Instructional Video

Rates and Proportions

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Clarify complex math concepts with a helpful video. Learners view ways to work with ratios and proportions while discussing vocabulary and notation. After solving proportions, they apply the new strategy to word problems.

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CCSS: Designed
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Instructional Ideas
  • Provide time stamps for a substitute to stop the video and allow pupils to complete the guided practice examples
  • Assign the video as homework and use class time for pupils to complete problems, allowing more time for questions in class
Classroom Considerations
  • Requires Internet access to view the YouTube video
  • This video is hosted on YouTube
Pros
  • Contains examples for guided practice
  • Includes real-world examples that use proportions to solve
Cons
  • Uses cross multiply as a method of solving proportions in place of the Multiplication Property of Equality
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