Percentage Patches

Grade Level(s):  1^st -6^th Grade

Content Area:                                                                        Process Area:

Numbers and Operations                                           Problem-Solving

Algebra                                                           Reasoning and Proof

Geometry                                                                    Communication

Measurement                                                             Representation

Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability                    Connections

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.RP.A.3: Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations.

·         CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.RP.A.3.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.

Targeted Needs of Student:

Finding percentage on an individual basis, seeing parts of a whole, representing percentage not out of 100, understanding relation of percentage and fractions

Goal:

To provide students with practice determining the percentage of a set of colors

Materials Needed:

1.      Coloring utensils

2.      Grid paper

3.      Fraction sheet

Explanation/Summary:

Students will be given grid paper and allowed to make a design on their paper using the coloring utensils. Then they will use the fraction sheet to write how many squares of each color they have out of the whole number. The whole number of squares could be 100 or it could be out of another number. The students will then determine the percentage of each color and write that on the fraction sheet.

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