Proportional reasoning video
This video uses the scenario of two friends wanting to cater for a large group of people for an upcoming celebration. The recipes used will make a certain quantity or serving size. By scaling the recipes for mini pizzas bases and cake pops, the friends can make the exact number of bases and cake pops needed. This shows that numbers can be scaled either up or down, to suit any serving size.
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- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 7 Year 8
- Purpose
- Student activities
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Fractions Proportion, rates and ratios
- Audience
- Students
- Format
- Video
- Numeracy progression
- Additive strategies (P10) Interpreting fractions (P8) Multiplicative strategies (P9, P10) Proportional thinking (P2, P3, P6) Understanding units of measurement (P8)
- Publisher
- Education Services Australia
- Copyright
- © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons BY 4.0, unless otherwise indicated.
- Other terms
- real world maths
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