Fractions, decimals and percentages

Learning Intention: 

Know the equivalent decimals and percentages form of everyday fractions

Diagnostic:

Explanation:

Fractions, decimals, and percentages are different ways to communicate amounts that are between whole numbers

They are equivalent:

Fractions are a way to 'see' parts of a whole number

Tasks:

“There was a pizza party at Elijah’s house. These bits of pizzas were left over: 1 1/4 vegetarian, 3/4 meat lovers, 1 3/4 pepperoni, 1/4 Hawaiian, and 2 1/4 seafood. Altogether, how much pizza was left over?”

In your exercise book, use different colour to represent the different pizza's. One whole pizza = four squares.

Extension: If 20 pizzas were originally ordered, what % were left over?

Activities

Transum Equivalent Fraction pairs

26-Color Pixel Art Template - Google Sheets link. This spreadsheet has a number of activities to make pixel art, then work out fractions of colours in that artwork.

Google Digital Skills lesson on Fractions in Sheets: You input a favourite recipe and use a conversion factor to scale up or down the quanity.