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- Grade Range
- 5th - 7th
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Students work in groups of two and us M&M's to help them explain fractions, decimals and percents. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students keep track of athletes' statistics to practice using fractions, decimals, and percents. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th - Higher Ed
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Students examine elastomeric polymers in a lab activity in which they design a bungee cord. Students must determine the tensile strength, percent elongation, and plot stress versus strain graphs for their experiments on rubber bands before designing a bungee cord. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students participate in a game with M&M's to be introduced to percents and ratios. Individually, they estimate and record the number of candies they believe the bag holds and the amount of each colored candy. They open the bag and count the actual numbers and convert it into percent and decimal form. They also graph their results to end the lesson. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students investigate the concept of finding percentage by monitoring the increase of a quantity. The lesson is hard to follow because of the structure. The story for the example is quite useful though. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students investigate different concepts related to fractions. They practice conversions of changing them into percents and decimals. The lesson includes example problems for the teacher to use. They also practice finding the least common denominator. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 5th
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Students recognize the mathematical connections between fractions and percents. They develop and study graphs to make connections between their data and what it represents. They write about the connections they have discovered. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students participate in a lesson that investigate the concepts of fractions and percents. They use math manipulatives and practice converting the values. The students are engaged because of the differentiation. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students explore real life uses of fractions, decimals and percents. In groups, they rotate to stations, list examples of numbers and then share lists. Students compare and contrast lists of fractions, decimals, and percents and discuss when these representations should be used. Manipulatives may be used for hands-on examples. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students participate in a variety of sports related problem solving equations that involve fractions, decimals and percents. They explain the relationships and equivalences among integers, fractions, decimals and percents with a garbage can, a basketball and a hoop. Full Review »

