| Task Name : Fractions, Decimals, Percentages Doughnuts | Task Level : G (Grade 6) | ||
| Semester : 1 | Topic : Decimals and Percentages | VC Strand : Fractions and Decimals | |
| Web Address : http://maths.crusoecollege.vic.edu.au/fdG | |||
| Equipment Needed : Photocopies of tenths, hundredths and thousandths squares. Sixteen doughnut puzzle pieces. | |||
| Victorian Curriculum outcome : Make connections between equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages. | |||
| Task description : Students solve the doughnut puzzle by creating four four-domino doughnuts where the meeting ends are equivalent. Once they have done this, they prove each connection using decimal and fraction squares. | |||
| Assessment options : Photograph of doughnuts with proofs. | |||
| Teacher notes : Some proofs are much harder than others: particularly those that involve thirds. Encourage students to see that percentage means โout of 100โ and so all percentages should be done with a hundredths square. | |||
| Downloads :ย Doughnut percents cards Fractions and decimal squares | |||
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