Illustrative Math Alignment: Grade 7 Unit 4

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Percents

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This video applies percents to measure slopes or grades, using ratios for rise over run. Examples include road inclines, ski slopes, and cycling paths. Applications showcase percents in engineering, sports, and transportation, emphasizing their practicality in measuring inclines accurately.

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Percents

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The video demonstrates calculating tips and commissions using percentages. Examples include restaurant tips, real estate commissions, and catering costs. Applications focus on service industry calculations and earnings management.

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Percents

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This video covers tax calculations for purchases, property, and VAT. Examples include grocery bills, iPad purchases, and real estate property taxes. Applications highlight the importance of understanding tax rates for budgeting and financial management.

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Percents

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This video demonstrates solving for the whole when given a percent and a part. Examples include lemonade recipes, mixing paint, and counting UFOs. Techniques involve writing equations using decimals for percents and solving for the unknown total. Key vocabulary includes part, whole, and equation setup, with practical applications in recipes, art, and problem-solving.

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Percents

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This video teaches estimation techniques for calculating percents without a calculator. Examples include estimating fish populations, race participants, and cyclists. Visual aids like rectangles partitioned into fractions assist with rounding percents for quick calculations. Applications focus on efficient mental math for real-world approximations.

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Percents

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The video explores converting fractions to percents for simplified calculations. Examples include determining cargo contents, rose sales, and motorcycle proportions. Fraction-percent equivalence simplifies arithmetic and provides quick insights into ratios and totals. Applications include logistics, commerce, and urban planning.

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Percents

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This video demonstrates how to handle multiple percentage changes applied sequentially, including discounts and price fluctuations. Examples include double-discounted items, stock price variations, and gasoline price changes. Applications emphasize consolidating multiple percents into single calculations for efficiency in financial and retail scenarios.

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Percents

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This video covers calculating percent decreases in scenarios such as price reductions, vehicle depreciation, and cube dimension changes. Examples demonstrate the relationship between linear decreases and their exponential effects on surface area and volume. Applications include consumer goods, real estate, and geometry.

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Percents

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The video explains how to calculate percent increases, focusing on changes in school enrollments, asset values, and cube dimensions. Examples highlight the non-linear effects of changes on surface area and volume. Applications include finance, education, and geometry, emphasizing understanding growth trends.

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Percents

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The video discusses finding a percent difference when given a part that is not the focus of the percent. Scenarios include bus usage in schools, basketball free throws, and salmon spawning. It emphasizes adjusting percentages for complementary parts before solving equations. Applications highlight real-world uses in demographics, sports, and environmental studies.

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Percents

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The video explains how to find the percent of a number by converting percents to fractions or decimals and performing multiplication. Examples include voter turnout in elections, body water composition, and ocean salt concentration. Key concepts include percent conversion and checking calculations using reverse operations. Applications include real-world scenarios such as population statistics and scientific measurements.

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Percents

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The video explains the distinction between percent growth and multiple growth. Examples include doubling heights, stock price increases, and oil price changes. Applications emphasize clear understanding of percent versus multiplier concepts in finance and everyday math.

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Percents

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The video explores percent-based probabilities in scenarios like dice rolls. Examples include calculating probabilities of specific outcomes and estimating occurrences over multiple trials. Applications include games of chance and statistical analysis.

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Percents

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The video explains how to calculate simple interest using a formula involving principal, rate, and time. Examples include savings account growth, stock investments, and rare coin valuation. Applications include financial planning and historical item appraisal.

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Percents

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This video focuses on calculating what percent one number is of another, using ratios and fractions. Examples include ratios in milk composition and inverses such as determining larger percents over 100. Applications show comparisons and understanding proportional relationships in varied contexts.

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Percents

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Visual models such as grids and rectangles are used to represent percents and fractions for solving problems like transport usage, car distribution, and sales discounts. Examples include using grids to represent percentages of populations or products. Applications include educational tools and practical estimation.

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Ratios

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Ratios are connected to percentages in this video. Examples include finding percentages of colored socks or non-green items in collections. It develops a formula for converting part-to-whole ratios into percentages.

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Ratios

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The video covers practical applications of ratios for measuring slopes of roofs and ramps. Examples include comparing roof pitches, calculating base lengths of roofs, and determining ramp heights. Ratios provide clarity for gradual slopes.

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Ratios

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This video illustrates converting ratios to percents using visual aids like area models and grids. Examples include determining percentages of colored eggs, fruit types, and combinations of colored lights.

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Ratios, Proportions, and Percents

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Calculating tax involves determining the percentage amount to be added to the base price of a product or service.

Description

Calculating tax is a fundamental application of percentages in real-world scenarios. When purchasing goods or services, the total cost is often the sum of the base price and the tax applied. Understanding how to calculate tax is essential for budgeting and financial literacy.

