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Structured inquiry

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Percentages inquiry

 

Think on your own about this equation and write down an idea or ideas.

You will share your idea with your neighbour and agree on one idea to share with the class.

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Question, notice, wonder

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Do now

 

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Question, notice, wonder

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How do we learn in a mixed attainment class?

In this lesson

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This is our learning journey for our lessons on percentages.

You might not have to start at the beginning of the journey, and you might not finish the journey this year.

Define

percentage as

‘number of parts

per hundred’.

Calculate the

percentage of

a number.

Work with

percentages

greater than

100%.

Increase and decrease an amount by a percentage.

Use a decimal multiplier to increase and decrease an amount by a percentage.

Express one quantity as a percentage of another.

Work out a number given a percentage of the number.

Calculate the original value after a percentage change (reverse percentages).

Calculate simple interest and compound interest in financial mathematics; depreciation.

Learning journey Percentages

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In this lesson we will decide how we are going to inquire about percentages of a number.

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We are mathematicians.

What should we do next in the inquiry?

Discuss in your pair and be ready to share.

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Percentage match

  1. Write the pairs in your book and explain how they are connected.
  2. Make up three more of your own pairs.

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Percentage match

 

 

 

Multiplicative relationships

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Percentage match

 

Make up three more of your own pairs.

Is this one true?

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Reflect on learning

 

Are equations of this type always true?

How do you know?

Convince me.

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Reflect on learning

Explanation

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Lines of inquiry

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In this lesson you will be following a line of inquiry by changing the inquiry prompt.

You will create more examples to decide if a statement is always, sometimes or never true with different numbers.

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Line of inquiry 1

Is the statement true?

What happens if you arrange the 20, 30, and 40 in a different order?

Make up more examples.

Does it always work?

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Line of inquiry 2

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Line of inquiry 3

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Reflect on learning

What did you find out? Get ready to tell the class what you know.

 

Line of inquiry 1

Line of inquiry 2

 

Line of inquiry 3

 

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