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What do you do when your students ask, "When are we ever going to use this?"
The purpose of Practical Percent Activities is to help you answer that important question for your students in grades 5-8. This books is filled with more than 80 games and activities that reinforce percent skills and illustrate for students real-world examples. Add to this some bulletin board ideas and a section on suggested answers and comments and you have a great math learning value. Whether you choose the hardcopy or the ebook, it's a book that will become one of your "go-to" math activity books for years to come.
Percent is an important aspect of mathematics that often receives minimal attention in students’ textbooks. Many authors and publishers are acutely aware of this problem, but are forced to comply with customer preferences and economic constraints in creating their products. The unfortunate result is that student achievement in the percent area is often lacking. Many teachers have identified percent as one of the hard spots to teach in the math curriculum.
The purpose of this book is to address this issue by providing a resource book of activities, games, models, and bulletin board ideas dedicated to the topic of percent. This book is designed to be a supplement to the standard textbook. Some of the activities are designed to be used as blackline masters. Others, such as the group problems, are useful as transparency masters, or may be downloaded in PDF form to be used on IWB at www.iplaymathgames.com. Several of the masters are generic so they can be adapted to local situations or current events by teachers, parents and students. The materials are organized in the traditional sequence, but it is assumed that not every activity will be used by any given group.
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This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 21 August, 2010.
