Hello there! My PLN focuses on students engaging in a real world experience that will culminate understanding over several objectives in the content area of math. Welcome to my Black Friday Blowout Unit. My name is Malissa St.Clair. I am a 7th grade math educator. I love to bring real world experiences to my students so they are able to truly immerse themselves in the learning process and have life long mastery. I have been teaching for 18 years at the middle school level. If you are looking for a great unit that will give your students a hands on experience, this is for you.
This unit allows students to navigate through their understanding and use prior knowledge to gain mastery in finding discounts, double discounts, taxes, and tips. We all love a great Black Friday experience. This unit will tie in the fun, excitement and thrills of Black Friday with using number sense, and proportional reasoning in order to grab the best deals. Students will leave this unit with a strong mastery of percents, rational numbers, proportions, and ratios, percent of change, percent of decrease and percent of increase.