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🧮 6th Grade · Math6.RP.A.3cUnit 3: Percents

Percent of a number

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🎯 Objective: Students find a percent of a quantity.

Lesson outline

  1. Tip and discount problems.
  2. Use tables and double number lines.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: 15% of 60.

Lesson 2 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

6.RP.A.3c

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 6 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Understand percent as a rate per 100
  • Find a percent of a quantity and the whole from a part

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Ratios & rates💯 Percentage calculator📚 All 6th Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Percents”

  1. What is a percent?
  2. Percent of a number
  3. Finding the whole

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