Scaling in Real Life | Ratio & Proportion | Lesson Notes, Slides & Activities
This lesson allows students to apply their understanding of ratio and proportion to real life scenarios, scaling recipes and currencies for hotel guests - perfect for developing an understanding of ratio and proportion through clear explanations, thought-provoking challenges and real-life scenarios.
Knowledge and Skills Covered:
Knowledge:
I know that proportion involves two ratios that are equivalent, maintaining the same relationship regardless of scale. In this lesson, we focus on the multiplicative balance required to keep recipes tasting the same or money values fair.
Skills:
I can apply proportional reasoning to adjust measurements. In this lesson, we focus on finding the unit rate to scale quantities up or down accurately.
What’s Included?
Your download includes everything you need for a successful lesson:
Unit Overview Notes: Outlines the knowledge, skills, and pre-requisites for the entire unit. This lesson is part of a 5 lesson unit, exploring ‘Can bigger ever be the same?’
Detailed Lesson Walkthrough/Notes: Includes a step-by-step guide with guiding questions and key discussion points.
Guiding Questions: Great opportunities for AfL throughout your lesson, designed to help your students draw on their previous learning and make purposeful connections.
Lesson Slides: Engaging slides to guide your lesson.
Lesson Activities: Includes accessible, low-floor high ceiling activities that all students can access through adaptive teaching, leading to improved confidence. There are also opportunities embedded in the lesson for further challenge to extend learners further and outlined strategies to enable learners.
Exit Ticket: A purposeful closing task which allows students to demonstrate their understanding, skills and knowledge - a great opportunity for AfL.
This download provides both the Editable PPT Version and the PDF Version.
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