Lenard's Growing Post

Question 1
What is a good definition of percent? You should use words symbols, pictures and numerical examples in your definition. (suggestion gliffy is an excellent tool for adding detail to your definition.)
-To get a percent you divide a # then you times it by 100

Question 2
How are three fifths (3/5), 3:2, 60% and 0.6 all the same? Use pictures and words to show your answer.
-There all the same because the 3/5, 3:2, 60%, 0.6 there all = to fraction, ratio, percent and decimals.So they are equal to 3 over 5

Question 3
Show 3 different ways to find 35% of 80. (bubbleshare is an excellent tool to animate the many different ways of finding these answer).
-1st --------80/100=0.8x35=28

-2nd -------35/100=0.35x80=28

-3rd -------0.35/100=0.0035x0.8=0.0028
Question 4
Find a link to blogs that deal with percentages. Leave a comment behind and add the link with a review (What the post was talking about....yes you have to read the post and why others should read the post) Hint In the side bar there are links to other schools. Three of them have done work on percentages!

Question 5
The principal announced that 50% of the children in Ms. Stanzi's class met their reading goal for the month and that 55% of the children in Ms Lowrey's class met their reading goal for the month. Ms Stanzi said that a greater number of her students met their reading goal. Could Ms Stanzi be correct? Why or Why not.
-50% of the class in Ms. Sanzi's class
-55% of the class in Ms Lowrey's class
-yes=she could be right because there are more kids in her class

Question 6
Use a hundred grid (unit square) to illustrate the following questions. Once you have explained and illustrated what the question means solve it.

a) 16 is 40% of what number?16/100=0.16
1%=0.16
0.16x10%=1.6
b) What is 120% of 30?
1.20x30=36 36 is the whole part --36 = 120% of 30


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Rina's Growing Post

Question 1 -- What is a good definition of percent? You should use words symbols, pictures and numerical examples in your definition.

Question 2 --How are three fifths (3/5), 3:2, 60% and 0.6 all the same? Use pictures and words to show your answer.

They are the same because ...
3 / 5 = 0.6
so 0.6 is the decimal

Then ...

0.6 * 100= 60% which is the percent.

And the ratio is the same because 3 is the part and 5 is the whole. Then you have to find the other part. So then you subtract 5 by 3 and you get 3:2.

They're the same because they are equivalent.

Question 3 -- Show 3 different ways to find 35% of 80. (bubbleshare is an excellent tool to animate the many different ways of finding these answer).

35% (80) = ?

35/100 (80) = ?

35 (80) = 100?

2800 = 100?

The answer is 28% because if you cross out the two zero's in 2800 you have 28. Then you cross out the other 2 zeroes in 100. Then you devide 28 by 1 which is 28% so thats the answer.

There are more ways...

Question 4 --- Find a link to blogs that deal with percentages. Leave a comment behind and add the link with a review (What the post was talking about....yes you have to read the post and why others should read the post) Hint In the side bar there are links to other schools. Three of them have done work on percentages!

This site shows stuff on how to find percentages. You can also learn alot of other ways to learn math on this web site.

http://www.321know.com/pct.htm

Question 5 -- The principal announced that 50% of the children in Ms. Stanzi's class met their reading goal for the month and that 55% of the children in Ms Lowrey's class met their reading goal for the month. Ms Stanzi said that a greater number of her students met their reading goal. Could Ms Stanzi be correct? Why or Why not.

Maybe yes or no. Because Ms.Stanzi has a lower percent, and Ms.Lowrey has 5 percent higher. But you wouldnt really know because it doesnt say how much students are in each class. And maybe because, there are less students in Ms.Stanzi's class that probably reached a higher goal even though it's a less percentage. And for Ms.Lowrey's class there are probably more students thats why.

(i dont really know?? but i tried my best.)

Question 6 -- Use a hundred grid (unit square) to illustrate the following questions. Once you have explained and illustrated what the question means solve it.

a) 16 is 40% of what number?

Now you found the fraction that equals 40%. I found 16

b) What is 120% of 30?

i tried my best. sorry if this is isn't good enough. i did it late. but i just tried. =)

kyle's percentage growing post

Question 1

What is a good definition of percent?

You should use words symbols, pictures and numerical examples in your definition. (suggestion gliffy is an excellent tool for adding detail to your definition.) Percent: A number out of 100 (35% = 35/100)

Question 2

How are three fifths (3/5), 3:2, 60% and 0.6 all the same? Use pictures and words to show your answer.

