The Upper Grades Standards Edition Unit 7 (Fractions, Decimals & Percents Level 1) works toward building a strong foundation with fractions, decimals, and percents. Place value is emphasized throughout the unit. Using manipulatives and concrete models along with scaffolded instruction, students learn fraction concepts, equality and inequality, mixed numbers, and lay the groundwork for application in computation and word problems. The mathematical standards of identifying and making use of patterns and structure maximizes the probability of student success. Formal testing procedures are reinforced helping the students become accustomed to a mixture of writing answers and bubbling answers. A variety of questioning styles are used in the pre- and post-tests.