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Middle School Math and Logic : Percent Change Using Tips, Taxes, and Discounts

Completed by 10 learners
Ages 10-14
Live Group Class
This three-week course is part of a series of math courses designed to support neurodiverse learners. It includes a review and extension of previous topics and uses a problem-based curriculum to explore percent increase and decrease.
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Live video meetings
5x per week, 3 weeks
3-6 learners per class
50 min

What's included

15 live meetings
12 hrs 30 mins in-class hours
Homework
1 hour per week. Students may have ten-fifteen minutes of practice each day depending on time management during class. Each day students will be given one practice problem to complete neatly in notebooks.
Assessment
Learners will receive weekly written reports.

Class Experience

US Grade 5 - 8
This is the sixth course in a series of small group classes for middle school math. These classes are a hybrid of individualized learning and traditional classes. Each section has no more than five learners which provides a foundation for strong relationships, social-emotional learning, and truly individualized instruction. 
This series is based on an accelerated math curriculum that covers three years of content, aligned to Common Core Math Standards, over the course of two school years. It is perfect for students beginning middle school and students who need to catch up. The curriculum is problem-based this means instead of lectures or videos students work together as a small group to solve problems to discover principles and strategies with teacher guidance, as necessary. Therefore, we will spend approximately 90% of each class period working on problems and discussing them as a group. The use of discussion and problem-solving leads to generalized mathematics or proofs. This process prepares students well who may seek advanced mathematics in high-school or beyond. Students will complete a math notebook In the style of a “Main Lesson” book found in Waldorf and Steiner education philosophies to help with recall and long-term retention.
This unit is a three week study of percent change, error, and interpretation using early Algebra skills. These topics are centered around real-life scenarios including shopping, taxes, discounts, commission, mark-up and other financial topics to incorporate early finance and budgeting skills as well. 
Week 1: We will begin with a pre-unit skills assessment to refresh prerequisite skills for the unit. Then we will begin working with proportional relationships with fractions and decimals as well as introducing the idea of percents over a hundred and increasing/decreasing percents. 
Week 2: Students will practice percent change with equations and begin working with percents less than 1. Then they will begin applying their knowledge of percent change to real world situations. 
Week 3: Students will apply their percent skills to situations and begin discussing error including percent error and error intervals to evaluate percents and build early statistic skills. Students will apply these skills in a project using newspaper clippings. Finally, students will take a end of unit test.

Learning Goals

7.RP. A Analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems
7.NS.B Apply and extend previous understandings of operations with fractions to add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational numbers.
7.EE.C Use properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions.
7.EE.D Solve real-life and mathematical problems using numerical and algebraic expressions and equations.

7.MP.1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
7.MP.2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
7.MP.3 Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
7.MP.4 Model with mathematics.
7.MP.5 Use appropriate tools strategically.
7.MP.6 Attend to precision.
7.MP.7 Look for and make use of structure.
7.MP.8 Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Other Details

Parental Guidance
We will be using nearpod during this class. Students will need to click a link in chat and enter their first name or initial into the program. Students should be reminded not to use their full name. Students will also need access to scissors and may require adult supervision or support.
Language of Instruction
English
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.

Meet the teacher

Joined April, 2021
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I have been completed three college-level courses on common-core math instruction. I have worked as a math instructor for middle school students in a private school setting. I have ten years of experience as a math tutor including working with students from ages 5 (kindergarten) to 25 (Graduate Readiness Exam).

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