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Ratio inquiry
This ratio inquiry is about making connections, generating examples, and finding patterns and rules. The inquiry encourages students to regulate their own activity while exploring a prompt (an equation, statement or diagram). It involves students in questioning, analysing, conjecturing and generalising. Students can create their own examples using the template or prompt sheets provided. Teachers can make reference to the PowerPoint presentation provided on Ratio Inquiry.
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| Year level(s) | Year 7 |
|---|---|
| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Assessment task, Student task, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Feedback, Questioning, Collaborative learning, Differentiated teaching, Mathematics investigation, Metacognitive strategies, Worked examples |
| Keywords | multipier, reciprocal, multiplicative relationships, multiplier, ratio |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | English, Numeracy, Critical and creative thinking |
| Strand and focus | Algebra, Number, Apply understanding, Build understanding |
| Topics | Addition and subtraction, Decimals, Algebraic expressions, Data representation and interpretation, Integers, Multiples, factors and powers, Multiplication and division, Operating with number, Patterns and algebra, Proportion, rates and ratios |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M7N08
Recognise, represent and solve problems involving ratios |
| Numeracy progression |
Interpreting fractions (P8)
Multiplicative strategies (P9) Proportional thinking (P3) |
Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Inquiry Maths |
| Copyright | © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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