This week, students will take a look at North Carolina Common Cores Standard 7.RP.3: Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems (examples: simple interest, tax, markups and markdowns, gratuities, commissions, fees, percent increase and decrease, and percent error).

Monday: Students take a pre-assessment on percents to determine their current level of understanding of percent. Additionally, they complete a foldable on conversations between decimals, fractions, and percents and watch a video on Learnzillion on using a double number line to find percent of a number.

Tuesday: Students learn how percents are related to proportions and take notes on using proportional reasoning to determine the part, the whole, or the percent in a percent problem. Online, they complete their fliers from last week discussing Constant of Proportionality and play a percent Kahoot!

Wednesday: Students learn about how to find percent using the percent equation as a whole group, apply either the equation or proportion model to finding percent increase or decrease, then break into stations based upon their pre-assessments from Monday. Some students will work on calculating percents using visual aids while others will analyze a comic strip and apply their knowledge of percent problems to the comic strip.

Thursday: Students will practice more with finding percent increase and decrease, then view sales papers from Walgreens to see how percents are used in the real world. They will go online to create their own sales paper with markdowns and discounts.

Friday: Students will begin class by creating flow charts on finding percent increase and decrease, then will complete the Restaurant Madness activity to demonstrate their knowledge of the concepts learned throughout the week. This will be used as a project/test grade, but students will work in partners to complete the activity.

Some videos to view in order to increase knowledge of percents:

Finding a Percent

Percent Word Problems