A real life situation requiring the division an amount of money according to a given ratio.
The missing square puzzle is an optical illusion used to help students reason about geometrical figures.
If six girls can plant 90 trees in a day. How many trees can ten girls plant in a day? The unitary method.
A starter about sums, products, differences, ratios, square and prime numbers.
Real life problems adapted from an old Mathematics textbook which can be solved using algebra.
A self-marking exercise in solving direct and inverse variation problems.
A slide presentation showing how to divide a quantity in a given ratio
Questions about scaling up the ingredients in the correct proportion for the witch's brew at Hallowe'en.
Test your understanding of map scales expressed as ratios with this self marking quiz.
An interactive activity challenging you to reproduce a pattern of coloured squares according to given clues.
A self marking exercise on using ratio notation, reducing a ratio to its simplest form and dividing a given quantity into a number of parts in proportion to a given ratio.
Arrange the ratio clues in the clouds in a logical order to work out the values of the twelve letters.
Relate the language of ratios and the associated calculations to the arithmetic of fractions.
Learn the mathematics required to adapt recipes to serve a different number of people.
Measure line segments and angles in geometric figures, including interpreting scale drawings.
Questions about the scale factors of lengths, areas and volumes of similar shapes.
Calculate the unit cost of items to earn jigsaw pieces that make a joke.
Ten questions which can be solved using the unitary method.
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