3:2 is the same because if you convert the ratio it would be 3/5 (3+2=5 ' 3/5' 60% is the same as if you convert it to a fraction it would be 60/100 then you simplify it (60 divided by 20 and 100 divided by 20 and you would get 3/5) 0.6 is the same as 3/5 because if you multiply 0.6 times 10 you would get 60 then use the same steps as the one above in brackets

Question 3

Show 3 different ways to find 35% of 80. (bubbleshare is an excellent tool to animate the many different ways of finding these answer).

1. 100/100=1 80/100= 0.8 0.8x35=282. 35/2=17.5 x 0.8=14 14+14=283. 80/10=8810, 810, 810, 45=2835 , 8/2=4

Question 4

Find a link to blogs that deal with percentages. Leave a comment behind and add the link with a review (What the post was talking about....yes you have to read the post and why others should read the post) Hint In the side bar there are links to other schools. Three of them have done work on percentages!

http://linden8z.blogspot.com

I left a comment on this site about how there basically doing the same things we are doing!

Question 5

The principal announced that 50% of the children in Ms. Stanzi's class met their reading goal for the month and that 55% of the children in Ms Lowrey's class met their reading goal for the month. Ms Stanzi said that a greater number of her students met their reading goal. Could Ms Stanzi be correct? Why or Why not.

Ms. Stanzi cannot be correct because even though Ms. Lowery has less student her percentage of the class is more greater than Ms. Stanzi's class.Example:Say that Ms. Stanzi had 40 students and Ms Lowery had 30.Ms. Stanzi1) 40=1002) 40/2=203) 20=50% (this means that 20 student me there reading goal)Ms Lowery1) 30=1002) 30/2 =153) 30/2.5=124) 20+12=32 (that means 32 kids met there goal)


Question 6

Use a hundred grid (unit square) to illustrate the following questions. Once you have explained and illustrated what the question means solve it.

a) 16 is 40% of what number?

40%of 100 is 4040/100=0.416x0.4=4040/100=16/40I got this answer by dividing 40 by 100 that gives me 0.4, and then you multiply the decimal by the part that gives you 40% of 16.

b) What is 120% of 30?

120% of 100 is 120120/100=1.230 x 1.2=36120/100 = 36/30I got this answer by finding out what 120%of 100 is and it is 100, and then I divided 120by 100which gives me 1.2.Then you multiply by the whole which is 30 by 1.2 and that gives you 30 out of 36

Alexm's Percentage Growing Post

Question 1...
What is a good definition of percent? You should use words symbols, pictures and numerical examples in your definition.


Question 2...
How are three fifths (3/5), 3:2, 60% and 0.6 all the same? Use pictures and words to show your answer.
-those are all the same because they would give you all the same answer...
-if you convert all of them to decimal or convert them to fraction you will get
-decimal: 0.6
-fraction:3/5
Question 3...
Show 3 different ways to find 35% of 80. (bubbleshare is an excellent tool to animate the many different ways of finding these answer).
1st................................. 80 divided 10=8x3.5=28
2nd................................ 0.35x80=28
3rd................................ 80/100x35%=28
----------I found this other way to get 28....















Question 4...
Find a link to blogs that deal with percentages. Leave a comment behind and add the link with a review (What the post was talking about....yes you have to read the post and why others should read the post) Hint In the side bar there are links to other schools. Three of them have done work on percentages!
https://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33406999&postID=116475202279206720
Question 5...
The principal announced that 50% of the children in Ms. Stanzi's class met their reading goal for the month and that 55% of the children in Ms Lowrey's class met their reading goal for the month. Ms Stanzi said that a greater number of her students met their reading goal. Could Ms Stanzi be correct? Why or Why not.
50% in class met .....for month = Ms. Stanzis's
55% in class met ......for month = Ms. Lowrey's
YES= Ms. Stanzi could be right if she had less students than Ms. Lowreys class.
Question 6...
Use a hundred grid (unit square) to illustrate the following questions. Once you have explained and illustrated what the question means solve it.
___________________________________________
a) 16 is 40% of what number?

16divided100=0.16
1 %=0.16
0.16x10%=1.6










b) What is 120% of 30?

minimize 120 to =1.20
1.20x30=36

36 = 120% of 30










This is the end of your first growing post. It is due on Monday December 18. There are late penalties if you do not complete the assignments on time. Late Assignments will be accepted.

Aron percentage growing post

Question #1:
What is a good definition of percent? You should use words symbols, pictures and numerical examples in your definition.

Question #2: How are three fifths (3/5), 3:2, 60% and 0.6 all the same? Use pictures and words to show your answer.

