Trudy puts 15% of her weekly earnings in a savings account. What is 15% written as a fraction and a decimal?
- What is the problem about?
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Trudy puts 15% of her weekly earnings in a savings account. What is 15% written as a fraction and a decimal?
- What are you trying to find out?
- What information is important?
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Trudy puts 15% of her weekly earnings in a savings account. What is 15% written as a fraction and a decimal?
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- Do you agree with me? Why or why not?
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Trudy puts 15% of her weekly earnings in a savings account. What is 15% written as a fraction and a decimal?
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Picture It
You can use money to represent 15%. Think about each dollar, or 100 cents, that Trudy earns. She will save 15% of each dollar.
Trudy saves 15 cents out of every 100 cents that she earns.
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Model It
You can use a strip diagram.
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- Trudy saves 15%, or 15 cents out of every dollar she earns. How much does she save if she earns $2? $5?
- Trudy earns $12 babysitting. Is the amount she saves greater than or less than $1.50? How do you know?
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How do you write the circled pennies as a fraction of the total pennies?
How do you write the value of the circled pennies with a dollar sign and decimal point?
Look at the second Model It. How does the strip diagram model decimals and percents?
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How do you know where 15% is on the strip diagram?
Write 15% as a decimal.
Describe what the 15 means in 15%, and write the equivalent fraction and decimal.
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Reflect Which models or strategies do you prefer for working with ratios, fractions, decimals, and percents?
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Close: Exit Ticket
Write 3% as a decimal.
Write as a decimal and as a percent.
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Take a moment to think on your own.
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Turn and talk with your partner about . . .
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REPEAT Restate the idea to give everyone a chance to hear it, or hear it again.
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REPHRASE Restate the idea in your own words.
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REWORD Restate the idea using academic or mathematical language.
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RECORD Record ideas using words, numbers or pictures.
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THREE READS
- Read 1: What is the problem about?
- Read 2: What are you trying to find out?
- Read 3: What information is important?
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CO-CRAFT QUESTIONS
- What is the problem about?
- What questions can you ask thatmathematics can answer?
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NOTICE AND WONDER
- What do you notice?
- What do you wonder?
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SAY IT ANOTHER WAY
- How would you say this problem in your own words?
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Trudy puts 15% of her weekly earnings in a savings account. What is 15% written as a fraction and a decimal?
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Trudy puts 15% of her weekly earnings in a savings account. What is 15% written as a fraction and a decimal?
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©Curriculum Associates, LLC Copying is permitted.
Trudy puts 15% of her weekly earnings in a savings account. What is 15% written as a fraction and a decimal?
Math Toolkit grid paper
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©Curriculum Associates, LLC Copying is permitted.
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©Curriculum Associates, LLC Copying is permitted.
Trudy puts 15% of her weekly earnings in a savings account. What is 15% written as a fraction and a decimal?
42
©Curriculum Associates, LLC Copying is permitted.
Picture It
You can use money to represent 15%. Think about each dollar, or 100 cents, that Trudy earns. She will save 15% of each dollar.
Trudy saves 15 cents out of every 100 cents that she earns.
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Model It
You can use a strip diagram.
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How do you write the circled pennies as a fraction of the total pennies?
How do you write the value of the circled pennies with a dollar sign and decimal point?
Look at the second Model It. How does the strip diagram model decimals and percents?
43
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How do you know where 15% is on the strip diagram?
Write 15% as a decimal.
Describe what the 15 means in 15%, and write the equivalent fraction and decimal.
43
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Reflect Which models or strategies do you prefer for working with ratios, fractions, decimals, and percents?
43
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Close: Exit Ticket
Write 3% as a decimal.
Write as a decimal and as a percent.
43
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Take a moment to think on your own.
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Turn and talk with your partner about . . .
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REPEAT Restate the idea to give everyone a chance to hear it, or hear it again.
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REPHRASE Restate the idea in your own words.
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REWORD Restate the idea using academic or mathematical language.
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RECORD Record ideas using words, numbers or pictures.
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THREE READS
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CO-CRAFT QUESTIONS
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NOTICE AND WONDER
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SAY IT ANOTHER WAY
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