Percent Homework

Here is your homework:)

Have a great weekend. Oops do not forget to do your Homework Book pages 36 and 37.



Oh yeah and be sure to be signed up at your class blog. That is all

Finding Percents with a Ratio Table and Decimals

Hi everyone.  Please do not forget that you have;

• Pay it Forward
• Discovery Stations
• Scribe Posts (scribe cycle is finishing on Monday)

Here are some examples of finding percents using ratio tables and decimals.

1/5% of 15




450% of 250



6% of 50 in Tagalog

More Percent Homework

Once again I will ask you to solve you classwork at home.  In tomorrows class we will correct this homework and continue to watch Stolen Childhoods. Do not forget to finish your Pay it Forward Post \and your 2 minutes to make a Difference Gallery Walk.

Here are today's questions. Please solve them 2 different ways.

Tonight you will do your math work for tomorrow:)

Here is a link to get to the Gallery Walk Site for 2 Minutes to make a Difference.

We are going to do some new percent work tonight.  If you use the 100 grid and a ratio table everything will fall into place.... you choose do it your way or a way it will work :p


Here are your 3 questions

 Here is a video of how to find the percent of a number

Exam Review 2010 Percents

Exam Review Percents

Try to do this question 2 different ways. 

Please add your videos to your percent scribes.

In class we have been using ustream to capture movies of your percent work. Please add them to your percent scribes. Here is how you do it. Please go to either

Charbeck

or

spmath at ustream. When you find your video please get the embed code and copy it.

When you are putting the videos at your post please remember to switch to edit html from composer.  You should title your video after you paste it into your post.  Each post should have 2 videos in it.

There is a problem with the code from ustream.  TO MAKE IT WORK YOU HAVE TO ADD SOMETHING TO IT.....
At the end of he code you have pasted into your blog add


This will make the video play in your blog post.

Thanks.  This will be the last blog assignment for the 2nd term.

Combining Percents

Here are the two problems for today...

 

Please make sure to explain each question 2 different ways.  Also you have to complete the following work on your 2minutes project and you need to leave comments behind at our new "sister" blogs in Virden and in Croatia.

Your Percent Post

You need to do all the questions from part A and choose 2 from Part B

Part A

1) 245% of $356.80
2) 68 3/4% of 730
3) 360% of $129.95

Part B

1) The commission for the sale of a house was 6 3/4%. If the house sold for $345 000, how much was the commission. Show your thinking.

2. Table Salt is a chemical compound of sodium and chlorine. recommended daily intake is about 1700 mg. If Canadians consume 182% of this amount on average, how much sodium is one person eating daily?

3)Miguel bought a car for $4700. He made a down payment of 19 1/2%. How much was the down payment?

4)About 5.6% of Canadians have Type 2 Diabetes. If Canada's population is 32 Million, about how many Canadians have this condition?

5) The 4900 seat hockey arenas was 63% full. How many people were at the game?

6) The Nile River is about 209% the length of the Yukon River. If the Yukon River is 3168 km, how long is the Nile river to the Nearest KM? Show your work.

Percent Lesson 1

Here are the instructions



Here are the slides for today's lesson on Percents!! Show the first 3 slides before showing the first movie....

Percent1

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Mr. Percent Does Percent



Complete the rest of the slides. With 5 minutes remaining in class show the second video.


8 % of My Love

Here is a Proportion/Percent Question For You to Answer

Can you answer this question. Leave a comment behind. There is a prize for the first five students that answer this question!!!

A little Percent Work

Calculate the value of the percent or the unit square for the following questions. Show your work 2 different ways.

Percent Questions

What is 35% of 90?

What is 40% of 180?

What is 90% of 320?

What is 65% of 120?

What is 130% of 90?

10% of a number is 35. What is that number?

55% of a number is 60. What is that number?

Twenty-Five acres of land are given to a community and the donor stipulates that 6 acres of this land should be developed as a playground.

What percent of the land is going to be used as a playground?

Use a percent grid to show that 20% of a business’s 240 employees work at night. How many employees work at night?

Your First Growing Post

It is almost time for Winter Break and this is an important computer assignment. It is called a growing post. It is called a growing post because you create one post and add to it everyday. This assignment can be done at the last minute or it can be done a few questions at a time over the two weeks.

Remember you only create one post. You then edit it as you add more information.

Due Date Monday December 18

You must copy the questions into your Growing Post. They should be in a different colour than your responses.

Tools You can make this growing post simple or advanced. For full marks you will have to use Web 2.0 tools to make it more interactive. You can find many web tools at studentblogwikitools.wikispaces.com.

Label Please label your growing post using growingpost, percentage.


Title (Place Name Here) Percentage Growing Post

Question 1
What is a good definition of percent? You should use words symbols, pictures and numerical examples in your definition. (suggestion gliffy is an excellent tool for adding detail to your definition.)

Question 2
How are three fifths (3/5), 3:2, 60% and 0.6 all the same? Use pictures and words to show your answer.

Question 3
Show 3 different ways to find 35% of 80. (bubbleshare is an excellent tool to animate the many different ways of finding these answer).

Question 4
Find a link to blogs that deal with percentages. Leave a comment behind and add the link with a review (What the post was talking about....yes you have to read the post and why others should read the post) Hint In the side bar there are links to other schools. Three of them have done work on percentages!

Question 5
The principal announced that 50% of the children in Ms. Stanzi's class met their reading goal for the month and that 55% of the children in Ms Lowrey's class met their reading goal for the month. Ms Stanzi said that a greater number of her students met their reading goal. Could Ms Stanzi be correct? Why or Why not.

Question 6
Use a hundred grid (unit square) to illustrate the following questions. Once you have explained and illustrated what the question means solve it.

a) 16 is 40% of what number?
b) What is 120% of 30?

This is the end of your first growing post. It is due on Monday December 18. There are late penalties if you do not complete the assignments on time. Late Assignments will be accepted.