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The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl | Stacy McAnulty

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The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl | Stacy McAnulty

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Ever since Lucy Callahan was struck by lightning, she has been homeschooled. The strike gave her genius-level math skills. Now at only 12 years old, she is ready for college, yet her grandmother insists she goes to middle school for a year. She must: Make one friend. Join one activity. And read one book unrelated to math. Lucy doesn’t know what else she could learn in middle school and already has everything she needs at home. The book shares witty math-related humor that challenges the brain and an engaging story that celebrates friendship. Throughout the book, the reader is challenged with real-world examples of math relating to many units, including the essential question for the unit answering how fractions, decimals, and percents are related.

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Evan and Jessie Treski are siblings and rivaling entrepreneurs. Evan is good at talking with people and street smart, whereas his sister is math smart and great at calculating business plans. With only five days left of summer vacation, the siblings challenge each other to see who can sell the most lemonade before the beginning of the school year. This book is a fantastic blend of wit, math, and business know-how. The story captures a unique bond between siblings and explores real-world application of fractions, decimals, and percents in business. This read is a great challenge for students to work towards while learning about our unit's essential questions in the classroom.

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Converting percents to decimals & fractions | Khan Academy

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Converting percents to decimals & fractions | Khan Academy

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This video verbally and visually describes how to convert fractions, decimals, and percents into different notations. The video begins by explaining we are surrounded by examples of fractions, decimals, and percentages. The video introduces vocabulary relating to the essential question. It explains that you state the same information using different forms. The video shows examples using coins, pizza, graphs, and more to give a diverse idea of thinking for the rest of the unit. Introducing new ideas students might not have previously considered supports students in building their conceptual knowledge and can scaffold future learning during the unit. After watching this video, students will have the background they need to accomplish reading their target texts.

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Ratios let us see how two values relate, especially when the values grow or shrink together. From baking recipes to sports, these concepts find their way into our lives on a daily basis.

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Ratios | 6th grade | Math | Khan Academy

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Ratios let us see how two values relate, especially when the values grow or shrink together. From baking recipes to sports, these concepts find their way into our lives on a daily basis.

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Learning Fractions, Decimals, and Percents | abcteach‬

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Learning Fractions, Decimals, and Percents | abcteach‬

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This resource takes students through an interactive lesson with informational video texts and articles and checks for understanding as the students progress through the lesson. The lesson is related to the essential question, and by the end of the reading, students should have a solid understanding of how fractions, decimals, and percents are related. This article builds knowledge giving students the basic knowledge they need to accomplish the target texts.

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‪Learning Fractions, Decimals, and Percents | abcteach‬

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This chart is great for students trying to answer this unit’s essential question. It shows the relationship between fractions, decimals, and percents. The chart shows multiple forms that can help learners grasp the information in many forms, including visual learning. This chart can help students understand fractions in different forms which will assist their learning greatly when reading target texts.

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Fraction decimal and percent from visual model

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Fraction decimal and percent from visual model

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This video uses the visual model to teach students the relations between fractions, decimals, and percents. During the examples the teacher shows a visual representation and then answers what the fraction decimal and percent would look like for that model. This video is great for supporting visual learners and describes the concepts in the essential question in an alternative way that will help support learners later on when reading the target text.

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Fraction decimal and percent from visual model

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A conversion triangle is a visual way to see the relationship between fractions, decimals, and percents. This image helps students remember the conversion formulas. This information can be a quick way to help students with memorization of the essential question. It builds students' knowledge and gives them a tool to recall when tackling the target texts for the unit.

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A Fractions Goal: Parts of a Whole | Brian Cleary

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A Fractions Goal: Parts of a Whole | Brian Cleary

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This book focuses on fractions and shows how you can split or divide  whole objects into parts. This is a great text to introduce new learners to what a fraction are, how they are used, and examples of real life objects they have probably had experience with before. This book uses colorful illustrations, fun characters, and catchy rhymes to get the reader engaged and thinking about the essential question.

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Full House: An Invitation to Fractions | Dayle Ann Dodds

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Full House: An Invitation to Fractions | Dayle Ann Dodds

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Full House is about the Strawberry Inn. Miss Bloom is the owner and loves visitors. During the story, she invites a colorful cast of characters until the entire inn is filled and it is a full house. Late at night Miss Bloom goes downstairs to find the guests are all eating dessert. Throughout the story, they cleverly introduce fractions into the conversation hooking readers to the unit’s essential question. This story inspires readers to get interested in math and start thinking about fractions, decimals, and percents.

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This story begins with a mom making cookies for her kids. They decide how to split the cookies until the doorbell rings. Each time the doorbell rings, more guests arrive. They decide how to best split the delicious cookies among the group using fractions. This story is a great way to get students hooked on the essential question for the unit. It discusses fractions and their relation to the real world. The story lends itself to several interactive activities in the classroom. One activity could be students splitting a tray of cookies between their classmates.

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CC.6.RP.3d Use ratio reasoning to convert measurement units; manipulate and transform units appropriately when multiplying or dividing quantities

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Math- Ratio Concepts and Reasoning

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How are fractions, decimals and percents related?