apt4Maths: DIRECT PROPORTION - RECIPE STYLE PROBLEMS PowerPoint (6 of 8 on Ratios and Proportion)

PowerPoint Presentation on Direct Proportion – Recipe-style Problems (10 slides) for GCSE (and Key Stage 3) Maths: Explains how to solve direct proportion problems in the context of recipes. It has been written by a highly experienced teacher (of 25+ years), senior examiner and reviser for Maths and Stats examinations. It includes:

Lesson objectives
Step-by-step explanations of the subject matter
Examples to aid understanding
Questions to check understanding
Answers to questions, with explanations
Suggestions regarding which topic(s) should be moved on to next.

It is 1 of a set of 8 PowerPoint Presentations on ‘Ratios and Proportion’ that APT Initiatives has published for GCSE (and Key Stage 3) Maths. The full set of 8 PowerPoints (101 slides, excluding Title Pages) covers the following topics on ‘Ratios and Proportion’:

01 Ratios – An Introduction (15 slides): Explains what a ratio is, how it is written, how a ratio can be simplified or an equivalent ratio can be found.
02 Using Ratios (16 slides): Reviews simplifying ratios and finding equivalent ratios, before explaining how to use ratios to solve problems and how to find unitary ratios.
03 Ratio Division (9 slides): Explains how to express ratios as fractions and how to divide an amount in a given ratio.
04 Direct Proportion – Exchange Rate Problems (12 slides): Explains how to solve direct proportion problems in the context of exchange rates.
05 Direct Proportion – Best Buy Problems (13 slides): Explains how to solve direct proportion problems in the context of best buy situations.
06 Direct Proportion – Recipe-style Problems (10 slides): Explains how to solve direct proportion problems in the context of recipes.
07 Inverse Proportion (10 slides): Explains how to solve inverse proportion problems.
08 Proportionality (16 slides): Explains direct and inverse proportionality, how to find the constant in proportionality equations, how to solve proportionality problems, and what proportionality looks like on graphs.

Note: Ratio and proportion may also come up when teaching scale diagrams, similarity and vectors.

These PowerPoint Presentations are one of several sets of PowerPoint Presentations which relate to the ‘Ratio, Proportion and Rates of Change’ section of the Maths specifications.

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