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Hot Shots 1

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Achievement Objectives:

Achievement Objective: Find fractions, decimals, and percentages of amounts expressed as whole numbers, simple fractions, and decimals.

Purpose: 

These exercises and activities are for students to use independently of the teacher to practice number properties.

Specific Learning Outcomes: 

find a percentage of an amount

Description of mathematics: 

Proportions and Ratios, AM (Stage 7)

Required Resource Materials: 
Practice exercises with answers (PDF or Word)
Homework exercises with answers (PDF or Word)
Activity: 

Prior Knowledge

Basic multiplication facts
Simplify fractions
Convert fractions to decimals
Students who can know simple percentages equivalent to ½ or ¼ etc, and their equivalent value as decimals will find this activity very accessible.

Background

In this activity students use a percentage strip to calculate percentages. The percentage strip allows students to see the percentage as a proportion.  Percentages can be used to compare fractions.

Comments on the Exercises

Exercise 1
Asks students to use the percentage strips to work out percentages like 9 out of 18.

Exercise 2
Asks students to solve word problems that involve finding a percentage.

Related Resources: 

These activities can be used to follow the teaching episodes based on, Book 7, Hot Shots and are for those students who are able to use the associated number properties.

AttachmentSize
HotShotsClass1.doc81 KB
HotShotsHome1.doc40.5 KB

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