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Number Sense 1.7: Students will determine the discount, markup, and commission of items using percent


 * Objective:** Using the Qwizdom remotes, students will demonstrate their level of mastery with finding discount, markup, and commission.


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Qwizdom student response systems Qwizdom presentation with pre-built slides for discount, markup, and commission This tool is a complete integration of technology with the students interacting with the content through personal remote answering devices and the instructor being able to immediately alter instruction to ensure the highest level of acquisition and retention.

-- Warmup design around students converting fractions to decimals and percents (3/7 and 1/5). Once attendance has been taken, we will review the warmup and its relevance for the day's lesson. -- Lesson Introduction: Pass out **Qwizdom remotes** and have students recall their student login number. As this is going on, we will do a brief review of how to find discount, markup, and commission. We will work on two problems of each and use Think-Pair-Share to have students respond and interact with the content. --Student Work: Using the slides of the **Qwizdom presentation**, students will determine the discount, markup, and commission of various problems. Based on the progress of the class (the graphs that show for each problem), we will either spend more time discussing the content or move to the next problem. --Closure: Students will write a complete sentence on how to find each of discount, markup, and commission in a way that makes sense to them. We will use small group share to give students an opportunity to hear other responses. --Ticket Out: Using their score on the assessment as a barometer, students will justify their grade on the activity in a complete sentence. The results of the quiz will be used to assess the level of student understanding for this standard. The problems are inclusive of what the students need to know, so this will serve as an adequate representation of their comfort with NS 1.7.
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The following is a Pre-Test and Post-Test for the Number Sense 1.7 standard.

Abstract

There should be no surprise that technology enhances a child's opportunity to retain and master a standard. However, there are too many teachers that use technology for the sake of novelty or to pacify their students' requests to make the class more fun. Using the technology in the right way at the right time is crucial to engaging students and getting the most out of the instruction that we provide. With that being said, my students took a pre-test (we define these a bit different than others) after the initial instruction and did fairly poorly. In order to re-teach the lesson, I used the Interwrite Pad and a Qwizdom activity to quickly assess where the specific needs of the students were. Once they had been addressed (difficulty in knowing when it is add/subtract or just finding the amount was a big deal) and discussed, we shifted the lesson immediately to cover the concerns of the students. As the table below will show, the results were immediately effective across the board and students were much more satisfied with their productivity. The technology allowed the class to be formed by their needs rather than the comfort level of the instructor’s lesson plans. Overall, the technology provided an instant and seamless representation of where the instruction should be heading. What I was able to do with the technology is find out how all students, including the shy or uninvolved students, felt about the process of finding discount, markup, and commission and every step in between. As an example, the first discount problem was broken up into parts and students were spontaneously surveyed on each portion. It was evident during the in-class assessment that students were having difficulty with the multiplication of decimals and converting decimals to percents. This was resolved mid-stride and students are able to move on seamlessly.


 * || Pre-Test  ||  Post-Test  ||  Change  ||
 * Total Students ||  37  ||  37  ||  --  ||
 * Proficient Students ||  17  ||  29  ||  +12  ||
 * English Language Learners Proficient ||  7  ||  18  ||  +11  ||
 * Average Score ||  2.8  ||  4.3  ||  +1.5  ||