Percentage

This unit is about percentage and how to calculate it. We will also be focusing on a Practice National Test and a real national test!

Lesson Content

• We will use our Scott Foresman books

• We will use practice national test materials from the School Authority.

• We will work individually, but of course you can help each other.

 

Goals

• Prepare for the National Test

• Understand what percentage is and how to calculate it

• Understand how percentage, decimals and fractions are connected.

• Work on explaining our thinking in maths

• Understand how to use fractions, decimals and percentages to calculate fractions, decimals and percentage

• Understand how to calculate the percentage of a number

 

Links 

NOMP

Khan Academy

Skolverket

 

How Will I Be Graded?

• Work during lessons

• Your National Test scores

• Budget Project

Läroplanskopplingar

Centralt innehåll

• Tal i procentform och deras samband med tal i bråk- och decimalform.
• Hur tal i bråk- och decimalform kan användas i vardagliga situationer.
• Metoder för beräkningar med naturliga tal och enkla tal i bråk- och decimalform vid överslagsräkning, huvudräkning och skriftlig beräkning. Användning av digitala verktyg vid beräkningar.
• Proportionalitet samt hur proportionella samband uttrycks i bråk-, decimal- och procentform.
• Strategier för att lösa matematiska problem i elevnära situationer.
• Formulering av matematiska frågeställningar utifrån vardagliga situationer.

Uppgifter

Practice National Test

Dates:

Friday March 26

Monday March 29

Tuesday March 30

Wednesday March 31

National Test

Dates:

Friday April 23

Monday April 26

Tuesday April 27

Friday April 30

Budget Project

Your task is to create a budget for your future career.

You need to:

1. Decide what your future job is.
2. Go to https://statsskuld.se/jobb/lonestatistik and see what your average salary will be.
3. Calculate your yearly salary.
4. You need to calculate your tax rate. It is 32% of your salary. If you make over 523,200 SEK a year, you need to take another 20%.

1. Decide what you need to spend your money on.
2. https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Stockholm can help you figure out just how expensive items are.
3. Calculate what you need to spend your money.
4. Calculate the percentage of your expenses compared to your income.
5. Remember to save money, try to save 10 percent.

You can do all your work in your notebook, but you need to turn in clean and tidy pages to me.

What do I need to turn in?

1. A table of statistics. Paper.
2. A circle graph of your income. Paper.
3. A paragraph (or 2) explaining the how and why of how you spend your money. This can be on Word.
4. All of your calculations on paper.