Unit Plan
EDCP 342A Unit planning: Rationale and overview for planning a 3 to 4 week unit of work in secondary school mathematics Your name: Ashley WU School, grade & course: R.A McMath Secondary, Grade 8 Math Topic of unit: Percent, Ratio and Rate Preplaning questions: (1) Why do we teach this unit to secondary school students? Research and talk about the following: Why is this topic included in the curriculum? Why is it important that students learn it? What learning do you hope they will take with them from this? What is intrinsically interesting, useful, beautiful about this topic? The big idea of this topic, according to the curriculum, is to know about how numbers present, compare and describe the quantity of ratios, rates, and percents. In my point of view, this topic is included in the curriculum in order for students to know about what percentage and ratios stands for in their daily life and in some research results. With this point of knowledge, they are able ...