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Percent games, tutorials, and worksheets online

Games and tools

Virtual Manipulative: Percentages
Interactive tool where you fill in any two of the three 'boxes' (whole, part, and percent) and it will calculate the missing part and show the result visually in two ways.
matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/frames_asid_160_g_2_t_1.html

Mission: Magnetite
Hacker tries to drop magnetite on Motherboard. To stop him, match up percentages, fractions, and images showing fractional parts.
pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/percent/percent.html

Fractions and Percent Matching Game
A simple matching game: match fractions and percentages.
www.mathplayground.com/matching_fraction_percent.html

Math Mammoth Percent A self-teaching worktext for 5th-7th grade that covers percent, percentage of a number, discounts, sales tax, percent of change, and comparisons with percent. Available as an affordable download ($3.50), and also as a printed copy. => Learn more and see the free samples! See more topical Math Mammoth books

Fraction/Decimal/Percent Jeopardy
Answer the questions correctly, changing between fractions, decimals, and percentages.
www.quia.com/cb/34887.html

Flower Power
Grow flowers and harvest them to make money in this addictive order-'em-up game. Practice ordering decimals, fractions, and percentages. The game starts with ordering decimals (daisies), and proceeds into fractions (tulips or roses).
www.mangahigh.com/games/flowerpower

Percent Shopping
Choose toys to purchase. In level 1, you find the sale price when the original price and percent discount are known. In level 2, you find the percent discount when the original price and the sale price are known.
www.mathplayground.com/percent_shopping.html

Penguin Waiter
Simple game where you calculate the correct tip to leave the penguin waiter.
www.funbrain.com/penguin

Comparing Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages
Factsheets, a nice matching pairs game, online quiz, and printable worksheets.
www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/fractiondecimalpercentage/comparing/comparingall3

Worksheets & quizzes for percentages, ratios, and proportions
Several online quizzes and a few PDF worksheets for these topics.
www.math4children.com/Topics/Percentages

Proportioner
An interactive tool (Java). Manipulate images and compare their dimensions to the dimensions of other images. Specify image dimensions graphically, numerically or using a scale factor.
http://seeingmath.concord.org/resources_files/Proportioner.html

Tutorials

Free percent videos
Percent videos by the author of this site about various topics, such as percentage of a number, sales tax, discounts, percent of change, and percent of comparison.
www.mathmammoth.com/videos/percent.php

Percent
A lesson about the concept of percent and how to change fractions to percents; also includes a video.
www.homeschoolmath.net/teaching/percent/percent.php

Percent of a number using mental math
A lesson about how to find a percentage of a number using mental math; also includes a video.
www.homeschoolmath.net/teaching/percent/percent_of_number_mental_math.php

Math Mammoth Percent A self-teaching worktext for 5th-7th grade that covers percent, percentage of a number, discounts, sales tax, percent of change, and comparisons with percent. Available as an affordable download ($3.50), and also as a printed copy. => Learn more and see the free samples! See more topical Math Mammoth books

Percent of a number using decimals
A lesson about how to find a percentage of a number using decimals; also includes a video.
www.homeschoolmath.net/teaching/percent/percent_of_number_using_decimals.php

"What percentage..." / "How many percent...?"
A lesson about how to solve "What percentage..." / "How many percent...?" types of problems; also includes a video.
www.homeschoolmath.net/teaching/percent/what_percentage.php

A Conceptual Model for Solving Percent Problems
Explanation of how to use a 10 x 10 grid to explain basic concept of percent, AND solve various types of percent problems.
illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L249

PERCENTAGE from Maisonet Math
Includes PDF worksheets, online quizzes, and videos about various percent topics.
www.mrmaisonet.com/Menu_Pages/percentage_page.htm

Meaning of Percent
Writing Fractions as Percents
Percents and Proportions
Free percent lessons from Math Goodies. Their CD has many more.
www.mathgoodies.com/lessons

Money Math
A crystal-clear tutorial on interest.
www.intmath.com/Money-Math/Money-Maths.php

Using the Proportion Method to Solve Percent Problems
Clear illustration of the proportion method, how to solve it, and online practice exercises.
amby.com/educate/math/4-2_prop.html

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