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Proportion
This module from the AMSI 'The Improving Mathematics Education in Schools (TIMES) project' is for teachers who wish to consolidate their content knowledge on the topic of proportion and how to use and illustrate proportional relationships. There are sections that provide history and context for the topic, as well as exercises and examples of how to present and explain the concepts to students.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8 Year 9
- Purpose
- Planning Curriculum
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Proportion, rates and ratios
- Audience
- Teachers School leaders
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Numeracy progression
- Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P7, P8) Proportional thinking (P6, P7) Understanding geometric properties (P7) Understanding money (P8, P9)
- Publisher
- AMSI
- Copyright
- © The University of Melbourne. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0.
- Keywords
- relation
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