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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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 7
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Proportion, rates and ratios
- Audience
- Teachers Students
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M7N08
- Numeracy progression
- Interpreting fractions (P8) Multiplicative strategies (P9) Proportional thinking (P3)
- Publisher
- Dan Meyer
- Copyright
- © Dan Meyer. Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0
- Keywords
- fraction
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