Basketball as a Context for Percentages

Students learn to associate simple fractions (25%, 50%, 75% as well as 20% and multiples) of wholes with equivalent percentages in the context of basketball scores and stadium capacity.

Finding the Right Crystal

The CyberSquad has to find a crystal that is between 65% and 85% orange to power up their escape from Hacker in this video from Cyberchase.

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Introduction to Comparing Fractions by Using Percents

Students are introduced to percents as a way to compare fractions with unlike denominators.

Mission Magnetite

In this Cyberchase interactive, try to stop Hacker by matching up percentages with their equivalent fraction and picture representations.

Percentage of Populations with Diabetes

Students learn about percentages in relation to the study of diabetes. They look at a nutrition label and apply various skills to answering questions about the label.

Percentages in Basketball

WNBA athletes discuss attendance at basketball games in terms of percentages in this video segment from TV 411.

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Percent as a Means to Compare Fractions

In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad uses fractions and percents to compare the contest results of the Squitters, little creatures who love to jump.

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A Tip on Tipping

This TV 411 segment features a lesson from Question Man on how to informally calculate 15% tips at restaurants.

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Using Percents to Calculate Tips

Students learn to calculate 10% of a number by understanding it as one-tenth of the number. They also learn how to do this by moving the decimal point and how to apply this knowledge to calculating tips.