Understanding By Design Unit Template

Title of Unit
Curriculum Area
Developed By

BRITTANY BLASKA

Percents
Grade Level
7th grade
MATH 7
Time Frame
Brittany Blaska
Identify Desired Results (Stage 1)

20 days

Content Standards
Common Core Standards Addressed:
CCSS Grade 6: Ratios and Proportional Relationships
6.RP.3c (REVIEW): Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100.
CCSS Grade 7: Expressions and Equations
7.EE.3: Solve multi-step real-life and mathematical problems posed with positive and negative rational numbers in any form (whole numbers, fractions, and
decimals), using tools strategically. Apply properties of operations to calculate with numbers in any form; convert between forms as appropriate; and assess the
reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies.
CCSS Grade 7:Ratios and Proportional Relationships
7.RP.3: Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems.
Standards of Mathematical Practice Addressed:
MP2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
MP3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
MP4: Model with mathematics.
MP5: Use appropriate tools strategically.
MP6: Attend to precision.
MP8: Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Understandings
Overarching Understanding
Students will be able to solve real life situations
by converting between forms such as percents,
fractions, and decimals.

Related Misconceptions

Essential Questions

Overarching
How does this chapter relate to previous chapters we have
discussed?
How does this material relate to my daily life?
How can represent this problem to make it easier to solve?
How can I communicate this material to others to the point
where they understand it?

Topical
When will I use percents,
fractions, and decimals in real
life?
When ordering different forms,
what can I do to make this
easier for me to understand?

Students tend to remove the percent symbol and

leave the decimal when a percent is less than
one. (0.5% does not equal 0.5)
Students may have a hard time converting a
fraction to a decimal.
Students may forget that the decimal answer to
the division problem needs to be rewritten as a
percent.
Students may simply divide the two numbers
when you are trying to find how much of a
value a certain percent is. (39 is 52% of what
number?)
Students may confuse a discounted sale price as
the original price when finding percent decrease
and percent increase.
Students may write the proportions with the
denominator on top of the numerator so they
need to switch it with the 100 in the
denominator.

How can I represent this number in another form and how will
that help me solve this problem?

If a decimal is greater than 1,

what does that mean if the
percent form?
Where can I use percents of
increase and decrease in real
life?

Objectives
Knowledge
Students will know

Students will know that to compare

numbers they need to first convert them
to the same form (percent, decimal, or
fraction).
Students will know the percent
equation.
Students will know the simple interest
formula

Skills
Students will be able to

Convert a percentage into a decimal and vice versa.

Compare and order fractions, decimals, and percents.
Use the percent proportion to find parts, wholes, and percents.
Use the percent equation to find parts, wholes, and percents.
Find percents of increase and decrease.
Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems.
Use the percent of change formula to solve problems.
Use percent of discounts and mark ups to find prices of items.
Use the simplest interest formula to find interest earned or paid, annual interest rates, and amounts
paid on loans.
Solve real life problems dealing with percents and decimals.
Assessment Evidence (Stage 2)

Performance Task Description

Goal To assess students understanding on percents; converting between different forms of percents, decimals, and fractions; the

Role
Audience
Situation
Product/Performance

Standards

ability to use proportions, the percent proportion, and the percent equation to find parts, wholes, and percents of quantities;
the ability to find percents of increase and decrease, interest paid or earned; and lastly, the ability to solve real life
problems dealing with percents and decimals.
End-of-Unit test
Myself and mentor teacher, Mark Martin
Classroom test, end of unit; during regular class period. The test will include 28 questions. They will be completing these
individually and be allowed to use a calculator on majority of the problems. Students will be seated arms length from their
neighboring classmates.
Completed Test Students will be able to answer all of the questions on the test and show all of their work to receive as
many points as they can. They will be able to complete the different tasks that the test covers.
6.RP.3c: Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100.
7.EE.3: Solve multi-step real-life and mathematical problems posed with positive and negative rational numbers in any
form (whole numbers, fractions, and decimals), using tools strategically. Apply properties of operations to calculate with
numbers in any form; convert between forms as appropriate; and assess the reasonableness of answers using mental
computation and estimation strategies.
7.RP.3: Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems.

Other Evidence
They will be given a chapter quiz after the first four sections of the unit. So the quiz will be covering converting forms, ordering different forms from least to
greatest, the percent proportion, and lastly the percent equation.
We will be using Plickers at the start of each day as a warm up before we head into the new material. Students will answer two to three questions from the
previous days material and we can see the results immediately. I can see the percent correct for the entire class and also see individual results so I can know who
is having a difficult time grasping the material.

