Rather than teaching students an abstract process up front, the instructor uses real-world examples and visual aids to help the class with changing fractions to percents and the reverse.
These resources are part of KET's Math Instructional Strategies: Number Operations collection.
Download OnlyRelevance is an important aspect of learning for adult students. Concepts and skills that are taught abstractly or as processes are less apt to be retained and to be useful to the student. Guided practice followed by small group or individual work to solve problems with real-world applications provides the relevance that adult students need. One real-world application that most students understand well is money. Since our monetary system is decimal-based, money provides an understandable example of the equivalencies among fractions, decimals, and percents.
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