Unit 4: Decimals, Percents and algebraic reasoning.
Section 12: Ratios
Goals:
Understand different ways of phrasing ratio situations
Solve non-trivial ratio problems
Resources:
Bassarear discusses ratios in section 6.1
Different ways of phrasing ratio situations:
Video:
Ways of expressing ratios
Assignment:
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.
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:
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
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
Solve these problems
using bar diagrams