[leonsicecream]

I am looking for some fun ways to teach conversion of fractions, decimals, and percents. example 25% = 25/100 = .25.

[love2learn]

Make up index cards before hand. Group them in 3's (.25 on one card, 1/4 on another, 25% on the third) make up however many sets of three you need to give a card to each of the students in your class. Once the cards have been shuffled, pass one to each student. Have them find their 'family' WITHOUT MAKING A SOUND. When .20, 1/5 and 20% find each other they have to put their cards on a large number line in the front of the class. It's a great way to get them all involved, and gets them up and around the classroom.

[Tatha]

I used 10 x 10 grids with my students. They were allowed to "design a tile" they would like to see in their homes. You may want to start with only allowing them the use of one crayon and add more colors later. After the design process was finished, they identified shaded and/or unshaded parts of their tile as equivalent fractions, decimals, and percents. Depending on how far you want to go with this activity, you could also used other sized grids (5 x 5, etc.) and have students identify equivalent fractions, decimals, and percents with calculators and/or long division.

[lovesummer]

I make up several bags with a mixture of M&Ms (plain/peanut/etc) and then create a table with the different colors/types on there and a column for writing the fraction/decimal/percent for each one. The kids seem to like this and then I give them their own small snack bag at the end of it. It even works on rounding to the nearest hundredths because several of the fractions won't terminate when dividing. You would probably want to make sure and check for peanut allergies before doing this even though the bags I had out to the kids are Ziplock. When I become an all important "Junior Member" I would be happy to attach the table I have used before if you would like. It's pretty basic but sometimes it helps to see an example.