If you divide these two numbers 3 and 5, the outcome will be o.6 = 3/5=0.6

Divide 3 into 5, then times it by 100, you should get 60% = 3/5 = 0.6 x 100 = 60%

3/5 and 3:2 are exactly the the same thing. The number 3 (numerator) is the first part, then subtract the demoninator which is 5 into 3 (numerator) (5-3=2) so you can get the second part. So 3/5 becomes 3:5.









Question #3:
Show 3 different ways to find 35% of 80.

1.) 80/100=0.8 or 1%
0.8=1%
35 x 0.8=28 (35% of 80 is 28)

2.) 80/100 = 0.8/1%x35 = 28
28/80 = 35/100

3.)80/4=20 or 25% 80/10=8 or 10%

20+8=28 or 35%

Question 4

Find a link to blogs that deal with percentages. Leave a comment behind and add the link with a review (What the post was talking about....yes you have to read the post and why others should read the post) Hint In the side bar there are links to other schools. Three of them have done work on percentages!

This blog http://linden8m.blogspot.com/ is the good.

Question 5

The principal announced that 50% of the children in Ms. Stanzi's class met their reading goal for the month and that 55% of the children in Ms Lowrey's class met their reading goal for the month. Ms Stanzi said that a greater number of her students met their reading goal. Could Ms Stanzi be correct? Why or Why not.

Ms. Stanzi is correct. She is correct because she has more kids than Ms. Lowrey. Ms. Stanzi had 40 kids and Ms. Lowrey had 25 kids, Ms. Stanzi would have 20 children that have met their reading goal of the month because 40 divided by 2 equals 20 or 50%. Ms. Lowrey would have 14 or 15 children that had met their reading goal because 39 divided by 100 is 0.39 and multiply is by 100 would give you 13.75. Ms. Stanzi can be correct.


Question 6
Use a hundred grid (unit square) to illustrate the following questions. Once you have explained and illustrated what the question means solve it.

Fiel's Percentage Growing Post

Question #1: What is a good definition of percent? You should use words symbols, pictures and numerical examples in your definition. (suggestion gliffy is an excellent tool for adding detail to your definition.)

Question #2: How are three fifths (3/5),3:2,60% and 0.6 all the same? Use pictures and words to show your answer

If you convert 0.6 to percent, the answer is 60%

0.6 x 100 is 60%

Question #3: Show 3 different ways to find 35% of 80. (bubbleshare is an excellent tool to animate the many different ways of finding these answer).

a) 35% /100=0.35x80=28

b) 25% of 80 = 80/4=20

c) 10% of 50 = 50/10=5

Question #4: Find a link to blogs that deal with percentages. Leave a comment behind and add the link with a review (What the post was talking about....yes you have to read the post and why others should read the post) Hint In the side bar there are links to other schools. Three of them have done work on percentages!

I found this link http://linden8m.blogspot.com/ and its awesome.

you can learned how to convert a percent to a decimal, decimal to percent and percent to fraction. It is explained very clearly for you to understand how to convert a percent.

Question #5: The principal announced that 50% of the children in Ms. Stanzi's class met their reading goal for the month and that 55% of the children in Ms Lowrey's class met their reading goal for the month. Ms Stanzi said that a greater number of her students met their reading goal. Could Ms Stanzi be correct? Why or Why not.

Question #6: Use a hundred grid (unit square) to illustrate the following questions. Once you have explained and illustrated what the question means solve it.

a) 16 is 40% of what number?

You have to divided the 16 to 40 and then when you get the answer you have to multiply it by 100 then the answer ias the representing number.

b) What is 120% of 30?

I only I did is to divided the reprenting number to 100 then the answer will be multiplied on the given pieace of squares. Then the answer is is 36% of 30.

Cindy's Pecentage Growing Post

Question 1:
What is a good definition of percent? You should use words symbols, pictures and numerical ex
amples in your definition. (suggestion Giffy is an excellent tool for adding detail to your definition.)





Question 2
How are three fifths (3/5),3:2,60% and 0.6 all the same? Use pictures and words to show your answer.

3/5, 3:2, 60%, and 0.6 are the same because when you convert 3/5 in a ratio, percent and they are the same

Ratio 3/5=3:2
Percent 3/5 = 3/5=0.6 0.6x100=60%
Decimal 3/5= 3/5=0.6

Question 3
Show 3 different ways to find 35% of 80. (bubble share is an excellent tool to animate the many different ways to finding these answer).

a.) 35% of 80
80/100=0.8
0.8x35=28

b.) 100/1=100
80/1=80
0.8x35=28

c.) 28 over 80 = 35 over 100

Question 4
Find a link to blogs that deal with percentages. Leave a comment behind and add the link with a review (What the post was talking about....yes you have to read the post and why others should read the post) Hint in the side bar there are links to other schools. Three of them have done work on percentages.

http://linden8z.blogspot.com/2006/11/percentages-real-deal.html

People should read this because it deals with percentages.
It tells us how to convert fractions to percents.
It tells us how to get the lowest term a lower fraction

Sorry if i don't have the questions 5 and 6 because i didn't have time to do it.

