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Rational Numbers

​ 7th Grade Pre-Algebra
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Number Sense
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Small Group Cooperation/Collaboration
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 * //Lesson Objectives: //**
 * Students will understand what a rational number, terminating decimal, and repeating decimal is.
 * Students will be able to express fractions as terminating or repeating decimals and order them.
 * Students will understand how to work together to construct a display of data.


 * //Time required to complete this lesson: //** 2 Days

Rational Numbers
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- Text Book - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Survey Worksheet: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Computers with Microsoft Excel
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Students have shown proficient understanding of division of whole numbers and are now moving on to division of rational numbers. Students will learn that dividing rational numbers can result in a terminating decimal or repeating decimal. Students will also learn how to input data into an Excel spreadsheet and create a circle graph.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">__Homework:__ Text Book even questions 1 - 20. __Project:__ Students will get into groups in class and decide on their survey question and choices, target population, and number of people to be surveyed. OUTSIDE of class students will survey their target population and have it ready for the next class. Students will complete the technology portion in class.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Students will use Excel to create a table and circle graph depicting their results from the survey.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Students will be learning rational numbers by the implementation of computer software. This allows the use of multiple learning styles including visual and social thus increasing the probability of retention.
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