Lesson Plan

Solving Percent Problems III

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What happens when combining percentage discounts? The last lesson in a series of 29 introduces the idea of combining discounts one after another. Pupils wrestle with the claim that to find the total discount, they need to only add the two together, which they find is not the case.

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CCSS: Designed
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Instructional Ideas
  • Provide practice of finding other percents associated with 10% of a quantity
  • Lead a brainstorming session on how to find the total discount by taking multiple percent discounts
Classroom Considerations
  • The class should understand finding a percent of a number
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