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Teaching Resource: Percentages

Subject taught
- Math

Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeVSmq1Nrpw

Type of Product
- Videos

Language Skills Developed
- Listening
- Reading
- Speaking
- Writing

Transferable/Scientific Skills Developed
Student will develop self-motivation, analytical skills, problem-solving skills.

Description
General aims: Student will have basic knowledge about percentages and will be able to do basic mathematical operations with percentages: convert percent into fraction or decimal. One will know basic vocabulary in English connected with percentages. Student will develop positive learning habits such as organisational and problem-solving skills. Linguistic aims: - to read and listen English with ease - to understand content - to communicate watching experiences - to learn new vocabulary from watched videos - to master tools for gathering information - to express understanding and experiences - to enable students to understand topic correctly - to develop academic language - to translate words connected with percentages in English into the mother tongue using one’s own words. Subject specific aims: - student knows the definition of percent - student is able to express a percent as a decimal - student is able to express a decimal as a percent - student knows what means 0% - student knows what means 100% - student gains confidence in their math skills - student is better prepared for standardized testing. Target group age: Students from primary school (12-13 years old), before using the resource they need to know how to do basic operation with decimals, how to convert fraction into decimal. What is more, this video can be used by anyone who wants to do mathematical operations with percents, also by grade teachers who wants to teach percentage using English. Level of competence in English (CEFR) B1/B1+ Time required to use the resource with the students: The teacher can use the resource with the students for one lessons. Video lasts 8:52 minutes. How to use it Before using the video during one’s classes, the students should be able to do basic operation with fractions and decimals. The teacher asks students to watch the video and does pauses in certain moments to give students opportunity to make notes, asks questions and develop some problems presented in the video. During lessons the teacher should ask the student in English: “What is the percent?”, “Do you know the symbol of the percent?” “What does mean 0%?”,“What does mean 100%?”, “How to change fraction into decimal?”, “How to change percent into fraction?”, “What kind of tricks presented in the video do you remember?”, “How to change percent into decimal?” The students give the answers with the examples. The teacher should give them a feedback and show students more examples on the black table. For example, the teacher can asks students to work in pairs and rewrite 15% as a fraction and a decimals. The teacher highlights some new words for students in English and students should find the translation these words into the mother tongue and write down the new words in English in the notebook with the right translation in their own words. The teacher can asks students to remember words in English like: convert, fraction, improper fraction, decimal. Students should practice themselves. The teacher provides more exercises, checks the answers and gives feedback. Possible difficulties for the students Students who have poor knowledge of English can have problems with understanding the content. Students who has problems doing basic operations with decimals can face difficulties in solving math problems with percentages which are introduced in the video which is recommended.

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