• Estimating with fractions and decimals

PBS:  Mix It Up!
In this teacher directed lesson, students will be introduced to proportional reasoning through modeling, student sharing, and questioning techniques.

PBS: How Many Noses Are in Your Arm?
Teacher directed lesson where students will apply the concept of ratio and proportion to determine the length of the Statue of Liberty's torch bearing arm.

The Incredible, Edible Orange
Students investigate the proportional relationship between the edible part of an orange and the peel or inedible part of an orange.  They will investigate different types of oranges such as navel, blood and Clementine's to see if there is a common percentage of edible to inedible.

Golden Ratios:
Student directed lesson on the golden ratio.

• Golden Ratio Activities
  This site provides 8 real-life connections for understanding the Golden Ratio.

Fun With Estimation: 
Teacher lesson plan teaching students participate in a simulation game to purchase items based on estimated costs without going over budget.

Would You Rather Have...? 
Teacher directed lesson plan allowing students to decide which would be worth more, their weight in pennies, nickels, or dimes.

Scavenger Hunt for Lengths: 
Students estimate and then measure the length of classroom objects.

All Those Advertising Dollars!
After getting information from advertising statistics available on the Internet, students will calculate percent increases for the top 25 companies in terms of advertising dollars spent during a year.

The Winning Edge:  Probability in Basketball
In this classroom activity, students will calculate percentages based upon simulated performances of a statistically significant number of discrete events.

Exquisite Excursions
This discovery lesson is designed to encompass several class periods.  Students will plan a trip to 6 world cities and use their math skills to solve problems encountered along the way.

Photo-Math
Photo Math games were "designed to be used by slow learners, they were also found exciting by all of my other students.

Learning About Ratios: A Sandwich Study
This is a discovery type lesson where student use tangible objects to study ratios.

Ratios, Mars and the Internet
In this lesson students are involved in calculating real ratios that exist between Earth and Mars.

Choice and Chance in Life - The Game of "Skunk": 
In this teacher directed lesson, students will practice decision making skills leading to a better understanding of choice versus chance and building the foundation of mathematical probability.

The Great Race: 
In this teacher directed lesson, students will construct charts to examine number patterns and use these patterns to generate a graph of the situation.  This is a PDF file.

Lesson Plans Page - M&M Lab
In this lesson, students will practice computing and comparing fractions and percents.

Academy Curricular Exchange - Fraction Conversion Bingo
Students will realize the relationships between fractions, decimals, and percents.

Euclid - Fractions Equivalent Fractions and Decimals
The students, after a demonstration and explanation on number sense for fraction and decimals, will be able to relate fractions to decimals and find and compare equivalent fractions.

All About Ratios: 
Collection of student exercises in ratio and proportion problems. Designed to be completed on the computer, but may be printed.

21st Century Problem Solving:
A website devoted to problem solving literacy.

Math Goodies:  Understanding Percent
The goal of this unit is to introduce the concept of percent and to teach conversions between fraction, decimals and percents.

Math Goodies:  Writing Fractions as Percent
The goal of this lesson is to give students problems that focus on writing fractions as decimals.  The examples focus on real-life situations.

Fun and Sun Rent-A-Car:
Students are presented with a real-world dilemma.  They will discover the best deal among rental car rates. Includes both print and on-line versions.

Math Playground:
Collection of word problems, math games, and logic puzzles.

Skill in Arithmetic:
Ratio and Proportion lesson focusing on ratios, percents as ratios, and proportion.  This is a teacher directed lesson.

Famous Texas Chili: 
Brief online student directed practice in problem-solving. Student determines missing ingredient in chili recipe.

Ole Miss Problem of the Week:  
Students can e-mail answers to word problems that are posted on this site and receive feedback about their answers.

Estimation and Rounding: 
A plethora of student directed lessons that include explanations, interactive practice, and challenge games about estimation. 

Which Holds The Most?:
Teacher directed activities allowing students to practice their estimation and measurement skills. This is a PDF file.

Solving Problems "by the Hundreds":  A Study of Percentage and Its Applications in the Study of Consumer Related Problems
This unit has been designed to give students a better understanding of percent.  Students will understand percent, convert percent to decimal and fraction, solve for sales tax, gratuities, discount, commission, simple interest, compound interest and much more.

Math Playground
Students can use this interactive webpage to practice their conversion skills.

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