Thursday, August 2, 2018

Lesson 2 - GED Math & Science - Working with Percents

Working with Percents

Warm-up Activity -

NOTES


  PRACTICE

SOLVING MULTI-STEP PROBLEMS

 PRACTICE

PERCENT CHANGE

PRACTICE

MORE PRACTICE

 

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Lesson 1 - GED Math & Science - "Ratios & Proportions"

Ratios & Proportions


             Download Warm-up activity by clicking  here           

             Download notes by clicking here

   Ratio Word Problems Practice Worksheet - - - (PDF)

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IMPORTANT CALCULATOR SKILL: Reducing Fractions

     
To view a video of this skill, click here

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 WORKING WITH PROPORTIONS

      Download notes by clicking here

 

 

  Solving Proportion Word Problems Practice Worksheet 1 - - - (PDF)

   Solving Proportion Word Problems Practice Worksheet 2 - - - (PDF)

Pre-Lesson for Returning Students

Paperwork & Ordering Fractions, Decimals & Percents

First day for returning students in my Wilkes-Barre Center GED classes.  We filled-out the following new PY forms.
  • Intake forms
  • Barriers & benefits questionnaire
  • ALTA Contract
  • Emergency Contact forms
  • Goal sheets
  • New daily attendance forms
Math Instruction involved a quick review of working with the GED calculator to solve problems involving fractions, decimals, & percents.  Our culminating skill was being able to compare and order values represented as fractions, decimals & percents.


There may be questions on the GED math test that require you to compare or order numbers in two or three different formats (fraction, decimal or percent). The trick here is to convert them all to decimal  format, then it will be easy to compare them.

If you need to know how to convert between number types, check these links:
Changing Fractions to Decimals
Changing Percents to Decimals


For example, if you were told that Shauna collected 75% of a bucket of strawberries, Jackson collected 4/5 of a bucket and Tina collected 0.3 buckets and that you had to put them in order from least to greatest, how would you solve?
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To be able to compare them, convert all to decimals
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The correct order is
.30, .75, .8
or
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So the answer is:
Tina, Shauna, Jackson

GED Practice Sheet from Class