Lesson Plan: Compound Percentages of Amounts
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to use simple percentages like 1%, 10%, and 50% to find compound percentages of amounts.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- find percentages of amounts using multiplication and division,
- find percentages of amounts by adding together known percentages,
- find percentages of amounts by subtracting from known percentages.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- finding , , , and of an amount.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- finding percentages of fractions or decimals,
- finding percentages of amounts where the answers are fractions or decimals.
