Activities about percent

A fellow teacher, Laura Deschaines , saw this chart on the news the other night. What do you notice? Does anything seem amiss? What should it look like?...

A Danish market found an interesting way to limit hoarding of hand sanitizer. How much are these costs in your currency? What is the unit price on these...

I checked my data usage for the month. What do you notice and wonder (see the activity)? What could my data plan be? How much have I used?...

Texas gets to send a lot more delegates to the July National Democratic Convention than New Hampshire does. How do they figure out what each state's fair number...

Bring a little K-pop music to your class with this activity. Jason Kibbe, a terrific middle school math teacher in Chambersburg, PA , sent us an activity that...

What's the big deal with our deficit? Do we actually borrow money to cover our debt? If we do, imagine the interest charges? Help your students (and their...

Students look at the past and present populations of the U.S. and the past and present population of school attendees to calculate the percentage of the population that...

There is some beautiful land in Utah that was changed last year from federally protected land to Utah overseen land. The buttes of Bears Ears (shown above) and...

Tornadoes have devastated the Midwest, U.S. in the last few days. Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Mississippi have been brutally hit with these powerful...

552-carat diamond found in Diavik Mine, Northwest Territories, Canada Can you tell just how big this gem is? Do you know how big a carat is? What would...

TJ Watt was fined for roughing the passer. Check out the tweet from Darren Rovell and engage your students in a familiar context for a classic percent problem...

How much water is used? How much water could be saved? For Adventurer members we have an editable Word docx and solutions with added world-wide information.