Sarah's Percentage Growing Post

(Question2 this is the answer)
Question 1:
What is a good definition of percent? You should use words symbols, pictures and numerical examples in your definition.




Question 2
How are three fifths (3/5), 3:2, 60% and 0.6 all the same? Use pictures and words to show your answer.

These numbers are the same because:When you divide 3 by 5 = o.6x10=60%

Amalia's Growing Post

Question 1
What is a good definition of a percent? You should use words symbols, pictures and numerical examples in your definition. (suggestion gliffy is an excellent tool for adding detail to your definition.)
an equivalent fraction out of an hundred.It can be converted into a ratio, decimal.



Question 2
How are three fifths (3/5), 3:2, 60% and 0.6 all the same? Use pictures and words to show your answer.

3/5, 3:2, 60%, and 0.6 are equivalent.

Question 3
Show 3 different ways to find 35% of 80. (bubbleshare is an excellent tool to animate the many different ways of finding these answer?.



(I could not get into bubbleshare due to internet problems at the school .. please forgive me !)

Question 4
Find a link to blogs that deal with percentages. Leave a comment behind and add the link with a review (What the post was talking about....yes you have to read the post and why others should read the post) Hint in the side bar there are links to other schools. Three of them have done work on percentages!

I commented on this scribe post, Click, but it has not yet been accepted to be visible. This post explains things about fractions. It explains how to simplify a fraction. Thats why I think others should read this post.

Question 5
The principal announced that 50% of the children in Ms. Stanzi's class met their reading goal for the month and that 55% of the children in Ms. Lowrey's class met their reading goal for themonth. Ms. Stanzi said that a greater number of students met their reading goal. Could Ms. Stanzi be correct? Why or Why not.



Question 6
Use a hundred grid (unit square) to illustrate the following questions. Once you have explained and illustrated what the question mean solve it.

a) 16 is 40% of what number?




b)What is 120% of 30?

Janna's Percentage Growing Post

Question 1:
What is a good definition of percent? You should use words symbols, pictures and numerical examples in your definition.



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How are three fifths (3/5), 3:2, 60% and 0.6 all the same? Use pictures and words to show your answer.



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Question 3: Show 3 different ways to find 35% of 80.



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Question 4:

Find a link to blogs that deal with percentages. Leave a comment behind and add the link with a review (What the post was talking about....yes you have to read the post and why others should read the post) Hint In the side bar there are links to other schools. Three of them have done work on percentages!


I comented on Click! but they have to accept it first. Their post that I read talked about how they used money to explain percents. They did a really good job on their explanations!


Question 5:
The principal announced that 50% of the children in Ms. Stanzi's class met their reading goal for the month and that 55% of the children in Ms Lowrey's class met their reading goal for the month. Ms Stanzi said that a greater number of her students met their reading goal. Could Ms Stanzi be correct? Why or Why not.

Ms.Stanzi could have more children in her class than Ms.Lowery. So Ms. Stanzi could be correct. She could be correct because she might have more kids than Ms. Lowrey. If Ms. Stanzi had 36 kids in her class and Ms. Lowrey had 20 kids in her class, Ms. Stanzi would have 13 children that have met their reading goal of the month because 36 divided by 2 equals 13 or 50%. Ms. Lowrey would have 10 children that had met their reading goal because 20 divided by 2 is 10. Ms. Stanzi could be correct.

Ms. Stanzi and Ms. Lowery could have the same number of children in their classes. Then Ms. Stanzi could be Wrong. For an example they could both have 40 kids in their classes. Then Ms. Stanzi would have 20 kids in her class who met their goal. Ms. Lowery would have about 21 22 23 kids who met their goal.

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Question 6: Use a hundred grid (unit square) to illustrate the following questions. Once you have explained and illustrated what the question means solve it.

a) 16 is 40% of what number?

Formula:

Take 16(since it is worth 40%) and put it over the percentage(40%) to get a fraction. 16 over 40. Then divide the numerator by the denominator to get a decimal(0.4). Multiply the decimal(0.4) by 100 to get the total. 0.4 x 100 = 40(move the decimal to the left 2 times since there are two 0's in 100). Now to check it. If your not sure how to watch the bubble share I created.

