Day 61: Final Quiz Prep

6th Grade Math Standards: 6.RP.3c c. 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, percentages, and decimals

Question of the Day: Is there any difference between 0.42 and .42?

Agenda:

1. Visual Pattern #34
2. QSSQ 
3. Review HW (#13-15 and the back) & Pepper
4. My Favorite No. Convert 0.3 into a percent. Convert 7% into a decimal.
5. Practice of decimal and percentage conversion
6. Study guide of converting between fractions, percentages, and fractions

Assessment: Circumventing the room during items three, five, and six of the agenda. During item two students simply brought their sticky notes up to me.

Glass Half-Full: The pace of this allowed for a good deal of feedback. I had students in work in partners on item number five in the agenda and I just circumvented the classroom. It was very apparent that the only difficulty involved one digit numbers or mixed numbers. Anything two digits the students had down. This was interesting because I resisted the temptation of telling students to slide the decimal two places. Instead I wildly praised students for writing each as a fraction out of 100 before converting.

I had students do the study guide as if it were the actual quiz. Inevitably I did give away answers and help them along, but it had a similar feel and the study guide was very much on par with the quiz.

Regrets: The homework from the night before should have had all the whole numbers changed from 2 to 1 in the four multiple choice options. I was the one that created that particular question, so score one for the math students.