Rates and ratios: Year 8 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 8 is for the topic of Rates and ratios. Students recognise and use rates to solve problems including, constant rates, rate of pay, cost per kilogram, recipes, simple interest and average rates. Students will also be required to make comparisons between two related quantities of different units of measurement.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 8
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Planning support, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies, Student task, Home practice tasks
Format	Web page
Keywords	lesson plans, assessment task, teaching strategies, pedagogies, Australian Curriculum, learning from home, misconceptions
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Measurement
Topics	Proportion, rates and ratios
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M8M05 Recognise and use rates to solve problems involving the comparison of 2 related quantities of different units of measure
Numeracy progression	Proportional thinking (P5)
Copyright details
Organisation	Commonwealth of Australia
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