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Lesson 11: Percents
Victor 900 Calculator Teacher’s Guide 50
TEACHER’S GUIDE
Lesson 11: Percents
Overview Use the calculator for situations involving sales taxes,
discounts, or other percent problems.
Teacher Materials “Percents” and “More Percents” transparencies.
Student Materials Pencil, Calculator, and ”Would You Like To Own an
Amusement Park?” worksheet.
Keys Introduced % .
Teaching Notes Remember the % . key acts like the = . key so = .
does not need to be pressed at any point when doing
percents
For the game where the students have to make up an
Amusement Park and have to figure out what the
discounted price with tax will be, is a way for the
students to look at a real life situation. They use their
new knowledge of percents to figure out the discounts
that they one day might be using and then they will
know how much money they are saving.