Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Math 6 (Class 167)
Lesson Title
Investigation 2: More About Percents
Overview
In today’s class students continue to develop their ability to work with percents.
Textbook Sections
Problem 2.2 (Txt. p.19) Finding a General Strategy
Vocabulary
tiling
regular polygon
polygon
pentagon
hexagon
octagon
angle ruler
precisely
vertex
Key Attitudes
Willingness to work as a group to help meet individual and group goals.
Enduring Understandings
Changes in various parameters have specific effects on graphs of parent functions in the coordinate plane.
Essential Question
What makes an estimate reasonable?
What makes an answer exact?
What makes a strategy both effective and efficient?
Key Knowledge
A sale price can be expressed as a percent discount.
Some fractions can be represented by terminating decimals and some can not.
Key Skills
I can determine what percentage a given fraction represents.
I can develop a general strategy for finding percentages.
Turn-In (#-1)
No Homework
Handouts
No Handouts Posted
Assignment
ACE p.24 #12, 14
Disclaimer- The assignment as stated in class is the official assignment. Every effort is made to keep this posting accurate, but you should refer to what was stated in class as the final word.
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