Teamwork Makes the Dream Work.

Name:

City:

Day 3: Representing Data with

Percents!
Do Now!
A cookie jar has 6 sugar cookies, 8 oatmeal cookies, and 12 chocolate chip cookies.
Part A Write a ratio (in lowest terms) to represent each of the following:

sugar : oatmeal chocolate: oatmeal

Part B Write a fraction (in lowest terms) that quantitatively represents what portion each type of
cookie is of the total.

sugar = oatmeal = chocolate chip =

Part C Identify if each statement below if qualitative or quantitative.

1. The cookie has 220 calories and 3 g of fat. 2. The cookie is soft.

STOP HERE! STOP HERE! STOP HERE! STOP HERE!

Review of Percents.

Percent literally means .

To convert any fraction into a percent I can use a of the form below:

Then I can - and use operations to

solve (and the help of a calculator.

Ex. Our school, I.S. 98 has a total of 581 kids on the attendance rosters. 192 kids are in AVML,
186 in Sci-Tech, and 203 kids in the Exploratory Academy.

% in AVML % in Sci-Tech % Exploratory

Math Rocks!
Miss Nair, I.S. 98
M&M Fact of the Day: M&M candies were first manufactured in 1940 by a man named Forrest
E. Mars!
M&Ms are 68 years olds!
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work. Name:

Using Percents to Analyze my

Bag!
1. Send your MATERIALS ENGINEER to get your city bag.

2. Have your TECHNOLOGY MANAGER get each city council member 1 calculator.

3. All city council members should take their M&M bag data (Day 1).

Answer This: Determine the percentage of each color that was in your bag (from Day 1). You
may use your calculator, but I expect to see ALL of your proportions and cross-multiplication
below!

Blue = Red =

Brown = Orange =

Green = Yellow =

Fill in the blanks.

- M&Ms make up the largest portion of our bag.

- M&Ms make up the smallest portion of our bag.

Have an Opinion: Do you like the color distribution of your bag? Why or why not?

Math Rocks!
Miss Nair, I.S. 98
M&M Fact of the Day: M&M candies were first manufactured in 1940 by a man named Forrest
E. Mars!
M&Ms are 68 years olds!
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work. Name:

Using Percents to Make Bag-to-

Bag Comparisons!
4. All city council members should take out the data for the neighbor city’s bag from Day 2.

Answer This: Determine the percentage of each color that was in the neighbor city’s bag (from
Day 2). You may use your calculator, but I expect to see ALL of your proportions and cross-
multiplication below!
Neighbor City Name:

Blue = Red =

Brown = Orange =

Green = Yellow =

Answer This.

- What is one similarity between this city’s bag and your bag?

- What is one difference between this city’s bag and your bag?

Math Rocks!
Miss Nair, I.S. 98
M&M Fact of the Day: M&M candies were first manufactured in 1940 by a man named Forrest
E. Mars!
M&Ms are 68 years olds!
 Teamwork Makes the Dream Work. Name:

5. Send your TECHNOLOGY MANAGER to get 2 laptops for your city (1 for every 2 people).

6. Send your CITY AMBASSADOR to one other city (a city you haven’t visited yet!) and record
the data in the table on the backside of this sheet. Share the data with your city members.

7. Choose a partner in your city. Decide which one of you will use the laptop first and which one
of you will complete the backside of this worksheet first. If you are completing the worksheet
first, go to #9. If you are using the computers first, see #8.
8. If you are using the laptops first, go to www.wikispaces.com and sign in. Click on the page
entitled Percents. READ over the page to find the question and learn how it will be graded.
Then click on the discussion tab and enter in your response. Remember to use R.A.S.T.P. You
will be limited to 10 minutes! The MAYOR should keep time.

City Blue Brown Green Orange Red Yellow

9. Independent Work. Complete the questions below to the best of your ability.

Consider the data your city ambassador just collected above. Determine the percentage of each
color that is in this city’s bag. You may use your calculator, but I expect to see ALL of your
proportions and cross-multiplication below!

Neighbor City Name:

Blue = Red =

Brown = Orange =

Green = Yellow =

10. Compare and Contrast. Fill out the Venn Diagram below to compare and contrast any two
bags for which you have data. similarities

Math Rocks!
Miss Nair, I.S. 98
M&M Fact of the Day: M&M candies were first manufactured in 1940 by a man named Forrest
E. Mars!
M&Ms are 68 years olds!
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work. Name:

city city

differences differences

Math Rocks!
Miss Nair, I.S. 98
M&M Fact of the Day: M&M candies were first manufactured in 1940 by a man named Forrest
E. Mars!
M&Ms are 68 years olds!