ROCKLAND REGIONAL ADULT ROCKLAND REGIONAL ADULT LEARNING CENTER CURRICULUM
21st Century Learning Expectations
The successful RRALC student will:
1. Read critically with understanding.
4. Analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information to solve problems
2. Write with clarity and purpose.
5. Contribute responsibly to the community.
3. Communicates ideas clearly and effectively
through speaking
6. Use and apply technology for communication, collaboration
and innovation.
UNIT 3
Percentages
Name of Unit: General Math - Decimals, Fractions,
Essential Questions
1. What is the difference between a decimal and a whole number?
2. What is a fraction?
3. What does percentage represent?
4. What is the relationship between a decimal, fraction, and percentage?
5. How do I change from one form to another?
6. What does a ratio represent? How do I set up a ratio?
Frameworks Standards
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1.2.1 Change fractions to equivalent fractions with a common denominator
1.3.2 Know that the decimal point separates whole numbers from decimal fractions
1.4.1 Explain percentage as the number of parts in every 100
1.4.2 Describe how 100% is the whole
1.5.1 Explain how fractions, decimals, and percentages are different ways of expressing the same thing
1.5.2 Know that percentages are fractions out of 100
1.5.3 Express decimal fractions in tenths, hundredths, thousandths
2.1.1 Demonstrate conceptual and procedural understanding of operations with decimals, fractions, and integers.
3.1.1 Use strategies to check answers (e.g. approximate calculations using whole numbers)
3.1.2 Know how to align numbers for column addition and subtraction
3.1.3 Explain the placement of the decimal point in multiplying decimals
3.1.4 Explain the placement of the decimal point when dividing decimals
3.2.1 Demonstrate an understanding of a ratio written in the form 3:2
3.2.2 Work out the number of parts in a given ratio, and the value of one part
3.3.1 Change fractions to equivalent fractions for the purpose of adding and subtracting
3.3.2 Find a fraction quotient through multiplication
3.5.1 Demonstrate an understanding of how to use proportion to figure with percentage
6N 3.6.2 Change a fraction to a decimal
6N 3.6.3 Change a percentage to a decimal
Learner Outcomes/Skills
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Students will practice decimal skills using paper and pencil
Students will practice fraction skills using paper and pencil
Students will practice percentage skills using paper and pencil
Students will practice ratio skills using paper and pencil
Students will practice skills used in converting from decimals to fractions to percents
Students will use a calculator to practice decimal, fraction, and percentage skills
Assessments/Activities
● decimal activity sheet
● fraction activity sheet
● percentage activity sheet
● ratio activity sheet
● converting between decimals, fractions, and percentages activity sheet
● exam to assess knowledge
Resources
● Algebra Skills for successful completion of college placement exams by Karen A. Kelley
● various supplementary activity worksheets
● calculators
Projected Length of Unit: 4 classes