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Percents and Shopping

Percents and Shopping!

Percents and Shopping!

 

Learning Goal: Convert Percents into Decimals and Fractions (and vice versa) and find the percent of a number.

Step #1: Go to
Math Dictionary for Kidsand look up the word "Percent". Play around with the “Percentage Bar” and move on.

Step #2: How do you convert between fractions, decimals and percents? Try this website and play with each of the 3 options for a few minutes.
Click here.


Step #3: Time to fine tune those math skills. Convert percents to fractions! Get 5 problems right and move on.
Click here.

Step #4: Now lets try converting percents to decimals! Get 5 problems right and move on.
Click here.


Step #5: Forgot how to convert fractions to decimals? No problem,
click hereto discover what you already knew . . . that the fraction bar means “divide”. You can move on after a couple of minutes.

Step #6: Curious how to find the percent of a number?
Try this website, it helps you right through it. Try a few problems and continue to the next step.

Step #7: Now practice this skill! Get 5 problems right and move on.
Click here.

Step #8: Ready to Shop? Ok, but first you must prove your skills by playing this
shopping game. You only need to play “Level 1”. You must play it at least 2 times before moving on.

 

 

LETS GO SHOPPING!

 

 

Please fill in the handout as you shop online. You will need to find the amount of the tax after you find the sale price of each item. Hint: 7.5% is what decimal?

 

Click on the websites below to shop. You may only pick from these stores.

 

Best Buy

Walmart

Limited Too

Aeropostale

Footlocker

Toys R’ Us

Old Navy

Coach

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