Direct Proportion: Identifying Relationships
Students will identify and solve problems involving direct proportion.
Key Questions
- Explain how to identify if two variables are in direct proportion.
- Predict the outcome of a proportional relationship given a change in one variable.
- Construct a graph to represent a directly proportional relationship.
National Curriculum Attainment Targets
Suggested Methodologies
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