SAT Math Lesson Plan 8: Percents and Percent Change

This 45-minute SAT Math lesson focuses on mastering percents, percent increase and decrease, percent error, and reverse percent problems. Students will learn to convert between fractions, decimals, and percents, and apply key percent formulas to real-world and test-style problems. The lesson includes a warm-up activity, five instructional examples, a five-problem review section, and a 10-question SAT-style quiz with detailed solutions. Students also learn how to recognize percent-related language on the SAT and determine the correct solving strategy. These concepts are part of the Problem Solving and Data Analysis domain, which accounts for approximately 29% of SAT Math questions. This lesson is part of a 35-lesson series that prepares students for every major concept tested on the SAT.

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