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b) What is 120% of 30?
Formula:
Divide 30 by 100 = 0.3( Just move the decimal 2 places to the left since there are 2 0's in 100)
0.3 = 1% (multiply 1%(0.3) by your other % which is 120%)
0.3 x 120 = 36
120% of 30 = 36




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I did my self assesment(still waiting on two others to asses my work). I marked Thyrza May's work it was done super well.Click 8-41 on here then see here growing post. I also marked Rainer's work who did an awesome job. Click 8-73 Math Blog (2006). Both of these student did an amazing job. If you need help doing your growing post go and check these two out. (but don't copy).

Jorel's Percentage Growing Post

Question 1



What is a good definition of percent? You should use words symbols, pictures and numerical examples in your definition










Question 2



How are three fifths (3/5), 3: 2, 60% and 0. 6 all the same ? Use pictures a nd words to sho w your answer.



if you all convert them all to decimal, you will all see that they are equivalents, they are all 0.6





if you divide 60 by 100 you'll get 0.6




60% / 100 + 0.6






add 3and 2 together, that's the denominator. the numerator is 3



3:2= 3/5=0.6





divide 3 and 5 and you'll get 0.6
3/5=0.6











Question 3



Show 3 different ways to find 35% of 80. (bubbleshare is an excellent tool to animate the many different ways of finding these answer).





a) 35% /100=0.35x80=28





b) 80/100=0.8 or 1% x 35 = 28

c) 80/4=20 or 25% 80/10=8 or 10%

20+8=28 or 35%



Question 4



Find a link to blogs that deal with percentages. Leave a comment behind and add the link with a review (What the post was talking about....yes you have to read the post and why others should read the post) Hint In the side bar there are links to other schools. Three of them have done work on percentages!



I found this blog http://linden8m.blogspot.com/ and its awesome.




you can learned how to convert percent into fraction and decimal if you still don't know




Question 5



The principal announced that 50% of the children in Ms. Stanzi's class met their reading goal for the month and that 55% of the children in Ms Lowrey's class met their reading goal for the month. Ms Stanzi said that a greater number of her students met their reading goal. Could Ms Stanzi be correct? Why or Why not.





the answer of is defend on the number of Ms. Stanzi's students compare to the number of the



students in Ms. Lowrey's class.




because for example if Ms. Stanzi have 200 students and Ms. Lowrey only have 100, Ms. Stanzi



would have more students who mer their reading goal.



Stanzi= 200 / 2 =100 or 50% 100 students met their reading goal in here



Lowrey= 100 / 100 = 1 x 55 = 55 or 55% 55 students met their reading goal in here





Question 6


Use a hundred grid (unit square) to illustrate the following questions. Once you have explained and illustrated what the question means solve it.

a) 16 is 40% of what number?



40% x 2 = 80%+20%=100% 40% = 16 / 2 = 8 or 20%



16 x 2 = 32 + 8 = 40 or 100%









b) What is 120% of 30?

0.3 x 20 = 6
100% = 30
20% = 6
100% +20% = 120%
30 + 6 = 36 or 120%


I have left comments at Aaron's and Christian's Percentage Growing Posts.

Growing Post Marking Rubric

Percent Growing Post Rubric


Remember you only create one post. You then edit it as you add more information.
Due Date Monday December 18

Overall Growing Post Instructions

5 Marks

1. The Growing Post is labeled correctly.(2)
2. The Growing Post is titled correctly. (1)
   
3. The questions for the Growing Post are copied in and in a different colour than the rest of the post.(2)

Question 1 What is a good definition of percent? You should use words symbols, pictures and numerical examples in your definition. (suggestion gliffy is an excellent tool for adding detail to your definition.)

10 Marks

1. The question is answered correctly.(1)
2. There is a symbol, picture and numerical example for the question(3)
3. There is an image with this question.(3)
4. The image for this question has be used in Gliffy, Bubbleshare or another application from Studentblogwikitools.(2)
   
5. The student showed beyond normal effort in answering this question.(1)

Question 2 How are three fifths (3/5), 3:2, 60% and 0.6 all the same? Use pictures and words to show your answer.

10 Marks

1. Shows how the values are equivalent using numbers.(3)
2. Shows how the values are equivalent using images.(2)
3. Shows how all the values are equivalent using pictures.(2)
4. The images for this question has be used in Gliffy, Bubbleshare or another application from Studentblogwikitools.(2)
   
5. The student showed beyond normal effort in answering this question.(1)

Question 3 Show 3 different ways to find 35% of 80. (bubbleshare is an excellent tool to animate the many different ways of finding these answer).

