Ratios

=Ratios=

- Used these cards in a "making playdough" lesson. We mixed parts of flour with parts of water to see which would be closest to the real playdough consistency. Then we talked about the minimum amount of ingredients we would need to add to each of the "recipes" to get the same ratio that the "ideal" had.

Application activities involving ratios, proportions and percents. First activity is problem solving using shapes and ratios. Second activity is solving for a missing value in a proportion that includes fractions or mixed numbers. Last page is using 100 squares to represent percents that are greater than 100% or less than 1 %.