer key supports checking and discussion.
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Multi-Step Percent Problems CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE
A constructed-response activity with four multi-step percent word-problem scenarios, aligned to CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.RP.A.3.
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Percent Word Problems – Tipping & Gratuities Math
Students calculate tips for restaurant, taxi and salon situations using percentage benchmarks or decimal multiplication. A worked example introduces the methods before seven practice problems, including a combined tax-and-tip total. Teacher guidance, worked answers and a closing reflection support a lesson that pairs percentage calculations with discussion of the tipping practices described in the handout.
Models & conversions
More Double Number Lines
A double-number-line ratio/percent word-problem worksheet (CCSS 6.RP.3) for review, assessment, or small-group intervention.
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Percent Word Problems – Taxes, Tips & Sale Prices
Percent Math Lesson: Calculating Taxes, Tips, and Sale Prices Here's a ready-to-go lesson for your middle school math unit on percentages. It encourages students to use multiple methods and mental math when calculating the tax, tip, or sale price for everyday transactions. This is one of the times you can easily say to your students,…
Shopping, tax & tips
Perfect Patsy Percentage Calculates Percentages (9-12 years)
Perfect Patsy Percentage Calculates Percentages (9-12 years) An indispensable educational tool for educators, Perfect Patsy Percentage was created with the intent of simplifying complex percentage calculations for late elementary grade students. This resource is filled with engaging, character-driven worksheets that offer a novel…
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Percent Less Than One & More Than a Hundred: Decimal Percent Worksheet
Give students no-prep practice solving real-world word problems involving decimal percentages that are less than one percent or greater than one hundred percent.
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Percent proportionsModels & conversions
6th Grade Math Understanding Percents Guided Notes & Practice
Guided notes and practice to build conceptual understanding of percent (as 'out of 100' and as a part/whole relationship) and conversions among percents, fractions, and decimals.
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Shopping, tax & tips
Math Munchies Cafe: Tips, Discounts, Tax, Percents
A restaurant-themed real-world math activity where students calculate percentages, discounts, tax, and tips using a math-pun-themed menu and per-family bill coupons.
Mixed math review
The I-Math Program Incremental Word Problems That Help Students Think
A collection of 68 incremental math word-problem worksheets across 19 problem types, designed as a supplement (not a standalone curriculum) that starts each topic with simple questions and gradually increases complexity, training students to read word problems carefully.
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Mixed math review
Algebra: Word Problems Vol. 5 Gr. 3-5
Gives teachers ready-to-use algebra word-problem worksheets for grades 3-5 involving multiplication/division, place value, fractions, percent and decimals, aligned to NCTM standards.
Mixed math review
Bingo Games #2: 7th Grade Math Review
A slideshow-based bingo review game covering multiple 7th grade math topics (probability, similar triangles, graph predictions, multi-step and proportional word problems, distributive property with fractions/decimals, box-and-whisker plots, percents, mean, median, interquartile range).
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Mixed math review
Algebra: Word Problems Vol. 4 Gr. 3-5
Algebra word-problem workbook for grades 3-5 (Volume 4 of a multi-volume 'chapter slice' series), aligned to NCTM Principles & Standards for School Mathematics.
Mixed math review
Algebra: Word Problems Vol. 3 Gr. 3-5
Algebra word-problem workbook for grades 3-5 (Volume 3 of a multi-volume 'chapter slice' series), aligned to NCTM Principles & Standards for School Mathematics.
Mixed math review
New York NYS Math Practice Test for Grade 6
A New York State-aligned Grade 6 math practice test (full-length, 40 questions) supporting middle school math mastery and test readiness, with a scored answer key and teacher's guide.
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Mixed math review
Last Week of School Math Activities | 7th Grade No-Prep Pack
A no-prep, 5-day Grade 7 end-of-school-year math packet (teacher guide, student worksheets, and answer key as separate files) combining math skill review with reflective/celebratory last-week-of-school activities.
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Winter Percents Word Problems Digital Escape Room
Practice solving percent word problems (finding the part, percent, or whole) through a self-checking digital escape room, with optional printable worksheet and task cards.
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Math Word Problems Grades 7 & 8 - Includes a test! Fractions, Ratios and More!
Math Word Problems Grades 7 & 8 This is a comprehensive, well-structured curriculum resource specifically designed to assist educators in teaching math to grade 7 and grade 8 students. This versatile package covers numerous essential math concepts, which include: Fractions Percentages Percentage increase, Number lines, Ratios averages…
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Bowling Percentages Worksheet
This Bowling printables/worksheets/worksheets-by-subject/math-worksheets/percentages-worksheets">Percentages Worksheet is a great resource for teachers to use with their students.
Mixed math review
Grade 6 Math Curriculum | 36 Weekly Worksheets
A full-year (36-week) Grade 6 math curriculum providing one skill-focused worksheet per week, covering ratios/rates/percents, the number system, expressions/equations, and geometry/statistics, with a teacher's guide and answer key.
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Careers Now and Then | Measure Area with Masons Day 3 | Ancient China
Day 3 of the masons unit, using a 9-yard by 9-foot wall scenario to continue practicing area, cost, and profit word problems at a higher multiplication-fact level.
Mixed math review
Halloween Math Trivia Worksheet
A math computation worksheet ('What's My Number?') that pairs arithmetic problems with Halloween trivia facts revealed by the answers.
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