Lesson 1
NYS COMMON CORE MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM
7•4
Lesson 1: Percent
Name:
Date:
Bell-Ringer:
Convert the following fractions into decimal form:
1/4=
1/5=
1/10=
Objective:
𝑃𝑃

Understand that 𝑃𝑃 percent is the number

Write a non-whole number percent as a complex fraction.

100
and that the symbol % means percent.
Convert between a fraction, decimal, and percent, including percents that are less than 1% or greater than
100%.
Classwork (2 days)
Opening Exercise 1
Color in the grids to represent the following fractions:
a.
30
b.
100
Lesson 1:
3
100
Percent
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Lesson 1
NYS COMMON CORE MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM
7•4
Example 1
Use the definition of the word percent to write each percent as a fraction and then as a decimal.
Percent
25%
Fraction
Decimal
50%
10%
37.5%
100%
110%
1%
½%
Example 2
Fill in the chart by converting between fractions, decimals, and percents. Show your work in the space below.
Fraction
Decimal
Percent
½
0.25
75%
1/8
0.15
36%
Lesson 1:
Percent
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NYS COMMON CORE MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM
Lesson 1
7•4
Converting Fractions, Percents and Decimals Practice:
Lesson 1:
Percent
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Lesson 1
NYS COMMON CORE MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM
Lesson Summary
1
One percent is the number

Usually, there are three ways to write a number: a percent, a fraction, and a decimal. The fraction and
100
and is written 1%. The number P% is the same as the number
𝑃𝑃

decimal forms of 𝑃𝑃% are equivalent to
𝑃𝑃
100
100
.
.
Exercise: Class Card (“I have…/who has?...) Activity
Read your card to yourself (each student has a different card), and work out the problem. When the exercise begins,
listen carefully to the questions being read. When you have the card with the equivalent value, respond by reading your
card aloud.
Examples:
0.22 should be read “twenty-two hundredths.”
7
300
200
100
should be read “seven three-hundredths” or “seven over three hundred.”
should be read “two hundred hundredths” or “two hundred over one hundred.”
HOMEWORK
Exit Ticket
1.
Fill in the chart converting between fractions, decimals, and percents. Show work in the space provided.
Lesson 1:
Percent
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Lesson 1
NYS COMMON CORE MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM
Fraction
Decimal
7•4
Percent
1/5
0.3
1/4
40%
0.375
62.5%
Using the values from the chart in Problem 1, which is the least and which is the greatest? Explain how you arrived at
your answers.
Lesson 1:
Percent
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