10 Marks

1. Shows 1 way to find the answer.(1)
2. Shows 2 ways to find the answer.(1)
3. Shows 3 ways to solve the question.(1)
4. Illustrates the ways to get the answer.(3)
5. The images for this question has be used in Gliffy, Bubbleshare or another application from Studentblogwikitools.(3)
6. The student showed beyond normal effort in answering this question. (1)
   

Question 4
Find a link to blogs that deal with percentages. Leave a comment behind and add the link with a review (What the post was talking about....yes you have to read the post and why others should read the post) Hint In the side bar there are links to other schools. Three of them have done work on percentages!

5 Marks

1. Student left a comment behind at a different school.(1)
2. Student left a link in their post that works.(2)
3. Student left a review of the post they were linking too.(1)
4. The student showed beyond normal effort in answering this question. (1)

Question 5
The principal announced that 50% of the children in Ms. Stanzi's class met their reading goal for the month and that 55% of the children in Ms Lowrey's class met their reading goal for the month. Ms Stanzi said that a greater number of her students met their reading goal. Could Ms Stanzi be correct? Why or Why not.

10 Marks

1. Student answers the question correctly.(2)
2. Student explains Why or Why not.(3)
3. The images for this question has be used in Gliffy, Bubbleshare or another application from Studentblogwikitools.(3)
4. The student showed beyond normal effort in answering this question. (1)

Question 6
Use a hundred grid (unit square) to illustrate the following questions. Once you have explained and illustrated what the question means solve it.

15 Marks
a) 16 is 40% of what number?

1. Answers the question properly.(2)
2. Uses an image to illustrate answering the question.(2)
3. The images for this question has be used in Gliffy, Bubbleshare or another application from Studentblogwikitools.(2)
4. The student showed beyond normal effort in answering this question. (1.5)

b) What is 120% of 30?

1. Answers the question properly.(2)
2. Uses an image to illustrate answering the question.(2)
3. The images for this question has be used in Gliffy, Bubbleshare or another application from Studentblogwikitools.(2)
4. The student showed beyond normal effort in answering this question. (1.5)

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Nicole's Percentage Growing Post

1.What is a good definition of percent?You should use symbols, pictures and numerical examples in your definition.
click on the picture
2.how are three fifths(3/5),3:2,60% and 0.6 all the same?use pictures and words to show your answer.
3/5=0.6(I divide 3 to 5 to be able to get 0.6).

If you convert 0.6 to percent, the answer is 60%(0.6 x 100 is 60%).

3:5
=part and whole
=3:2(because 3 plus 2 = 5 which is the whole).
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3.Show 3 different ways to find 35% of 80.

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kristian's growing post---December 17, 2006

Question 1
What is a good defenition of percent?

Question 2
How are three fifths (3/5), 3:2, 60%, and, 0.6 all the same?

the 3/5, 3:2 is both the same. 3 is the numerator and the 2. the 3,2 will be add as the denomenator as 5.

Question 3
Show 3 Different ways to find 35% of 80.

1. 100/100=1 80/100= 0.8 0.8x35=282. 35/2=17.5 x 0.8=14 14+14=28

2. 35% = 0.3580 Divided By 0.35= 28

3. 40% of 100 is 4040/100=0.416 x 0.4=4040/100 = 16/40

Question 4

Find a link to blogs that deal with percenteges. Leave a comment behind and add the link with a review (what the post was talking about...yes you have to read the post and why others should read post)Hint in the side bar there are links to other school. Three of them have done work on percentage!

How to convert percent into decimal

How to convert percent into fraction

How to convert percent into ratio

Amy's Percentage Growing Post

Question 1
What is a good definition of percent? You should use words symbols, pictures, and numerical examples in you definition.
A percentage is part of a whole. It can be converted into a fraction, decimal, and a ratio. A percentage is an equivalent fraction out of 100. The % sign also means that there is a number out of 100.

Question 2
How are three fifths (3/5), 3:2, 60%, and 0.6 all the same? Use pictures and words to show your answer.



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Question 3
Show 3 different ways to find 35% of 80.

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Question 4
Find a link to blogs that deal with percentages. Leave a comment behind and add the link with a review (What the post was talking about.... yes you have to read the post and why others should read the post) Hint In the side bar there are links to other schools. Three of them have done work on percentages!


I commented on this blog: http://linden8m.blogspot.com/ but my comment has not yet been accepted to be visible. This post explains to us on how to convert things like fraction to percent, percent to decimal, decimal to percent and etc. It is a good place to look at if you are still struggling on converting fractions, percents, and decimals.


