Today, we looked at scale drawings and calculated actual lengths based on knowing the scale factor and the length of the scale figure.
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In this lesson, we looked at scale factors of objects including different pictures sizes, flags, and other problems that allowed students to practice creating scale drawings. .
This lesson looked at scale drawings and actual objects and portrayed them as rates.
Sorry there's not an answer key with this one...but here's the study guide if you need an extra copy.
In this lesson ripped straight from the real world, we looked at commissions, taxes, and tips, and students saw how expensive it was to live in the bay area through applications of property taxes and realtor commissions.
We began to look at more real world problems relating to percents--specifically mark up and mark down problems. Many of these involve buying consumer goods. Students enjoyed looking at different problems.
We spent more time focusing on word problems and reading the problem to help us determine how to solve challenging problems involving percent.
This lesson let us explore double number lines and other methods used to finding 100 percent. Sometimes we are given a number that is greater than 100 percent, and finding 100 percent can be more challenging.
Today, we considered problems involving percent increase and percent decrease. This will help when we talk about markup and discount.
In this lesson, we broadened our definition of part and whole to include "quantities." This lesson required more careful reading to understand what the whole actually was and what the part was.
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