

A worksheet on direct and inverse proportion. Fifteen word problems are included. In these problems, students must determine whether the given amounts are directly or inversely proportional and then write and solve the appropriate equations to find the missing quantities.
Detailed solutions are provided.
Are your secondary maths students struggling to tell the difference between direct and inverse proportion? This comprehensive, zero-prep practice worksheet packet is the perfect resource to help your students master setting up and solving real-world proportion problems!
This packet provides excellent scaffolded practice that moves students smoothly from foundational direct ratio calculations to complex inverse constraints and algebraic function modeling.
What is Included?
- Direct Proportion Challenges: Word problems focusing on real-world scenarios where quantities change together, such as calculating hourly wages, cookie package weights, and fruit costs.
- Inverse Proportion Tasks: Rigorous questions testing scenarios where one variable increases as another decreases, including worker construction times, water tank pump deactivations, and vehicle travel speeds.
- Multi-Step Comparison Scenarios: Practical application problems requiring students to calculate total product volumes across different packaging sizes and run cost-efficiency comparisons to find the most economical option.
- Percentages and Discounts Integration: Real-world retail store prompts where students calculate markdowns, deduce original prices from final sales tags, and handle percentage math.
- Introductory Function Modeling: An advanced algebraic extension where students construct a formal linear equation expressing a final selling price as a function of an initial retail cost.
- Fully Worked Solutions Manual: A complete, step-by-step answers guide showing every cross-multiplication setup, constant of proportionality calculation, and inverse product formula for effortless marking or self-checking!
Perfect For:
- Independent Classroom Practice
- Homework Assignments
- GCSE Revision and Exam Prep
- Cover Lessons / Supply Teaching (Zero Prep Needed!)
- Small Group Intervention or Higher-Tier Extension Tasks
Curriculum Alignment:
- Key Stage 3 (KS3) Maths: Core proportional reasoning and ratios practice for students in Years 7, 8, and 9.
- Key Stage 4 (KS4) / GCSE Maths: Perfect core practice for both Foundation and Higher tier students covering the Ratios, Proportion, and Rates of Change curriculum strands.
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