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Thursday, October 22, 2015

10/22 Lesson 5.1.2 What is the Percentage of the Whole?

1.  Warm-up:  Quick write.  How did it go yesterday?  Do you understand how to calculate percent using a diagram?  Rate your understanding on a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 is "I don't get it at all. Help!" and 5 is "I totally understand. I could teach this topic to others."

Whole-class debrief

2.  Lesson 5.1.2 What is the Percentage of the Whole?

  • Objective:  I will calculate discount (sale) prices using my knowledge of percentages
  • Discussion:  Think about your experience shopping at a sale.  How have you seen prices advertised?  How do you determine if you are getting a great deal?
  • Do: Problems 14-17 in teams.
  • Put a check under your team number after everyone in your team completes a problem (and agrees on an answer)
3.  Closure:  How might you find the sale price of an item that was discounted 13% without using a visual model?

Homework:  Lesson 5.1.2 R/P (answers in GC)