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Percents and Equivalent Fractions

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Percents and Equivalent Fractions
9 min6thMath
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Summary

Math Antics connects percents to equivalent fractions and decimals. A clear, animated 9-minute lesson you can drop straight into a grade 6 math block -- pause-friendly, with worked examples on screen.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

A few questions to talk through after watching “Percents and Equivalent Fractions.”

  1. How do you write a percent as a fraction over 100?
  2. How do you simplify that fraction?
  3. How are percents, fractions and decimals three views of one number?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: percent, equivalent fraction, decimal, simplify, hundredths.

Try it: Write 40% as a simplified fraction and a decimal.