This hands on activity allows students to explore the relationship between ratios and what the difference between part to whole, part to part, and making predictions by using colorful candy like M&Ms, skittles, Sweet Tarts, etc.
This foldable designed to go into an Interactive Notebook has a purpose to train the students in the order of operations. High School teachers have asked that we change the acronym of PEMDAS to GEMDAS. Where the G is for grouping symbols.
In this graphic organizer, the student will fill in the areas for the part to total and use the "1" to see that in order to find the %, you can multiply the top and bottom of the ratio by "1" to get the percent. Laminate so the students can use it over and over with dry erase markers.