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PRE-PLANNING STEPS
Title: Finding Percents Using Equations
Lesson Standards / Essential Questions
MT 1.2A Use estimation strategies and judge the reasonableness of percent problems.
How are equations used to find percents?
Lesson Learning Goals and Objectives
a. Students will be able to perform mathematical operations involving fractions and percents.
b. Students will be able to convert fractions to percent.
c. Apply concepts of ratios, proportions, percents, and number theory (i.e. primes, factors and
multiples) in practical and other mathematical situations.
d. Create, solve, and justify the solution for the multi-step, real-life problems including those with
ratio and proportion.
Materials (Including technology infusion if appropriate)
Textbook: Algebraic Thinking, Part One
Calculator
Smartboard (dry erase board)
INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES (BDA)
Before Instructional Strategies (Introduction)
Time Needed: 17 min.
Lesson Starter: Discuss what students already know about percents, the mathematical symbol %, and
what it means.
On the board, draw a strip, telling the students the strip represents 100 and then fill in 25% to
representing . Using another color, fill the strip to 50%, representing . Then fill up to 75%,
representing and, finally, fill up to 100% representing the whole unit.
For todays lesson:
Go over the means-extremes property of proportions which allows cross multiplying, taking the
product of the means and setting them equal to the product of the extremes.
Go through these problems first and use this lesson to practice using proportions to solve percents.
One of the important things students need to know from the lesson is that 52% is 52 over a 100
52
or 100. An Important concept of % = percent, or per hundred, is a calculation of how much out
of one hundred parts something is.
After they have found the answers, start to discuss writing an equation for each percent (%)
problem.
Student Prerequisite Knowledge:
1. , , , and the whole number, primes, factors and multiples in practical and other mathematic
situations.
2. Means-extremes property of proportions.
New Knowledge:
1. Relationship between a percent (%) and means-extremes property of proportions.
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