Percentage

Grade 6 Lesson Plan- Taylor Hardy2014

Agenda

1. Investigation2. Whole group instruction3. Examples4. Assessment5. Practice

Outcome: (N6.5) Demonstrate understanding of percent (limited to whole numbers to 100) concretely, pictorially, and symbolically

Where do we see percents?• Examples:

Investigation

What is a Percent?

A percentage means per one-hundred or divide by 100

Example: I have a shirt that’s 90% cotton and 10% spandex. This means that if there were 100 threads in my shirt, 90 of them would be made of cotton and 10 threads are spandex.

Relationships with Percents

Fractions

Numbers of 100

Decimals

EXAMPLE:

⅕ = 20%EXAMPLE:

20 out of 100 = 20%

EXAMPLE:

0.20 = 20%

EXAMPLES