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Description
- Overview:
- This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to: translate between decimal and fraction notation, particularly when the decimals are repeating; create and solve simple linear equations to find the fractional equivalent of a repeating decimal; and understand the effect of multiplying a decimal by a power of 10.
- Level:
- Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Middle School, High School
- Grades:
- Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
- Material Type:
- Assessment, Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- Shell Center for Mathematical Education, U.C. Berkeley
- Provider Set:
- Mathematics Assessment Project (MAP)
- Date Added:
- 04/26/2013
- License:
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0
- Media Format:
- Downloadable docs, Text/HTML
Comments
Standards
Cluster: Know that there are numbers that are not rational, and approximate them by rational numbers
Standard: Know that numbers that are not rational are called irrational. Understand informally that every number has a decimal expansion; for rational numbers show that the decimal expansion repeats eventually, and convert a decimal expansion which repeats eventually into a rational number.
Degree of Alignment: 3 Superior (1 user)
Cluster: Work with radicals and integer exponents
Standard: Use square root and cube root symbols to represent solutions to equations of the form x^2 = p and x^3 = p, where p is a positive rational number. Evaluate square roots of small perfect squares and cube roots of small perfect cubes. Know that √2 is irrational.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Work with radicals and integer exponents
Standard: Use numbers expressed in the form of a single digit times an integer power of 10 to estimate very large or very small quantities, and to express how many times as much one is than the other. For example, estimate the population of the United States as 3 × 10^8 and the population of the world as 7 × 10^9, and determine that the world population is more than 20 times larger.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Work with radicals and integer exponents
Standard: Know and apply the properties of integer exponents to generate equivalent numerical expressions. For example, 3^2 × 3^(–5) = 3^(–3) = 1/(3^3) = 1/27.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Work with radicals and integer exponents
Standard: Perform operations with numbers expressed in scientific notation, including problems where both decimal and scientific notation are used. Use scientific notation and choose units of appropriate size for measurements of very large or very small quantities (e.g., use millimeters per year for seafloor spreading). Interpret scientific notation that has been generated by technology.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Know that there are numbers that are not rational, and approximate them by rational numbers
Standard: Use rational approximations of irrational numbers to compare the size of irrational numbers, locate them approximately on a number line diagram, and estimate the value of expressions (e.g., π^2). For example, by truncating the decimal expansion of √2 (square root of 2), show that √2 is between 1 and 2, then between 1.4 and 1.5, and explain how to continue on to get better approximations.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Mathematical practices
Standard: Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Mathematically proficient students make sense of the quantities and their relationships in problem situations. Students bring two complementary abilities to bear on problems involving quantitative relationships: the ability to decontextualize—to abstract a given situation and represent it symbolically and manipulate the representing symbols as if they have a life of their own, without necessarily attending to their referents—and the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Mathematical practices
Standard: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Mathematically proficient students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution. They analyze givens, constraints, relationships, and goals. They make conjectures about the form and meaning of the solution and plan a solution pathway rather than simply jumping into a solution attempt. They consider analogous problems, and try special cases and simpler forms of the original problem in order to gain insight into its solution. They monitor and evaluate their progress and change course if necessary. Older students might, depending on the context of the problem, transform algebraic expressions or change the viewing window on their graphing calculator to get the information they need. Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends. Younger students might rely on using concrete objects or pictures to help conceptualize and solve a problem. Mathematically proficient students check their answers to problems using a different method, and they continually ask themselves, “Does this make sense?” They can understand the approaches of others to solving complex problems and identify correspondences between different approaches.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Mathematical practices
Standard: Attend to precision. Mathematically proficient students try to communicate precisely to others. They try to use clear definitions in discussion with others and in their own reasoning. They state the meaning of the symbols they choose, including using the equal sign consistently and appropriately. They are careful about specifying units of measure, and labeling axes to clarify the correspondence with quantities in a problem. They calculate accurately and efficiently, express numerical answers with a degree of precision appropriate for the problem context. In the elementary grades, students give carefully formulated explanations to each other. By the time they reach high school they have learned to examine claims and make explicit use of definitions.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard: Analyze and solve pairs of simultaneous linear equations.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard: Solve real-world and mathematical problems leading to two linear equations in two variables. For example, given coordinates for two pairs of points, determine whether the line through the first pair of points intersects the line through the second pair.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard: Solve linear equations in one variable.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Understand the connections between proportional relationships, lines, and linear equations
Standard: Graph proportional relationships, interpreting the unit rate as the slope of the graph. Compare two different proportional relationships represented in different ways. For example, compare a distance-time graph to a distance-time equation to determine which of two moving objects has greater speed.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Understand the connections between proportional relationships, lines, and linear equations
Standard: Use similar triangles to explain why the slope m is the same between any two distinct points on a non-vertical line in the coordinate plane; derive the equation y =mx for a line through the origin and the equation y = mx + b for a line intercepting the vertical axis at b.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard: Understand that solutions to a system of two linear equations in two variables correspond to points of intersection of their graphs, because points of intersection satisfy both equations simultaneously.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard: Give examples of linear equations in one variable with one solution, infinitely many solutions, or no solutions. Show which of these possibilities is the case by successively transforming the given equation into simpler forms, until an equivalent equation of the form x = a, a = a, or a = b results (where a and b are different numbers).
