Understanding Proportional Relationships (Informal)
Students will explore proportional relationships in practical contexts, such as scaling recipes or sharing quantities, using informal methods.
Key Questions
- How can we share a quantity fairly in different proportions?
- What happens to ingredients in a recipe if we want to make more or less?
- How can we use multiplication or division to scale quantities up or down?
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