Step 10 Objective

Understand and use proportionality and calculate the result of any proportional change using multiplicative methods.


What if pupils find this a barrier?

Refer back to Step 8 and the unitary method and then make links to multiplicative methods, i.e. instead of dividing by 5 and then multiplying by 7 you could multiply by 7/5.
See the Year 9 proportional reasoning mini-pack - Acrobat pdf document (137Kb).

ITP Enlargements - Zip file (456Kb)