Mr. Appledorf's On-Line PowerPoint Math Lessons
Percent
Objectives:
Students will explain how ratios, fractions, decimals, and percents are related, how to convert between them, and how to use percent. Students will perform calculations involving profit, sale price, and tax as an exercise.
NCTM Standards:
Students recognize and use connections among mathematical ideas; understand how mathematical ideas interconnect and build on one another to produce a coherent whole; recognize and apply mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics.
Slides:
* Percent Defined
* Why Per Hundred?
* The Long Answer
* Percent as a Decimal
* Ratio, Fraction, Decimal, Percent
* What Percent?
* Percent Difference
* Profit
* Discount
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