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Nana's chocolate milk
In this Three-Act task, students are shown a video of Dan making Nana's chocolate milk. The proportion of milk to powder is incorrect. The task is for the students to calculate how to fix this error.
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| Year level(s) | Year 7 |
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| Purpose | Teaching resource, Student task |
| Format | Web page |
| Keywords | ratio, proportion, fraction |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Number, Build understanding, Apply understanding |
| Topics | Proportion, rates and ratios |
| AC: Mathematics content descriptions |
ACMNA173
Recognise and solve problems involving simple ratios
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| National numeracy learning progression |
Comparing units (ratios, rates and proportion)
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CoU2
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Dan Meyer |
| Copyright | © Dan Meyer. Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0 |
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