Monday, March 23, 2009

Using the 10% Shortcut

We worked with finding percent of a number, in particular we talked again today about using the 10% shortcut to help in finding percent of a number. The problems we focused on today were discount problems!

The kids got this during class - here's a copy of it and here's a copy of the answers. They SHOULD finish this for homework... and they should read the instructions carefully! (no rounding... doing it by hand first before checking with a calculator...)