Making Per-sense: Percent of Change | PBS LearningMedia
Making Per"sense": Percent of Change- Explore proportional reasoning with percent of change. Proportions are applied to real-world problems to demonstrate how changes in prices or amounts affect the percent of increase or decrease. In the accompanying classroom activity, students work together as a class and then in small groups to calculate price changes and the percent of change that these changes represent for grocery items, houses, and stock prices.
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Consumer Math with Percent Applications
Consumer Math is presented through Percent Applications in this unit. Lessons include percent and proportions, discount and sale price, simple interest, commission, sales tax and percent increase and decrease. Real-life money problems are used throughout this unit.
Percent of a Number | PBS LearningMedia
Percent of a Number- In this interactive, students learn how to use proportions to solve percent problems. In the accompanying classroom activity, students begin with an introduction to percents, focusing on the difference between “part” and “whole.” They solve some basic percent problems by setting up proportions and then complete the interactive, which walks them through percents, proportions, and some real-life examples of when to use both.
