Direct & Inverse Proportion Worksheets | Tables & Word Problems

Simplify your proportional reasoning unit with this comprehensive, no-prep direct and inverse proportion worksheet bundle! This resource is perfectly designed to help your secondary math students master both types of variations, moving fluidly from identifying relationships in data tables to sketching graphs and solving complex, multi-step real-world word problems.

Whether you are teaching KS3, KS4 (GCSE / iGCSE), Year 7-11, or foundational algebra classes, these structured practice sheets offer a complete range of problem types to ensure true skill mastery.

What is Included in This Bundle?
This package contains a massive collection of student practice pages along with comprehensive, step-by-step worked answer keys that show exactly how to find constant ratios, verify constant products, and set up proportional equations.
Direct Proportion Practice

• Analyzing coordinate tables to check if variables are directly proportional and calculating the coefficient of proportionality.
• Calculating and filling in missing values within directly proportional data sets.
• Finding constants of proportionality, writing linear equations, and sketching the functions on provided graph grids.
• Solving multi-step scenarios involving hourly wages, currency conversion (Euros to Dollars), mass conversions (grams to kilograms), speed/distance metrics, and recipe scaling.
• Calculating original prices, sale prices, and functions involving percentage store discounts.
  Inverse Proportion Practice
• Testing tables to see if quantities vary inversely by calculating and verifying a constant product.
• Finding and filling in missing values within inversely proportional data sets.
• Solving labour and time scenarios involving factory workers and machinery timelines, travel metrics with speed changes (using kilometres per hour), resource provisions for changing populations, and automated output rates.
  Mixed Direct & Inverse Review
• Analyzing data tables to determine if relationships are direct, inverse, or neither.
• Mixed review tasks challenging students to identify the type of proportion first before calculating solutions for real-world scenarios.

Why Teachers Love This Resource:

• Ready to Print & Go: No prep required! Simply print the worksheets and you are completely ready for a cover lesson, classwork assignment, homework, or math revision session.
• Step-by-Step Solutions Included: Save hours of marking time with a fully worked-out answer key that clearly maps out intermediate calculations. Students can also use it to self-assess.
• Clean and Uncluttered Design: Problems are laid out beautifully with plenty of white space and built-in graph grids so students do not feel overwhelmed.
• Metric & Global Vocabulary: Features clean layouts with metric measurements and universal terms, making it fantastic for the UK National Curriculum, Australia, and international school classrooms.
  Educational Standards Covered:
• UK National Curriculum / GCSE: Ratio, proportion and rates of change. Understand that (x) and (y) are inversely proportional when their product is constant; solve direct and inverse proportion problems using algebraic equations, graphical methods, and multiplicative reasoning; solve multi-step compound word problems involving percentages and unit adjustments.
• US Common Core Standards (for reference): 7.RP.A.2, 7.RP.A.2.A, 7.RP.A.2.B, 7.RP.A.2.C, 7.RP.A.3, and 8.EE.B.5.