Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Percents Part 2

Visual Percents

http://www.mathplayground.com/visualpercent.html





Essential Questions


 How can two amounts of change be the same but the percents of change be different?




 Which method of finding the total price of a bill with a 20% tip do you prefer?
 What are two methods you could use to find the sale price of an item that is discounted by a percent? How can you use a formula to find simple interest?

Monday, January 5, 2015

Percents


This chapter focuses on content from the Ratios and Proportional Relationships (RP) domain and addresses the following grade 7 standards: 7.RP.2, 7.RP.2, 7.RP.3, 7.EE.2, 7.EE.3.

Essential Question  How can percent help you understand situations involving money?

How do you find the percent of a number?





Find percent of a number by writing a percent as a fraction


Will 5% of 300 be greater than or less than 300? Why?

What is 5% written as a fraction in simplest form?

 What expression can be used to find 1/20  of 300? 


Find percent of a number by writing a percent as a decimal

Will 25% of 180 be greater than or less than 180? Why?

What is 25% written as a decimal?

How would you find 25% of 180?



Use percents greater than 100%

Will 120% of 75 be greater than or less than 75? Why?

What is 120% written as a fraction?

What expression is used to find 120% of 75?



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