Question 5
The principal announced that 50% of the children in Ms. Stanzi's class met their reading goal for the month and that 55% of the children in Ms Lowrey's class met their reading goal for the month. Ms Stanzi said that a greater number of her students met their reading goal. Could Ms Stanzi be correct? Why or Why not.


Ms. Stanzi could be correct. She could be correct because she might have more kids than Ms. Lowrey. If Ms. Stanzi had 40 kids in her class and Ms. Lowrey had 25 kids in her class, Ms. Stanzi would have 20 children that have met their reading goal of the month because 40 divided by 2 equals 20 or 50%. Ms. Lowrey would have 14 or 15 children that had met their reading goal because 39 divided by 100 is 0.39 and multiply is by 100 would give you 13.75. Ms. Stanzi can be correct.


Question 6
Use a hundred grid (unit square) to illustrate the following questions. Once you have explained and illustrated what the question means solve it.


a) 16 is 40% of what number?


The number of squares that are shaded in is 16. The squares are all worth 40%. Now to find how much the unit square is worth, we make the numbers into fractions. In this case the fraction will be 16/40. Now we divide the numerator by the denominator to make the decimal which is 0.4. Then we multiply the decimal by 100 and the unit square should be worth 40.




b) What is 120% of 30?

For this one, you add 20% to your total unit square because you already have a total of 100% which is 30 so you'll need to add another 20% to make the total of 120. Lets figure out 10% of 30 first. 30 divided by 10 is 3. So if you take 10% and multiply it by 2, you get 20%. In this case 10% = 3 so 3 x 2 is 6. 6 is 20%. So 100% = 30, 20% = 6. 30(100%) + 6(20%) = 36. 120% of 30 is 36.






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Ashley's Growing Post

question 1- What is a good definition of percent? You should use words symbols, pictures and numerical examples in your definition. (suggestion gliffy is an excellent tool for adding detail to your definition.) a percent is a number out of 100

Question 2- How are three fifths (3/5), 3:2, 60% and 0.6 all the same? Use pictures and words to show your answer. This group of numbers are the same because they are all the same amount out of 100.

Question 3- Show 3 different ways to find 35% of 80. (bubbleshare is an excellent tool to animate the many different ways of finding these answer). one way of finding 35% of 80 is 80 divided by 100 multipled by 35=28.

Question 4- Find a link to blogs that deal with percentages. Leave a comment behind and add the link with a review (What the post was talking about....yes you have to read the post and why others should read the post) Hint In the side bar there are links to other schools. Three of them have done work on percentages!

Question 5- The principal announced that 50% of the children in Ms. Stanzi's class met their reading goal for the month and that 55% of the children in Ms Lowrey's class met their reading goal for the month. Ms Stanzi said that a greater number of her students met their reading goal. Could Ms Stanzi be correct? Why or Why not? Ms Stanzi is incorrect because 55% is a higher percentage then 50%.

Question 6- Use a hundred grid (unit square) to illustrate the following questions. Once you have explained and illustrated what the question means solve it.a) 16 is 40% of what number?b) What is 120% of 30?

Shawn's Percentage Growing Post

Question 1:
What is a good definition of percent? You should use words symbols, pictures and numerical examples in your definition.
A percent is an equivalent fraction out of 100. It can be converted into a fraction, decimal and ratio and is part of a whole. The percent sign (%) means that whatever number is chosen, is out of 100 because there are to 0's in the percent sign. If you dont know what a percent is still here are some examples of what a percent is on a picture:


A picture if you still do not understand the definition of a percent.


Question 2:
How are three fifths (3/5), 3:2, 60% and 0.6 all the same? Use pictures and words to show your answer.






The reason why 3/5, 3:2, 60% and 0.6 are all the same or equivalent, because say if you try to first convert 3/5 into a decimal, you'd get 0.6. The way you get 0.6 is that you divide the numerator (3) by the denominator (5) and you'd get 0.6.
If you then converted 0.6 into a percent you'd get 60%, because percent is out of 100 and in this case we have 60% and 0.6 x 100 = 60.
Finally if you convert 3/5 into a ratio, it would be expressed as 3:2 because the numerator (3) is put as the first part of the ratio which is also 3 and then to get the second part of the right side of the ratio, you subtract the denominator(5) by the numerator(3) - (5-3 = 2) and you get the second part of the ratio and in this case the second part would be 2. The equivalent ratio for 3/5 would be 3:2.



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Question 3:
Show 3 different ways to find 35% of 80.

