1c.++Understandings

Understandings
**Understandings:** Students will understand that...
 * modeling (representing) fractions, decimals and percents is one method of understanding the relationships between fractions, decimals and percents.
 * fractions, decimals and percents are not alway helpful in understanding real-world problems.
 * equivalent fractions, decimals and percents (of the same value) are different ways to express that same portion of a whole.

**Non essential information (worth being familiar with):**
 * Fractions are one way of writing ratios
 * Fractions are proportions
 * Decimals are based on ten and why
 * Percents are based on hundred and why

**Prerequisite knowledge and skills (Important to know and do):**
 * Basic understanding of fractions and the roles of the numerator & denominator
 * Percent means “out of 100”
 * Understanding of the place values after the decimal
 * Multiplication, division, addition, subtraction
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Model fractions, decimals and percents

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">**Big Ideas and Core Tasks (Enduring Understanding):** <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Order and compare fractions, decimals and percents
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Understand and create equivalent fractions, decimals and percents
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Convert between fractions, decimals and percents
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Solve for the fractional, decimal or percentage of a number