Markup, Markdown, or Just a Percent? TEST

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Objective

Students will be able to solve a variety of percent application problems.

Big Idea

See the fruits of your labor! Students will showcase their understanding of percent on this application test!

Lesson Author

Heather Stephan

Elon, NC

Grade Level

Seventh grade

Subjects

Math

Number Sense and Operations

Standards

7.RP.A.3

Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems. Examples: simple interest, tax, markups and markdowns, gratuities and commissions, fees, percent increase and decrease, percent error.

MP1

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

MP2

Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

MP4

Model with mathematics.

Launch

10 minutes

Opener: As students enter the room, they will immediately pick up and begin working on the opener – Instructional Strategy - Process for openers. This method of working and going over the opener lends itself to allow students to construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others, which is mathematical practice 3.

Learning Target: After completion of the opener, I will address the day’s learning targets to the students. For today’s lesson, the intended target is, “I can apply percent to solve real world problems.” Students will jot the learning target down in their agendas (our version of a student planner, there is a place to write the learning target for every day).

Explore

45 minutes

Test Reflection

smartboard notes.pdf

Markups Markdowns Test: Today students will take the Percent Test, using Mastery Connect. All problems on the test are real world applications MP 4, that require students to reason abstractly and quantitatively to solve them MP 2. As with any test, students will need to pay attention to precision MP 6, and persevere to solve the problems MP 1.