Proportional Thinking:
Ratios and different types of proportions such as direct and inverse proportions. When thinking about proportions it helps to think about them in relation to recipes for example. If you decide to make a cake larger you must adjust all the ingredients accordingly. Many activities relating to recipes are great for use in the classroom as they are relevant to student's everyday lives and have real world application.
Here is an activity that I think students will really enjoy as it is humorous and can be related to either Harry Potter or Halloween.
You can also adjust the numbers used in the activity to increase or decrease the level of difficulty, in order to make it suitable for the appropriate grade level. For example, you could incorporate fractions for students at higher grade levels. As you can see this version is the bronze level.
Patterning and Algebra:
This topic is generally introduced in grade 4 and continues throughout high school. When introducing students to patterning and algebra there are 4 things we can teach, which can help students develop an understanding.
- Investigate problems involving patterning and algebra in real life setting
- Extend knowledge of patterns that involve addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication as well as ones involving reflection, translations, or rotations
- Investigate problems involving missing numbers and develop and early sense of variables
- Extend their understanding of equality of expressions using multiplication or division in equations with unknown qualities on both sides
This a great introductory video explaining algebra that could be shown to students. I think incorporating videos and other forms of media when teaching math is good strategy to keep students engaged in a subject that can sometimes be quite dry.
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