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Dana's House Lesson PlanDana's House Lesson Plan
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Illustrative Mathematics
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5th - 7th
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Dana's House

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Your class is to find the percent of the lot that is not covered by a house. Make sure your pupils understand the problems before they begin. The lot is the whole of the percent problem and the house is the part. The exercise is good practice for converting square yards to square feet.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

unit conversion, percents, ratios

Additional Tags

unit conversion, percent, ratio, math

Pros

  • Uses ratios to convert real-world measurement units
  • Fnds percent of a quantity

Cons

  • Careful reading of problem is needed to understand the desired outcome

Common Core

6.RP.A.3.a 6.RP.A.3.c 6.RP.A.3.d

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