Day 62: Fraction, Percentages, and Decimals Quiz

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 between fractions, percentages, and decimals; compare and order fractions, decimals ,and percentages

Agenda:

1. Quick study guide review (especially interleaving problem)
2. QSSQ 
3. Take the quiz
4. Fix the weekly quiz 
5. Find two factors that have a product of 1,000,000
6. At the start of the next class pass out notes on comparing and ordering fractions, percentages, and decimals but I had students work in groups rather than do it as a lecture. The format worked well in the disciplined classes, but as much in the classes that were hyperactive. 
7. Did page 135 #25-27 for homework. 

Assessment: Circumvented the room during number six. The quiz and weekly quiz were corrected by me.

Glass Half-Full: I'm happy that I only gave three homework problems. No need for more as I can tell who is doing well and who needs remediation from there.

Regrets: On the quiz most students struggled with making 3/8 a percentage. It could have been better highlighted as an area of concern coming into today. Not to say that the concept was not reviewed, but we should have been a star next to the concept of percentages with decimals.