November 17, 2015

90 minutes

Lesson Length:

Preparation

a Lesson Aim:
Students will do a review on what they have learned about tax, tips, and
discounts. We will learn about mark ups, and then move on to learning about
percent of change. Students will take notes on the topic, and then begin
doing guided practice.
b Student Learning Objective:
In preparation for SOL 8.3a, students will solve practical problems involving
rational numbers, percent, ratios, and proportions including similar figures
and scale drawings.
c Introduction:
Students will do some warm up problems where they will find tax, tips, and
discounts as well as the final total after adding or subtracting problems to
their subtotals. Students will then talk about mark ups, and practice finding
the mark up price of an item.
d Review:
Students will review what they know about tax, tips, and discounts. Students
will determine the difference between subtotal and total. Students will also
distinguish when the percent should be added to the total, as well as when
the percent should be subtracted.
e Lesson Content:
Students will review what they learned about finding tax, tips, and discounts.
Students will review how to change a percent to a decimal, when to add the
percent we find, and when to subtract it. Students will learn about a percent
increase (going up in price by a certain percent in order to maximize profit),
as well as an additional percent off of a discount. Students will then be
introduced to percent of change.
f

Questions

Students should be able to explain how to find the tax or tip based on a bill,
or the discount. Students should be able to explain how a percent is changed
to a decimal, and how this is then used to find what we are either adding or
subtracting to the subtotal. They should also be able to explain why when we

have an additional discount, we cannot simply add the two percents together
and then use that to find our discount. Students should be able to define
percent of change, and give the formula used to find a percent increase or
decrease.

II

Teach the Lesson

a Activities:

Students will do a warm-up in which they will review what they learned about
tax, tips, and discounts. We will do a review on the topic to ensure students
understand how to find these things given various situations, and will then
finish the shopping activity in which they will have to apply this knowledge
to real life scenarios from the previous class period. Afterwards we will talk
about taking an additional percent off of a given discount and then do a
Plickers review before taking a short quiz. Students will then take notes on
percents of change and then continue being introduced to the topic.
b Materials:
Students will need paper, a calculator, something to write with, graph paper,
their interactive notebooks, glue, and the handouts and Plickers cards I will
provide.
c Check of Understanding:
Students understanding will be determined by how well they do on their
guided and independent practice, as well as how they do on the quiz.

III

Lesson Closure
a Conclusion of Lesson:

We will go over any questions they had about how to find the tax, tip, or
discount of a given sum of money. Students will discuss what we learned
about percent of change, and how to determine the formula used for a given
percent increase of decrease.
b Reinforcement:
Students guided and independent practice, as well as how they do on their
activity and their quiz will act as reinforcement.

IV

Self-Evaluation of Lesson

Students did very well on their review as well as on their quizzes! Students
even knew not to add percents together when given an additional discount
(i.e. and additional 25% discount on a shirt that was 30% off the original
price). Students also caught on very quickly to percent of change when
starting the guided practice at the end of the class period. We did not finish
the notes, so we will pick up where we left off in the next class period.