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- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students get prepared to apply arithmetic operations on rational numbers to solve problems and apply the concepts of rate, ratio, percent, and proportion to solve problems in meaningful contexts. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students problem solve in order to find percentages of numbers, find percents using proportions and to calculate the weight of objects, in grams, when given specific percents. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students work with changing from ratios to fractions, fractions to decimals, and decimals to percents. They use the skills in the real world of keeping statistics for a basketball game. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students apply the concept of ration and percents to the distribution of letters contained in a box of Alphabits cereal. Students are given samples from the cereal box and tabulate the number of times each letter of the alphabet occurs and the total number of letters included in their sample. Fractions, ratios and percentages are calculated and individual data is compiled into class data. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students encounter the use of percentages in the real world. The lesson begins with finding sales tax and discounts on purchases. Using 10 by 10 grids, students represent percent to develop conceptual understanding of the real world applications and relate fractional parts to the percentages. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students describe and model the relationship of fractions to decimals, percents, ratios, and proportions. They explore how to solve distance, time, and rate problems using fractions, decimals, percents, ratios, and proportions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th
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Students solve distance, time, and rate problems using fractions, decimals, percents, ratios, and proportions. They define key vocabulary terms, observe the teacher model a variety of examples, and independently solve ratio, proportion, and rate problems. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students play the game of Jeopardy and the Web site, BrainPOP, theyreview a 6th Grade Math Unit on Ratio, Proportion and Percents. Their teams are given equal opportunity to provide answers but there is an element of "chance" included to keep the game exciting! Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students list questions of a mathematical nature which could be used as a basis for investigating the contents of a box of Alphabits cereal. Pupils investigate the percent of representation of each letter of the alphabet found in a box of Alphabits. They discover that this experiment could lead to finding out information about some of the outher questions they posed. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students, in teams of four, practice shooting free throws while mentally converting the ratio of shots made to those thrown into a percent. They chart and record the ratio, decimal and actual percentage earned after each round. Full Review »
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