For example, if a product costs $50 and the tax rate is 8%, the tax amount is calculated as 

50 × 0.08 = 4

Therefore, the total cost is 

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Ratios, Proportions, and Percents

Definition

Calculating tips involves determining the amount of money to give as a gratuity based on a percentage of the total bill.

Description

Calculating tips is a common use of percentages in everyday life, particularly in service industries such as dining. Tips are usually calculated as a percentage of the total bill, and understanding how to compute this is important for both customers and service providers. 

For instance, if a meal costs $80 and you want to leave a 15% tip, the tip amount is calculated as 

80 × 0.15 = 12

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Ratios, Proportions, and Percents

Definition

Dimensional analysis is a method used to convert one unit of measurement to another using conversion factors.

Description

Dimensional analysis is a powerful tool in mathematics and science for converting units and solving problems involving measurements. It uses the principle of multiplying by conversion factors to ensure that units cancel out appropriately, leading to the desired unit.

For example, to convert 50 meters per second to kilometers per hour, you use the conversion factors  1 meter = 0.001 kilometers and 1 hour = 3600 seconds: 

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Ratios, Proportions, and Percents

Definition

Ratios in simplest form are ratios that have been reduced to their smallest whole number terms.

Description

Reducing ratios to their simplest form is similar to the process of simplifying fractions, making it easier to compare and interpret data. A ratio is in simplest form when the greatest common divisor of the terms is 1.

For example, the ratio 8:12 simplifies to 2:3 by dividing both terms by their greatest common divisor, 4. This skill is essential for solving problems involving proportions and understanding relationships between quantities.

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Ratios, Proportions, and Percents

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The Golden Ratio is a special number approximately equal to 1.618, often denoted by the Greek letter φ (phi), which appears in various aspects of art, architecture, and nature.

This is a collection of clip art images that show an application of ratios and proportional reasoning in the context of chemical mixtures.

This is a collection of clip art images that show an application of ratios and proportional reasoning in the context of chemical mixtures.

This is a collection of clip art images that show an application of ratios and proportional reasoning in the context of chemical mixtures.

This is a collection of clip art images that show an application of ratios and proportional reasoning in the context of chemical mixtures.

This is a collection of clip art images that show an application of ratios and proportional reasoning in the context of chemical mixtures.

This is a collection of clip art images that show an application of ratios and proportional reasoning in the context of chemical mixtures.

This is a collection of clip art images that show an application of ratios and proportional reasoning in the context of chemical mixtures.

This is a collection of clip art images that show an application of ratios and proportional reasoning in the context of chemical mixtures.

This is a collection of clip art images that show an application of ratios and proportional reasoning in the context of chemical mixtures.

This is a collection of clip art images that show an application of ratios and proportional reasoning in the context of chemical mixtures.

This is a collection of clip art images that show an application of ratios and proportional reasoning in the context of chemical mixtures.

This is a collection of clip art images that show an application of ratios and proportional reasoning in the context of chemical mixtures.

This is a collection of clip art images that show an application of ratios and proportional reasoning in the context of chemical mixtures.

This is a collection of clip art images that show visual models for percents.

This is a collection of clip art images that show visual models for percents.

This is a collection of clip art images that show visual models for percents.

This is a collection of clip art images that show visual models for percents.

This is a collection of clip art images that show visual models for percents.

This is a collection of clip art images that show visual models for percents.

This is a collection of clip art images that show visual models for percents.

This is a collection of clip art images that show visual models for percents.

This is a collection of clip art images that show visual models for percents.

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Ratios, Proportions, and Percents

Description

The image illustrates the concept of an introductory image that visually connects percents with proportions, showcasing a grid and a formula (a / b = c / d) next to a hurdler and a large percent sign. The golden ratio a / b = 1.618 is also present, symbolizing relationships, and expands on this idea by showing that serves as a thematic and conceptual introduction to percents by emphasizing proportional relationships and the idea of ratios.

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Ratios, Proportions, and Percents

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The image illustrates the concept of fractions with different denominators: 1/4, 2/5, 5/6, and 5/8, each depicted as shaded portions of circles. and expands on this idea by showing that highlights the challenge of comparing fractions with different denominators, setting up the need for a common framework such as percents.

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Ratios, Proportions, and Percents

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The image illustrates the concept of and expands on the previous image by comparing and ordering the fractions using inequality symbols: 1/4 < 2/5 < 5/8 < 5/6. This image expands on this idea by emphasizing the difficulty of comparing fractions and transitions to the rationale for using percents as a standard for comparison.

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Ratios, Proportions, and Percents

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The image illustrates the concept of converting the fractions 1/4, 2/5, 5/6, and 5/8 into percents (25%, 40%, 83.33%, 62.5%) with their corresponding pie diagrams. It expands on this idea by showing that introduces percents as an easier method for comparing fractions by representing them with a common denominator of 100.