By the end of this unit, students will:
- understand that ratio shows the relationship between two values and can describe how one relates to the other;
- understand the colon notation as the ratio symbol;
- find equivalent ratios by dividing or multiplying by the same number.
Curriculum Alignment: Key Stage 3: Ratio, proportion and rates of change
- use ratio notation, including reduction to simplest form.
- divide a given quantity into 2 parts in a given part:part or part:whole ratio; express the division of a quantity into 2 parts as a ratio.
- understand that a multiplicative relationship between 2 quantities can be expressed as a ratio or a fraction.
- relate the language of ratios and the associated calculations to the arithmetic of fractions and to linear functions.