Description

Overview:

This lesson is about ratios and proportions using candy boxes as well as a recipe for making candy as situations to be considered. It addresses many Mathematical Reasoning standards and asks students to: Use models to understand fractions and to solve ratio problems; think about a ratio as part/part model and to think about the pattern growing in equal groups or a unit composed of the sum of the parts; find a scale factor and apply it to a ratio. (5th Grade Math)

Level:

Upper Primary, Middle School

Grades:

Grade 5, Grade 6

Material Type:

Activity/Lab, Lecture, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author:

Lewis-Wolfsen, Hillary

Provider:

Noyce Foundation

Provider Set:

Inside Mathematics

Date Added:

11/30/2011