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Introducing Ratios Lesson
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Introducing Ratios Lesson
📚 Part 1: Understanding Ratios
1. What does a ratio show us?
How to add two numbers together
How much of one thing there is compared to another thing
The total amount of objects
How to subtract numbers
2. Look at this ratio: 3:2. How do we say this?
Three plus two
Three minus two
Three to two
Three equals two
3. In a classroom, there are 5 red pencils for every 3 blue pencils. What is the ratio of red pencils to blue pencils?
3:5
5:3
8:1
5:8
4. True or false: The ratio 2:4 is the same as 4:2
True - order doesn't matter
False - order matters in ratios
✏️ Part 2: Real-Life Ratios
5. A recipe calls for 2 cups of flour to 1 cup of sugar. Write this as a ratio:
Flour to sugar = _____ : _____
6. In a fruit bowl, there are 4 apples and 6 bananas. Complete the ratios:
a) Apples to bananas = _____ : _____
b) Bananas to apples = _____ : _____
7. Look around your classroom or think about your home. Write down one example of a ratio you can see or think of:
8. Write the ratio from your example in question 7 using the correct notation (a:b):
My ratio: _____ : _____
🎯 Part 3: Challenge Questions
9. Explain in your own words what a ratio tells us. Use an example to help explain:
10. A football team has 4 players for every 1 coach. If there are 3 coaches, how many players are there? Show your thinking:
Answer: _________ players
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