Learning Plan (Stage 3)

Day in Unit

DATE

Lesson Topic

Lesson Learning Objective

1/23/15

REVIEW Converting
between
percents and
fractions.

Write a percent as a fraction

Write fractions and mixed
numbers as percents.

1/26/15

Converting
between
percents and
decimals.

Write percents as decimals

and vice versa.
Model percents using a
10x10 grid
Discover that we move the
decimal two places right or
left depending on the type of
conversion we are doing

1/27/15

Converting
between
percents and
decimals.

Write percents as decimals

and vice versa.
Understand why we move
the decimal two place values
right or left depending on the
conversion we are doing
Use what we have learned
from last chapter to solve
these percent problems
Use cross multiplication or
find equivalent fractions with
100 in the denominator to
find the percent.
Relate percents and decimals

Description of how lesson

contributes to unit-level
objectives
This lesson is a review of what they
learned from sixth grade and
converting between different forms
of a number. We are going over this
to see what the students already
know and this gives me a good idea
of where we can start with this unit.
Today we are beginning the unit
with section 6.1. This is where we
discover the process of converting
between percents and decimals. We
will be using a model of a 10x10
grid to represent 100%. It is great
for the visual learners to see where
we get percents from in respect to
the grid. Students will then work on
the practice on their own or with
their partner and I will collect them
the following day.
This bookwork will give students a
chance to gain a better procedural
understanding of converting
between percents and decimals.
These problems also show students
how prevalent percents and
decimals are in everyday life.

Assessment activities
6.0 Journal pg. 111-112
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6.1 Journal pg. 113-116

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6.1 Notes and 6.1 Book pg. 218-219:

1-49 odd
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1/28/15

1/29/15

1/30/15

2/02/15

Comparing and
ordering
fractions,
decimals, and
percents.

Comparing and
ordering
fractions,
decimals, and
percents.

Comparing and
ordering
fractions,
decimals, and
percents.

The percent
proportion

to real life problems.

Compare and order fractions,
decimals, and percents from
least to greatest.
Solve real life problems.
Model the values in correct
order on a number line to
represent the conversion they
made.

Compare and order fractions,

decimals, and percents from
least to greatest.
Solve real life problems.
Create and plot points on a
number line in the correct
order.

Compare and order fractions,

decimals, and percents from
least to greatest.
Solve real life problems.
Plot points on a number line
correctly.

Use a model to estimate

percent questions
Create a proportion that helps

These journal pages are giving

students examples of where they
may have seen or heard of decimals
or percents being used in everyday
life. Students are asked which form
is more common in their own real
life experiences and which one is
greater. This forces students to
make the conversion that we
learned yesterday in order to
compare the two values.
This bookwork is another great way
for students to gain a better
procedural understanding of
ordering numbers of different
forms. It is requiring students to
make the conversion of different
forms to a common form and then
use their number sense in order to
number the values from least to
greatest. It also gives students real
life examples where they will be
using percents and decimals.
These worksheets require students
to converting fractions, percents,
and decimals in order to compare
them to one another. It asks them to
identify which value is the greatest
so they will need to take what they
learned last year and a few days ago
in order to complete these tasks.
These worksheets also require
students to critique other students
work and identify where they made
an error.
These journal pages give students
an exploration of finding the
percent that a number is of a value.

6.2 Journal pg. 117-120

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6.2 Book pg. 224-225:1-35 odd

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6.2 Puzzle Worksheet

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6.3 Journal pg. 121-124

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them find a percent

2/03/15

The percent
proportion

2/04/15

The percent
equation

10

2/05/15

The percent
equation

11

2/06/15

ASSESSMENT

Use a model to estimate

percent questions
Create a proportion that helps
them find a percent

Use an equivalent form of the

percent proportion to solve a
percent problem
Use the percent equation to
find parts, wholes, and
percents.
Solve real life problems.

Use an equivalent form of the

percent proportion to solve a
percent problem
Use the percent equation to
find parts, wholes, and
percents.
Solve real life problems.
Write the percent as a
decimal and vice versa
Compare numbers and tell
which one is greater
Order numbers of different
forms on a number line
correctly

For example, what is 12% of 25?

Students will discover that an easy
tool to solve these types of
problems is the percent proportion.
This is also a great way to make
connections to last chapter.
This bookwork will highlight that a
percent is part of a whole. They will
use this understanding to create a
proportion to solve problems. They
will be thinking in terms of a is a
p percent of w. Students will gain a
better procedural understanding by
doing this assignment.
This journal shows students a
variety of models to that they may
use to help them solve percent
problems. Students will then use
this equation to solve problems
such as, What number is 35% of
80? This will lead into our
bookwork tomorrow where students
will gain a better procedural
understanding using these methods.
Students will use an equation to
find a as p percent of w. The
equation is a = p * w. Students will
need to figure out what the problem
is asking them to find to figure out
where to plug in the values that
they are given.
This assessment is to see how well
students have understood the
material of this chapter up to this
point. There is a practice book quiz
which is a good study tool for
students to use as a resource.

