Lesson Plans

Lesson Plan 1:
Target Audience:
Students ranging from 7th to 8th grade.
Overall Goal of the Lesson:
The overall goal of the lesson is to have students learn more about computation, percents, and representing them as decimal numbers. Fluency in computation is essential. They use percentages to calculate simple and compound interest. They also use mental arithmetic to compute with fractions, decimals, powers, and percentages.
Student Learning Objectives
Solve problems with percent of increase or decrease.
Rewrite fractions, decimals, and percents.
Assessment:
The students can be asked how do they prefer to spend their time? They will be given five options to pick from. Once you are done recording the survey, you can record the data by making a circle graph, with each part being a percent of the data. The sum of the percents must equal 100% because the circle graph represents all of the data. Some studentsd may already have some understanding of percents. Have them discuss what they already know about percents.
Indiana Content Standards Addressed:
7.2.2 Calculate the percentage increase and decrease of the quantity.
8.1.1 Read, write, compare, and solve problems using decimals in scientific notation.
8.2.4 Use mental arithmetic to compute with common fractions, decimals, powers, and percents.

Lesson Plan 2:
Target Audience:
Algebra 1 students that range from 7th to 8th grade students.
Overall Goal of the Lesson:
The goal of this lesson is to apply percent problems to real world situations such as finding the sale price of a pair of jeans.
Student Learning Objectives:
Solving percent application problems.
Assessment:
A worksheet will be given to the class in order to see if they understood and met the learning objectives. This worksheet will consist of questions that consist of successive discounts, which are used by retailers to make their discounts seem bigger. Will have students work a few more examples of applying one discount after another to show that the net discount rate is always smaller than the sum of the separate discount rates.
Indiana Content Standards:
8.2.1 Add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational numbers (integers, fractions, and termininating decimals) in multi-step problems.
8.7.1 Analyze problems by identifying relationships, telling relevant from irrelevant information, identifying missing information, sequencing and prioritizing, and observing patterns.

Lesson Plan 3
Target Audience:
Students in Algebra 1 ranging from 7th to 8th grade.
Overall Goal of Lesson:
Students will be expected to know what all different type of angles are and their properties. If we have two angles on a line, and one angle measurement is given, students should know how to solve for the other unknown angle.
Student Learning Objectives:
Solve equations to find angle measurements.
Assessment:
Students will be introduced to this by going back to the methods in which they used to solve equations to find the value of a variable. They will use this when they have to find the measurement of a certain angle on a given straight angle.
Indiana Content Standards:
8.4.1 Identify and describe basic properties of geometric shapes: altitudes, diagonals, angle and perpendicular bisectors, central angles, radii, diameters, and chords.