Day 60: Percent Defined

6th Grade Math Standards: 6.RP.3c. Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/100 times the quantity); solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent.

Objective: Convert fractions to percentages; convert percentages and decimals

Agenda:

1. Open Middle (third grade problem) 
2. QSSQ 
3. Pepper
4. Practice with fraction and decimal conversion
5. Percentage definition 
6. Converting between fractions, decimals and percentages notes
7. Fractions, decimals and percentages practice

Assessment: I circumvented the room as students worked out solutions to the problems. I really tried to sell students to write out the fraction before finding the decimal equivalent of a fraction. Single digit numbers are frequently a misunderstood concept because of a lack of place value knowledge and the ignorance of what the term percentage really means.

Glass Half-Full: Despite the third grade label of the warm up problem, the students were challenged and required to persevere. It was a problem that brought out students that do not normally shine and brought down those that normally do.

Regrets: I did not really do a good job of connecting the importance of this lesson to the real world. In past years, I take a box score from a sporting game, but I forgot today and also part of me said that the kids that hate sports probably hate me.