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Percentages inquiry

This inquiry lesson is aimed to extend learning and explore students understanding of percentages as they verify; test other cases; make conjectures; and reason, generalise and prove. Students can work collaboratively to determine the answer to various 'percentage of' questions, comparing their answers to other prompts and statements. Students then identify commonalities and patterns in their answers. Many examples of students' responses to the prompt are provided for analysis. Teachers can use the inquiry as a teaching tool and to probe questions to assess student understanding.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 7
Audience	Student, Teacher
Purpose	Additional learning support, Assessment advice, Assessment task, Content knowledge, Student task, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies, Extension
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Collaborative learning, Differentiated teaching, Growth mindset, Feedback, Mathematics investigation, Metacognitive strategies, Questioning, Structuring lessons, Worked examples
Keywords	percentage
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy
Strand and focus	Algebra, Number, Build understanding, Apply understanding
Topics	Fractions, Operating with number, Percentage, Decimals, Multiplication and division
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M7N06 Use the 4 operations with positive rational numbers including fractions, decimals and percentages to solve problems using efficient calculation strategies
Numeracy progression	Additive strategies (P10) Multiplicative strategies (P10) Proportional thinking (P2) Number and place value (P10) Interpreting fractions (P8)
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Organisation	Inquiry Maths
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