Tuesday, December 04, 2012 11:04 AM

Approaching Percents with Proportions

1) Write a proportion you could use to solve the following problem. Be sure to include the units. 16 cookies require 1.5 cups of flour. How many cups of flour would 20 cookies require?

2) Rewrite the proportion from number 1 with ONLY the units (without numbers, just use the words). You are showing how the units or words are essential in setting up a proportion correctly.

3) Explain how the units in a proportion are essential when setting up a proportion.

4) What does percent mean (the definition of percent)?

5) Write 30% as a fraction.

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6) What is the denominator of any percent written as a fraction?

7) Think of percent as part of a whole. What number would represent the whole?

8) If I have a bowl of apples and 50 out of 120 are red apples, what is the part and what is the whole in this situation?

9) Set up a proportion to figure out what percent of the apples in the previous question are red and solve.

10) What is the formula for the percent proportion?

11) Use your formula to answer the following question: 150 out of 720 students at Cary Academy have been in the All About Animals club. What percent of students, rounded to the nearest whole, have been in the All About Animals club?

12) Make up a word problem that can be solved with your formula and apply the formula to
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12) Make up a word problem that can be solved with your formula and apply the formula to your word problem. A lacrosse has 78 players, if 45 players scored, what percent of players scored.

Follow Up: 1. Watch the video "Percent Proportion": http://discovery.caryacademy.org/castreams/2011/01/percent-proportion/ 13 min 2. Practice: http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-8/find-what-percent-one-number-is-of-another-wordproblems (In One Note under Percent Proportion create a page called IXL Practice. Complete 8 problems showing all steps in One Note and take a screenshot of the last problem and paste it into the same page in One Note.) 3. Watch the video "Percent of Change": http://discovery.caryacademy.org/castreams/2011/03/percent-change/ 11 min 4. Practice: http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/percents/e/percentage_word_problems_ 1 (In One Note under Percent of Change create a page called Khan Practice. Complete 8 problems showing all steps in One Note and take a screenshot of the last problem and paste it into the same page in One Note.)
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