LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Goal 1

Number and Operations - The learner will understand and compute with rational numbers.

Objective 1.01

Develop and use ratios, proportions, and percents to solve problems.

Resources aligned to this objective

ACC basketball
The students will use ACC basketball statistics to practice the process of converting fractions to decimals then to percents and will learn how to create and edit a spreadsheet. They will then use this spreadsheet to analyze their data. This unit is done during the basketball season.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Computer Technology Skills and Mathematics)
By Susan Dougherty.
Interdisciplinary Integrated Unit on DNA/Genetics Part B: Math
The second lesson of an interdisciplinary integrated unit on DNA and genetics, focusing on math. The other lessons in the unit focus on science and language arts.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Computer Technology Skills and Mathematics)
By Jane Lentz, Jimmy White, Marlene Smith, and and Tori Goldrick.
Life's percents
Students will gather data from their own lives to use in calculating percents. They will measure parts of their bodies (head, leg, neck, etc.), complete a class survey that asks information about themselves, and use a pay stub to find percentages of deductions.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)
By Karen Mcpherson.
Percent of a number
In this lesson for grade seven, students will act as fair planners ordering food for the Dixie Classic Fair. Students will calculate percentages to determine how much food to order.
Format: (grade 7 Mathematics)
By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.
Percent problem solving
Students apply their knowledge of fractions, decimals, and percents to understand the relationship amongst the three. Students will solve basic percent number problems using the percent proportion or other methods and play a game using a resource of the Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. Permission has been granted to use the materials as part of the Interactivate Your Bored Math Students workshop. Students will also analyze and explain the results of their game by answering two exploration questions.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)
By Victoria Lunetta.
Post-EOG activities: Student products
In this project, students will become entrepreneurs. They will have a business that makes items with 3-dimensional shapes. They will receive various tasks that will require that they make decisions as any other business owner would have to do.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
By Geneva Williams.
Savor the rainbow
Use skittles to help the students practice the concepts of sorting data, recording data, writing the data collected in fraction form (part/whole), changing the fractions into decimals and percents, and taking the data collected and making a spreadsheet, bar graph, and circle graph of the data.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
By Beverly Revis.
Scale drawings
In this lesson for grade seven, students will use maps to measure the distances between cities in North Carolina. Students will write equations using the maps' scales to calculate the actual distances in miles.
Format: (grade 7 Mathematics)
By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.
Simple interest
In this lesson for grade seven, students learn how to calculate simple interest, and research careers in which people need to understand simple interest.
Format: (grade 7 Mathematics)
By Tammie J. Dawkins-Smith and Cynthia Russell.
Trashketball review for ratios, fractions, decimals and percents.
This lesson will help the students with changing from ratios to fractions, fractions to decimals, and decimals to percents.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
By David Crumm.
Zoo integrated unit
The unit uses the North Carolina Zoological Park as a teaching tool rather than as a nice place to visit. It can be used by a single teacher or multiple teachers of different subjects, and it is aimed at 7th and 8th graders.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts, Social Studies, Mathematics, and Science)
By Craig Smith.

Lesson plans on the web

Grid and Percent It
Students solve various types of percent problems using a 10 x 10 grid, a common model for visualizing percents. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Mathematics at the mall: Unit overview
Students participate in activities in which they develop number sense in and around the shopping mall. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 4–8 Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Q T Pi Fashions - Learning About Credit Card Use
Students learn the joys and dangers of using credit as they help Credita, the main character in this activity, solve her credit problems. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics)
Provider: National Council on Economic Education
Real Estate Tycoon
Students design, “build,” and “sell” a house and then simulate investment of the profits in the stock market. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Shops at the Mall
Students develop number sense in and around the shopping mall. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Understanding Rational Numbers and Proportions
Students use real-world models to develop an understanding of fractions, decimals, unit rates, proportions, and problem solving. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 5–7 Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics