Description
What our Compare Fractions, Percentages, and Decimals lesson plan includes
Lesson Objectives and Overview: Compare Fractions, Percentages, and Decimals provides a straightforward guide for students to learn and understand how to compare expressions that look different but have the same value. They will use <, >, and = to make comparisons between equivalent percentages, fractions, and decimals. This lesson is for students in 6th grade.
Classroom Procedure
Every lesson plan provides you with a classroom procedure page that outlines a step-by-step guide to follow. You do not have to follow the guide exactly. The guide helps you organize the lesson and details when to hand out worksheets. It also lists information in the yellow box that you might find useful. You will find the lesson objectives, state standards, and number of class sessions the lesson should take to complete in this area. In addition, it describes the supplies you will need as well as what and how you need to prepare beforehand.
Options for Lesson
In the “Options for Lesson” section of the classroom procedure page, you will see some suggestions for additional activities or ideas to add to the lesson if you want to. For advanced students, begin to add decimals to the comparisons as well. Instead of using the cards for a game of war, have students line up based on a single card they are given as a class from least to greatest. Then shuffle the cards, hand them out again, and have students line up from greatest to least.
Teacher Notes
The paragraph on this page gives you a little more information on the lesson overall and describes what you may want to focus your teaching on. The blank lines are available for you to write out any thoughts or ideas you have as you prepare.
COMPARE FRACTIONS, PERCENTAGES, AND DECIMALS LESSON PLAN CONTENT PAGES
The Compare Fractions, Percentages, and Decimals lesson includes two content pages. Have you ever looked at a fraction or a percentage and thought, “How do I know which one is bigger?” It’s confusing because they’re written in different forms. It’s kind of like this: Imagine one number is speaking English and the other is speaking Japanese. They can’t understand each other unless they both speak the same language!
To compare numbers clearly, we need to put them in the same form, or language, and that form is decimals! Decimals are a common form of numbers that are easy to compare. Once all numbers are in decimal form, it’s simple to tell which one is greater than, less than, or equal to the other. You can convert everything to fractions or percentages, but that can be tricky and time-consuming. Decimals will always save the day!
The lesson then describes how to convert a fraction into a decimal. At the bottom of the page, students will then learn two ways to convert a percentage to a decimal. One way is to divide by 100. The other is to move the decimal. There are several examples that students can review for each of these conversion expressions.
COMPARE FRACTIONS, PERCENTAGES, AND DECIMALS LESSON PLAN WORKSHEETS
The Compare Fractions, Percentages, and Decimals lesson plan includes three worksheets: an activity worksheet, a practice worksheet, and a homework assignment. Each one will help students solidify their grasp of the material they learned throughout the lesson. You can refer to the classroom procedure guidelines to know when to hand out each worksheet.
CARD WAR ACTIVITY WORKSHEET
For the activity, students will work with a partner and play a game of war. Each with a deck that contains the same number of cards, each pair of students will flip over the top card at the same time. The student with the higher number wins both cards. Students will write their numbers in the columns on the worksheet page. After 10 rounds, the player with the most cards at the end wins the game.
SPORTS SURVEY PRACTICE WORKSHEET
The practice worksheet requires students to solve a real-world survey example. In the scenario, the school took a survey of different activities students wanted to do in gym class. After reviewing the chart with the percentages and fractions, students will answer the questions at the bottom of the page.
COMPARE FRACTIONS, PERCENTAGES, AND DECIMALS HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
Students will practice what they learned during the homework assignment. They will answer a series of 14 problems using <, >, or = to compare the numbers in each box.
Worksheet Answer Keys
There are answer keys at the end of the lesson plan document for the practice and homework worksheets. Correct answers are in red to make it easy to compare them with your students’ responses. If you choose to administer the lesson pages to your students via PDF, you will need to save a new file that omits these pages. Otherwise, you can simply print out the applicable pages and keep these as reference for yourself when grading assignments.
