Percentages Word Problem Task Cards or Worksheet (both formats included) – Real-World Math for Grades 6-8

Help students master percentages through real-world problems! This engaging set of 16 task cards blends everyday scenarios with high-interest topics like shopping, sports, school life, animals, and social media to make math meaningful and fun.

Students will apply key percent skills to solve authentic problems—perfect for small group work, partner work, centers, homework, early finishers, or review before assessments. These real-world problems could even be used as assessment questions or preparation for state tests like the SBA, PARC, CAASPP, or STAAR.

✨ Skills Covered

This set of problems reinforces core percentage concepts, including:

• Finding the percent of a number (e.g., sale prices, discounts, and taxes)
  
• Finding the whole when given the percent and part
  
• Calculating percent increase and decrease (price changes, population changes)
  
• Converting fractions and decimals to percents

• Solving multi-step problems involving discounts, coupons, and sales tax