Unit Two: Percents

Length of Unit: 3 weeks

Unit 2: Percentages

Guiding question: What are some of the ways we can communicate information about the state of our world?

Areas of Interaction:

Health and Social Education: Using percentages to give a better understanding of health related issues.

What am I going to learn in this unit?

¨ To convert between percentages, fractions and decimals

¨ To find a percentage of an amount

¨ To find an amount given the percentage

¨ To find the percentage given the part and the whole

¨ Using mental and written strategies

¨ Apply percentages to real life problems.

What other skills/concepts will I need to use?

¨ Unit conversion

¨ Show your work clearly step by step

¨ Be patient and persistent

¨ Draw conclusions

To be successful I will:

¨ Complete the investigations: “Are Percentages misused?” (B, C, D) and

Nutrition & World Hunger (A,C, D)

¨ show I understand the skills and concepts by doing well on the Unit Test (A, C)

¨ Complete all the homework and class work that is set (C)

¨ Be prepared to class with the required material (Commitment to Learning)

¨ Keep notebook organised and up-to-date (Commitment to Learning)

¨ Stay focused during class (Commitment to Learning)

Classroom requirements:

¨ Text book, maths folder, pen, pencil, ruler, eraser, calculator

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