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard: Solve linear equations with rational number coefficients, including equations whose solutions require expanding expressions using the distributive property and collecting like terms.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard: Solve systems of two linear equations in two variables algebraically, and estimate solutions by graphing the equations. Solve simple cases by inspection. For example, 3x + 2y = 5 and 3x + 2y = 6 have no solution because 3x + 2y cannot simultaneously be 5 and 6.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Expressions and Equations
Standard: Understand the connections between proportional relationships, lines, and linear equations
Indicator: Use similar triangles to explain why the slope m is the same between any two distinct points on a non-vertical line in the coordinate plane; derive the equation y =mx for a line through the origin and the equation y = mx + b for a line intercepting the vertical axis at b.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Expressions and Equations
Standard: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Indicator: Solve linear equations with rational number coefficients, including equations whose solutions require expanding expressions using the distributive property and collecting like terms.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Expressions and Equations
Standard: Understand the connections between proportional relationships, lines, and linear equations
Indicator: Graph proportional relationships, interpreting the unit rate as the slope of the graph. Compare two different proportional relationships represented in different ways. For example, compare a distance-time graph to a distance-time equation to determine which of two moving objects has greater speed.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Mathematical Practices
Standard: Mathematical practices
Indicator: Attend to precision. Mathematically proficient students try to communicate precisely to others. They try to use clear definitions in discussion with others and in their own reasoning. They state the meaning of the symbols they choose, including using the equal sign consistently and appropriately. They are careful about specifying units of measure, and labeling axes to clarify the correspondence with quantities in a problem. They calculate accurately and efficiently, express numerical answers with a degree of precision appropriate for the problem context. In the elementary grades, students give carefully formulated explanations to each other. By the time they reach high school they have learned to examine claims and make explicit use of definitions.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Expressions and Equations
Standard: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Indicator: Solve linear equations in one variable.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: The Number System
Standard: Know that there are numbers that are not rational, and approximate them by rational numbers
Indicator: Use rational approximations of irrational numbers to compare the size of irrational numbers, locate them approximately on a number line diagram, and estimate the value of expressions (e.g., ěŰ^2). For example, by truncating the decimal expansion of ‰ö_2 (square root of 2), show that ‰ö_2 is between 1 and 2, then between 1.4 and 1.5, and explain how to continue on to get better approximations.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Expressions and Equations
Standard: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Indicator: Give examples of linear equations in one variable with one solution, infinitely many solutions, or no solutions. Show which of these possibilities is the case by successively transforming the given equation into simpler forms, until an equivalent equation of the form x = a, a = a, or a = b results (where a and b are different numbers).
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: The Number System
Standard: Know that there are numbers that are not rational, and approximate them by rational numbers
Indicator: Know that numbers that are not rational are called irrational. Understand informally that every number has a decimal expansion; for rational numbers show that the decimal expansion repeats eventually, and convert a decimal expansion which repeats eventually into a rational number.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Expressions and Equations
Standard: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Indicator: Understand that solutions to a system of two linear equations in two variables correspond to points of intersection of their graphs, because points of intersection satisfy both equations simultaneously.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Expressions and Equations
Standard: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Indicator: Solve systems of two linear equations in two variables algebraically, and estimate solutions by graphing the equations. Solve simple cases by inspection. For example, 3x + 2y = 5 and 3x + 2y = 6 have no solution because 3x + 2y cannot simultaneously be 5 and 6.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Expressions and Equations
Standard: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Indicator: Solve real-world and mathematical problems leading to two linear equations in two variables. For example, given coordinates for two pairs of points, determine whether the line through the first pair of points intersects the line through the second pair.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Expressions and Equations
Standard: Work with radicals and integer exponents
Indicator: Know and apply the properties of integer exponents to generate equivalent numerical expressions. For example, 3^2 x 3^(-5) = 3^(-3) = 1/(3^3) = 1/27.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Expressions and Equations
Standard: Work with radicals and integer exponents
Indicator: Use numbers expressed in the form of a single digit times an integer power of 10 to estimate very large or very small quantities, and to express how many times as much one is than the other. For example, estimate the population of the United States as 3 x 10^8 and the population of the world as 7 x 10^9, and determine that the world population is more than 20 times larger.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Expressions and Equations
Standard: Work with radicals and integer exponents