6.3 Notes
6.3 Book pg. 230-231:1-35 odd
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6.4 Journal pg. 125-128

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6.4 Book pg. 236-237:1-35 odd

Pg. 239: 1-20 ALL
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Ch. 6 QUIZ
PLICKER

Use the percent proportion to

solve problems
Use the percent equation to
solve problems
Solve real life problems
Find percents of increase
Find percents of decrease

12

2/09/15

Percents of
increase and
decrease

13

2/10/15

Percents of
increase and
decrease

Find percents of increase

Find percents of decrease

14

2/11/15

Discounts and
Mark ups

Use percents of discounts to

find prices of items
Use percent of markups to
find selling prices of items.

15

2/12/15

Discounts and
Mark ups

Use percents of discounts to

find prices of items
Use percent of markups to
find selling prices of items.

These journal pages are a great way

for students to explore the topics of
percent increase and percent
decrease. These are both topics of
percent of change. Students will see
how much the data shows an
increase or a decrease. This will
relate to our discussions tomorrow
about percent of change.
Today we are going over notes and
the bookwork to make sure that
students have a good understanding
of percent of change. The notes will
include the definition, formulas,
and examples of each percent of
increase and percent of decrease.
Then students will do a variety of
problems to gain a better
understanding of the material.
This journal is something that
students can relate to. It is shopping
basically. So we will use items and
talk about how stores make money
by marking up the prices to make a
profit. Then the journal will explore
how to find the percent of mark ups
and discounts of items that you may
buy. This is a very relatable lesson
for the students to understand.
We will begin by taking some
notes, very brief, about the
difference between discount and
mark up and why they exist in the
world. Then we will start the

6.5 Journal pg. 129-132

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6.5 Notes
6.5 Book pg. 244-245:1-35 odd
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6.6 Journal pg. 133-136

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6.6 Notes (short)

6.6 Book pg. 250-251:1-29 odd
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2/13/15

Simple interest

Use simple interest formula

to find interest earned or
paid, annual interest rates,
and amounts paid on loans.

17

2/20/15

Simple Interest

Use simple interest formula

to find interest earned or
paid, annual interest rates,
and amounts paid on loans.

18

2/23/15

Simple Interest

Use simple interest formula

to find interest earned or
paid, annual interest rates,
and amounts paid on loans.

19

2/24/15

REVIEW FOR
ASSESSMENT

THIS REVIEW WILL INCLUDE

ALL OF THE OBJECTIVES OF
THIS UNIT< BOTH
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

bookwork to gain a better

understanding and also practice
using these skill sin the real world.
These journal pages give students
the simple interest formula. Then
they will be given different
scenarios that they need to use this
formula in order to solve how much
money there will be in a given
amount of time, whether that
money is owed or earned.
Today we will be completing brief
notes to describe the formula and
the terms that we usually see in
these types of problems. I have a lot
of English language learners so I
feel it is important to help them
understand the terminology. Next
we will be working on the
bookwork. This is also something
very relatable to the students
because one day they may be
paying bills or needing loans for
life expenses.
This puzzle worksheet is to give
students some extra practice. When
talking with my mentor he said that
the students struggled with this
section so I feel it is important to
give them another day of learning
the material.
We will be working on the review
for this unit for the entire hour. I
will assign the book quiz 2 and
practice book test for students to
complete as study materials. My
students do not study enough so I
need to assign these for homework.
During the hour we will be doing

6.7 Journal Pg. 137-140

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6.7 Notes
6.7 Book pg. 256-257:1-41 odd
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6.7 Puzzle Worksheet

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Ch. 6 Test Review

Practice book quiz 2
Practice book test
Review Activity (during class)

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2/25/15

ASSESSMENT

ALL OF THE OBJECTIVES OF

THIS UNIT< BOTH
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

some type of review activity to help

clear up any misconceptions that
the students may have at this point.
The answer to the book quiz 2 and
book practice test will be online for
them to check their answers.
This assessment will contain 28
questions that all reflect one of the
objectives of this unit. It is a
mixture of calculational problems
and conceptual problems that
require students to push their
thinking to the next level. It
includes about 5 story problems.
The grades that students receive
will give me an idea how well they
understood this unit about percents.

Ch. 6 Test