Week Twenty Eight – Ratios and percentages

Goal: Another review week, where we practice what we’ve already learned through problem
solving
Day one – Hot Wheels Parking lot
Goal
- Create visuals to solve a ratio problem
Subordinated Tasks
- Common ratios (denominators)
- Operations practice
Delivery
- Random groups, vertical surfaces

- Use visuals to solve this problem (charts can count as visuals)

Day two – Pancake recipe adjusting
Goal
- Create visuals to solve a ratio problem
Subordinated Tasks
- Common ratios (denominators)
- Operations practice
Delivery
- Random groups, vertical surfaces
o I love pancakes, and my whole family loves them too. Here is my recipe
 1 cup of flour
 1 tbsp of sugar
 1 teaspoon of baking powder
 ½ tspn of baking soda
 ¼ tspn of salt
 1 egg
  1 cup of milk
 2 tbsp coconut oil
o This recipe makes 9 pancakes.
o Everyone in my family eats three pancakes
- How do I adjust the recipe so it feeds my whole family (we don’t mind having leftovers)
- I’m having 7 people over for a pancake party (totally normal thing to do). They will eat
with my family.
o How many pancakes will we need? How do we adjust the recipe for the pancake
party?
Day Three – Percent benchmarks
Goal
- Revisit percent benchmarks for practice
Subordinated tasks
- Operations practice
Delivery
- Random partners, personal whiteboard each
- This is a typical practice day, sheets are cut up so kids can move at their own pace
- Emphasize discussion
Day four – What is a better deal?
Goal
- Real-world(ish) applications of percentages
Subordinated Tasks
- Operations practice
Delivery
- Random groups vertical surfaces
- Question:
o Which is more, 70% of 30, or 30% of 70?
 Would this hold true for other numbers?
o You are going to buy shoes and you see a sale that says, Buy two, third pair is
75% off. You definitely do not need three pairs of shoes, but you hate passing up
a deal, so you get a friend, who does not need shoes but wants to help you out.
You get two pairs and your friend gets one.
 What is a fair way to split the bill so that everyone gets a discount but your
friend does not feel like she just bought you new shoes. ?
Day Five
- Ratio/coin problems again
o We covered this in our first ratio/cycles before Christmas. Return to this problem,
make up some new questions and see how kids have progressed.
 Is anyone using multiplication to solve now (instead of repeated adding?)