January
9
This Week in Math: Percents, Commission, and Simple Interest, Oh My!
Learning Goals for this Percent Lesson
- Students will understand how percents and proportions are related.
- Students will apply knowledge of percents to real-world applications, including taxes, tips, percent error, commissions, markups and markdowns, gratuities, and percent of change.
Vocabulary: Practice on Quizlet Live
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Vocabulary Words: unit rate, ratios, proportions, constant of proportionality, quantities, equivalent ratios, percent, tax, markup, discount/markdown, commission, gratuity, fees, percent increase/decrease, percent error, cross product |
Weekly Plans!
Monday: Quiz on last week’s concepts of percent and proportion
- Review Schmoop Video – Percent of Change
- Students will take a test on Schoolnet on percents and proportions (word problems).
Tuesday: Markup, Markdown, and Sales Tax
- Sales tax and discount video
- “Brain Strain”
- Weekly warm-up – Monday & Tuesday
- Complete graphic organizer on mark-up, mark-down, sales tax
- Notes on Commission
Wednesday: Simple Interest
- Brainpop – Simple Interest
- Weekly warm-up – Wednesday
- Brain strain based on previous day’s assessment prompt
- Interactive Study Guide 6-6 on Simple Interest
- Simple Interest Graphic Organizer
- Simple Interest Practice Problems
Thursday: Review of Concepts
- Kahoot on Simple Interest
- Brain strain based on previous day’s assessment prompt
- Weekly warm-up – Thursday
- Percent “Crosswords”
- Create a word problem in which another student must find either the simple interest, principal, rate, or time. Make sure to create an answer key along with steps to solving the problem.
Friday: Percent of Change, Commission, and Simple Interest Quiz
- Weekly warm-up – Friday
- Schoolnet Quiz on Percents, Commission, Simple Interest
Opportunity for Bonus Points on a Test! Due by January 25th
Homework for the week:
- Spiral Review – Due Friday