Unit 4: Decimals, Percents and Ratios.

Section 13: Ratios

Goals:
Resources:
Bassarear discusses ratios in section 6.1


Different ways of phrasing ratio situations:
Video:
Ways of expressing ratios

Assignment 74:
Illustrate the ratios, and fill in the blanks in pages 2, 3 and 4 of this SMART Notebook file.  Save it as a Notebook file to turn in. Aug 15

Solving ratio problems by guessing and checking
Videos:
Guessing and checking to solve an example
How to get credit by putting your answers into the quiz section on D2L

Assignment 75:
Illustrate the problems and complete the tables on pages 2, 3, and 4 of this SMART Notebook file.  Input your answers from the tables into the quiz "Ratio problem solving" on D2L (Your score will be the average of your first attempt and your last attempt) Aug 15
Hints for the frustrated

Follow-up video
Other strategies that work for some of these problems.

Using bar diagrams to solve ratio problems:
Videos:
The Word file with the examples
Examples part 1
Examples part 2
Assignment 76:
Solve these problems using bar diagrams Aug 17

[study the unit 4 practice problems, and arrange to take the last exam on or before Aug 20]