Percent Increase and Decrease Quiz

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Holiday Fun. Working with Percents solved with Proportions and Mental Shortcuts

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Interactive PowerPoint Math Lessons and Worksheets

Here is a fun PowerPoint activity with a holiday theme to use in December. In this lesson, students will be shopping for gifts, calculating sales commission, and determining the amount of weight lost by Santa! The lesson involves solving percentage problems with proportions. Next, you will be solving the same problem using mental math. Handouts coincide with the presentation which enables the students to work along to complete the proportions and apply mental math skills. Two full page handout

5th - 8th

Mental Math, Other (Math)

Australian Coins - Problem solving activities

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The Wizened Owl

Notebook file contains interactive activities that increase in challenge on following pages. Concepts include: 1. Ordering coins in value 2. Differing ways students can make a select coin value 3. Calculating a value of coins given 4. Calculating change needed 5. Problem solving - what can combinations of items represented can be afforded with a set total? Notebook activities offer differing levels of challenge and activities could provide whole year's worth of interactive money challenges for

1st - 3rd

Basic Operations, Mental Math, Other (Math)

Math: Number Talks (Smart Board + PowerPoint) handouts/directions/examples

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Mathster Vakkas

This Number Talks bundle includes the Smart Board document and PowerPoint slideshow. Number Talks increase computational fluency. ★My students love Number Talks. They are short and allow students to do mental computation and explain (using mathematical language) and defend their answers, as well as allow the opportunity for students to defend, support, or appropriately disagree with their peers' answers. This is a powerful tool to develop math discourse and also a class culture of accepting a

K - 6th

Basic Operations, Math, Mental Math