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?

To be able to compare them, convert all to decimals

The correct order is
.30, .75, .8
or

So the answer is:
Tina, Shauna, Jackson

GED Practice Sheet from Class