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The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to different ways they may work with percentages in the healthcare field and give them the opportunity to practice these applications.
At the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
Interpret key words for solving problems
Correctly find missing percent, parts, and wholes of a percent problem
Explain some of the applications of percentages in the health field
Student Target
I can use percentages to solve real-word problems.
CCR Focus Standards
Number and Ratios - Level D
Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/100 times the quantity); solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent.
Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems. Examples: simple interest, tax, markups and markdowns, gratuities and commissions, fees, percent increase and decrease, percent error. (Also see 7.G.1 and G.MG.2)
Supporting Standards
Understand the concept of a ratio and use ratio language to describe a ratio relationship between two quantities. For example, "The ratio of wings to beaks in the bird house at the zoo was 2:1, because for every 2 wings there was 1 beak." "For every vote candidate A received, candidate C received nearly three votes."
Standards for Mathematical Practice
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. (MP.1)
Reason abstractly and quantitatively. (MP.2)
KYAE Employability Standards
E.6 Identify and effectively use skills and materials needed for a particular task.
E.7 Accurately analyze information and respond appropriately.
E.9 Analyze self-performance to better understand strengths and areas for improvement.
