Percents lesson plan

LESSON PLAN for Mathematics
Maria Angala, ELA/ Math Resource Teacher
DATES: For the week of Oct 13-17, 2008
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Standard(s) for the week
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6.NSO-C.8. Select and use appropriate operations to solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and positive integer exponents with whole numbers and with positive fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, and percentages.
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Goal(s)/ Expectation(s) for the Week
- Name other ways (ie, money) to compare equivalent fractions and decimals.
- Use visual representations (ie, money) to compare equivalent fractions and decimals.
- Constructing visual representations (pictures, models, etc) to compare equivalent decimals and percents.
- Calculate equivalent fractions, mixed numbers, percentages, or decimals.
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BIG IDEAS:

- We can use the bar graph to compare equivalent fractions, decimals and fractions.
- Another way to represent fractions and decimals is using percents.

Guided Instruction & Independent Practice/Study

DAY 1
Whole group instruction:
http://jc-schools.net/PPT/Percent%20I.ppt
Show PowerPoint Presentation on comparing money, fractions and percents.
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Individual work:
Students define percent, and list down the new concepts to remember on percents in their notebooks.
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DAY 2
Whole group instruction:
http://jc-schools.net/PPT/Percent%20III.ppt
Show PowerPoint presentation on how to change fractions to percents.
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(Classroom of the Future)
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Show & Tell:
Student solve problems and present to the class using the Activboard.
More board work on how to change fractions to percents.
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DAY 3
Whole group instruction:
http://jc-schools.net/PPT/Percent%20II.ppt
Show PowerPoint presentation on how to find percent of a whole number.
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Cooperative Learning:
-Give the Moolahs that the students earned since the beginning of the school year. Let them count how much Moolahs they already earned at present. Their goal is to get 100 Moolahs by February.
-How much have they earned? How much is that in decimal, percent? How much do they still have to earn to get to the goal? How much is that in decimal, percent?
- Make a class graph of this Moolah system (Behavior Modification System) to show the students how far they have been doing with regards to accomplishing their goal in learning and behavior.
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DAY 4
Cooperative Learning:
- The “Pants & Shirts Store” is now on sale. We are going to shop with our partner.
- From the cards of pants and shirts on the board, choose the pants card for one student and the shirts card for his/her partner.
- You will calculate the price of the pants and the price of the shirt using the original price and percentage off tags.
- The student records the price on the answer form. Compare price with your partner.
- The student writes the appropriate symbol in the blank to tell which item has the lowest price.
- The student repeats the process until all cards in a set have been used.
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ASSESSMENTS:
- Q&A
- Answer Word Problems involving percents: http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT/PercentNumber.ppt
- Math jeopardy: http://www.quia.com/cb/34887.html
- Quiz on fractions, decimals, and percents.