Using Children's Books to Understand Probability, Percent, Ratios, and Circles
This
unit plan is going to encompass four main topics and then relating
them back together. The first day we are going to go over probability
with word problems presented in the book Probably
Pistachio .
This will be a great opportunity for the students to be introduced to
basic probability and the pulling out of information from word
problems. The second day we are going to talk about Percent using the
book Twizzlers
Percentages Book and
an activity using Twizzlers. This will allow them to be comfortable
to taking multiple items and turning them into proportions of the
whole. The third day we are going to talk about ratios using the
book Pythagoras
and the Ratios: A Math Adventure. This
will allow them to become comfortable doing two things. They are
pulling information out and turning it into ratios and turning a
percent into a ratio. The fourth day we are going to use the