1) 80 /100 - (total divided by 100 or whole) = 0.8 or 1%
0.8 x 35 (35%) = 28 = (35% of 80 is 28)





2) 80 / 100 - ( total divided by 100 or a whole ) = 0.8 or 1%
0.8 x 10 (10%) = 8
0.8 x 10 (10%) = 8
0.8 x 10 (10%) = 8
0.8 x 5 (5%) = 4

8 + 8 + 8 + 4 = 28/80 (28 = 35%)
10 + 10 + 10 + 5 = 35/100 (35 = 35%)






3) 80 / 100 - ( total divided by 100 or a whole ) = 0.8 or 1%
0.8 x 25 (25%) = 20
0.8 x 10 (10%) = 8

20 + 8 = 28/80 (28 = 35%)
25 + 10 = 35/100 (35 = 35%)




Question 4:
Find a link to blogs that deal with percentages. Leave a comment behind and add the link with a review ( What the post was talking about ... yes you have to read the post and why others should read the post ) Hint in the side bar there are links to other schools. Three of them have done work on percentages!

This is the post commented on : http://linden8m.blogspot.com/

This post shows you how to convert a percent into a decimal, a decimal to percent and percent to a fraction. This post was explained very well and it helped to understand better how to convert decimals, percents and fractions because that percent had very good detailed explanations and good clear pictures that helps you understand how to convert in a more better way. I also commented on how this person could improve their post by adding more pictures and colour to make it a better and more attractive post.




Question 5:
The principal announced that 50% of the children in Ms. Stanzi's class met their reading goal for the month and that 55% of the children in Ms. Lowrey's class met their reading goal for the month. Ms. Stanzi's said that a greater number of her students met their reading goal. Could Ms. Stanzi be correct? Why or why not.

I thnk Ms. Stanzi can be correct if she has more students than Ms. Lowrey to make her statement true because Ms. Lowrey has a larger % of students that have done their reading goal, but if Ms. Stanzi doesn't have more students, she is incorrect and she'll have fewer students that have done their reading goal because she has a lower % than Ms. Lowrey. So she has to have more students for this statement to be true.


1) Ms. Stanzi could be right about her class or not. So lets first create a scenario and and a number of students for each class. Let's say that Ms. Stanzi has 30 students in her class and according to the principal, 50% or half of them met the reading goal for the month (30 /2 = 15 ) , so 15 of the students in her class would have met their reading goal. Now let's Ms. Lowrey had more students and she had 40 students in her class and according to the principal, 55% of them met the reading goal for the month ( 40 /55 = 22 ) , so 22 of the students in her class would have met their reading goal. Now we know that Ms. Stanzi can't be correct now because Ms. Lowrey has 22 and Ms. Stanzi has 15 students who met their reading goal.

2) Let's try swapping the number of students between each class now. Ms. Stanzi will have 20 (40/50=20) and Ms. Lowrey will have 16.5 (30/100=0.3x55= 16.5) students that have met their reading goal because one student only did half of their reading goal. Now the tables have turned and now Ms. Stanzi has a greater number of students that have met their reading goal.

3) Now let's say they both had the same amount of students which we will make 30 for each class. Ms Stanzi would still be incorrect about about her statement because 50% of 20 is 10 which will be the amount of students that have met their reading goal in Ms. Stanzi's class. Ms. Lowrey would have more students that have met their reading goal because 55% of 20 is 11, so she would have 11 students that met their reading goal, so she still has more.




Question 6:
Use a hundred grid (unit square) to illustrate the following questions. Once you have explained and illustrated what the question means solve it.

a) 16 is 40% of what number?
The 40 is the number of square that are shaded in. The 16 is how much the 40 square are worth. To answer this question, we first have to put these numbers into fractions. We then divide 16 by 40 = 0.40 (1%) and multiply the answer by 100 = 40. 16 is 40% of 40. This is correct because we first get the percents, which is 40/100 and then we get the number and the total of the numbers we are trying to find and put them into a fraction, which would be 16/40. Then we divide those two fractions ( 40/100 & 16/40 ) into decimals to make sure they are right. 40 divided by 100 = 0.4 and 16 divided by 40 = 0.4. That is how I this answer is correct.

b) What is 120% of 30?
The first thing we do here is we find 1% by dividing 100 by 30 = 0.3 . After that divide 120 by 100 = 1.20. Then we multiply 1.20 by 0.3 = 36.120% of 30 is 36, which would be 36/30. I know this is correct because 120/100 which is 36/30 in a percentage equals 1.2 as a decimal. Then we do the exact same with 36/30 and that would also equal 1.2, and that's how I know this answer is correct.




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