Indicator: Use square root and cube root symbols to represent solutions to equations of the form x^2 = p and x^3 = p, where p is a positive rational number. Evaluate square roots of small perfect squares and cube roots of small perfect cubes. Know that ‰ö_2 is irrational.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Mathematical Practices
Standard: Mathematical practices
Indicator: Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Mathematically proficient students make sense of the quantities and their relationships in problem situations. Students bring two complementary abilities to bear on problems involving quantitative relationships: the ability to decontextualize"Óto abstract a given situation and represent it symbolically and manipulate the representing symbols as if they have a life of their own, without necessarily attending to their referents"Óand the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Expressions and Equations
Standard: Work with radicals and integer exponents
Indicator: Perform operations with numbers expressed in scientific notation, including problems where both decimal and scientific notation are used. Use scientific notation and choose units of appropriate size for measurements of very large or very small quantities (e.g., use millimeters per year for seafloor spreading). Interpret scientific notation that has been generated by technology.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Expressions and Equations
Standard: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Indicator: Analyze and solve pairs of simultaneous linear equations.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Mathematical Practices
Standard: Mathematical practices
Indicator: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Mathematically proficient students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution. They analyze givens, constraints, relationships, and goals. They make conjectures about the form and meaning of the solution and plan a solution pathway rather than simply jumping into a solution attempt. They consider analogous problems, and try special cases and simpler forms of the original problem in order to gain insight into its solution. They monitor and evaluate their progress and change course if necessary. Older students might, depending on the context of the problem, transform algebraic expressions or change the viewing window on their graphing calculator to get the information they need. Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends. Younger students might rely on using concrete objects or pictures to help conceptualize and solve a problem. Mathematically proficient students check their answers to problems using a different method, and they continually ask themselves, "Does this make sense?"ť They can understand the approaches of others to solving complex problems and identify correspondences between different approaches.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: The Number System
Standard: Know that there are numbers that are not rational, and approximate them by rational numbers.
Indicator: Know that numbers that are not rational are called irrational. Understand informally that every number has a decimal expansion; for rational numbers show that the decimal expansion repeats eventually, and convert a decimal expansion which repeats eventually into a rational number. Explore the real number system and its appropriate usage in real-world situations.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: The Number System
Standard: Know that there are numbers that are not rational, and approximate them by rational numbers.
Indicator: Use rational approximations of irrational numbers to compare the size of irrational numbers, locate them approximately on a number line diagram, and estimate the value of expressions.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Evaluations
Achieve OER
Average Score (3 Points Possible)| Degree of Alignment | 3 (1 user) |
| Quality of Explanation of the Subject Matter | 3 (1 user) |
| Utility of Materials Designed to Support Teaching | 3 (1 user) |
| Quality of Assessments | N/A |
| Quality of Technological Interactivity | N/A |
| Quality of Instructional and Practice Exercises | N/A |
| Opportunities for Deeper Learning | N/A |
EQuIP Rubric
Average Score (3 Points Possible)| ELA | Math |
| Alignment to the Rigor of the CCSS | N/A |
| Key Shifts in the CCSS | N/A |
| Instructional Supports | N/A |
| Assessment | N/A |
| Overall Rating for the Lesson/Unit | N |
| Alignment to the Rigor of the CCSS | 3 (1 user) |
| Key Shifts in the CCSS | 3 (1 user) |
| Instructional Supports | 3 (1 user) |
| Assessment | 3 (1 user) |
| Overall Rating for the Lesson/Unit | E (1 user) |
Tags (12)
- Mathematics
- Algebra and Calculus
- Numbers and Operations
- Algebra
- CCSS
- Common Core Math
- Common Core PD
- Decimals
- Fractions
- Linear Equations
- ODE Learning
- Ratios and Proportions
on Nov 03, 12:08pm Evaluation
Math: Key Shifts in the CCSS: Superior (3)
There are no real world applications, but there are many opportunities for students to problem solve independently as well as together. There are lots of areas for discussion with focus on using terminology and explaining thinking.
on Nov 03, 12:08pm Evaluation
Math: Overall Rating for the Lesson/Unit: Superior (3)
I teach 8th grade math for two periods. I used this with both of my classes. I used it more with my lower group of students. We had already done introductory work so I jumped in with the Repeating Decimals pre-assessment as a full-class activity and teaching resource.
This particular worksheet was very helpful when a parent had their child do the work different. I was able to clarify the reasoning and directions and help both the student and parent.
This lesson was very well written with clear directions for students and plenty of opportunities to problem solve and work with each other. The students had to be able to explain their choices on the fraction/decimal/percentage chart and be able to argue their choices. I did not use every piece of the provided work because I had already started this work with my students, but it was very helpful in solidifying their understanding.
This is a lesson/assessment unit. There are many resources for teachers to implement the lesson; Detailed lesson plans, ppt, student worksheets, follow up worksheets, and card sets for in-class investigations. It addresses CCSS 8.NS.1 - rational numbers have decimal expansions that terminate in 0s or eventually repeat. This is a good lesson to have students learn how to write repeating decimals as a fraction.