By the end of this unit, students will:
- understand that a shape is an enlargement of another if all the matching sides are in the same ratio;
- use familiar language such as “twice as big” and progress to using the language of scale factors
- identify the scale factor of an enlargement when presented with both images.
Curriculum Alignment: Year 6 Ratio and proportions
- solve problems involving the relative sizes of 2 quantities where missing values can be found by using integer multiplication and division facts
- solve problems involving similar shapes where the scale factor is known or can be found