The order of factors in multiplication doesn’t change the product. Encourage students to expand their understanding of the commutative property of multiplication to include percents. Even though the commutative property doesn’t apply to division and there is division in calculating percentages, x% of y will always equal y% of x. The swap always works and can be used to make mental calculations of percentages even easier.
Well educated people understand and make use of percentages all the time, making this an important topic to study as a gateway to higher math, and as an essential life skill.
Sprinkling mathematical questions into lessons on other topics gives students more opportunities to use math during the school day. Math adds detail and important information to the topic being studied.
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As a math teacher, you spend a lot of time showing students facts, logic, and step by step proofs. This puts you in an excellent position to prank your students on April Fools' Day.
What makes Pi Day even more fun? Daylight Saving Time! Why not check your students' understanding of this strange, coordinated leap forward. Here are some resources for your class to help kids make sense of Daylight Saving Time.
How do you want your students to describe equivalent fractions? By rote definition memorized from the textbook? Nope! Wouldn't it be great if they used a combination of analogies, examples and counterexamples, as well as everyday language referencing various ways to model equivalence and sprinkled with academic vocabulary?
