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Year 6

Representing ratio in different ways

You can explain how to use multiplication and division to calculate unknown values with two variables.

New
New
Year 6

Representing ratio in different ways

You can explain how to use multiplication and division to calculate unknown values with two variables.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Bar models can represent unequal sharing or many to many sharing.
  2. Representations show the relationship between the two variables.
  3. The representation helps to identify the calculations needed to solve the problem.

Keywords

  • Many to many - Use many to many to describe ratios where each value is more than one

Common misconception

Using addition and subtraction rather than multiplication and division to solve problems.

Continue to model the use of the language and notation of multiplication to calculate missing values.

Make sure that pupils can explain how the numbers in the caluclation relate to the objects and bar models. Make sure they understand what the answer represents and whether they are calculating a part or the whole.
Teacher tip

Licence

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Lesson video

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6 Questions

Q1.
Which image can be described by this statement 'For every 3 birds there are 4 squirrels'?
An image in a quiz
Correct Answer: An image in a quiz
An image in a quiz
An image in a quiz
Q2.
Write a sentence using 'for every' to describe this image
An image in a quiz
For every 2 triangles there are 3 circles
Correct answer: For every 3 triangles there are 2 circles
Correct answer: For every 9 triangles there are 6 circles
For every three triangles there are 3 circles
Q3.
What does the number 8 in this equation $$2 \times 4 = 8$$ represent in relation to this image?
An image in a quiz
Correct Answer: The total number of circles, All the circles, 4 lots of 2 circles
Q4.
What does the number 4 this equation $$3 \times 4 = 12$$ represent in relation to this image?
An image in a quiz
Correct Answer: The pattern is shown 4 times, There are 4 basic patterns, There are 4 lots of pattern
Q5.
What does the number 12 this equation $$3 \times 4 = 12$$ represent in relation to this image?
An image in a quiz
Correct Answer: The number of triangles, There are 12 triangles, 4 lots of 3 triangles
Q6.
What does the number 20 this equation $$5 \times 4 = 20$$ represent in relation to this image?
An image in a quiz
Correct Answer: The total number of shapes, All the triangles and circles, All the shapes in the image

6 Questions

Q1.
Which statment matches this image?
An image in a quiz
For every 1 orange marble there are 3 blue marbles
For every 3 orange marbles there are 2 blue marbles
For every 3 blue marbles there are 2 orange marbles
Correct answer: For every 3 orange marbles there is 1 blue marble
Q2.
Which of the images show a 'many to many' ratio?
Correct answer: For every 2 orange marbles there are 3 blue marbles
For every 1 orange marble there are 2 blue marbles
Correct answer: For every 2 blue marbles there are 5 orange marbles
For every 3 orange marbles there is 1 blue marble
Q3.
What multiplication would you use to work out the missing number? If there are 12 blue marbles, there will be __ orange marbles.
An image in a quiz
$$5 \times 2 = 10$$
$$2 \times 3 = 6$$
Correct answer: $$2 \times 4 = 8$$
$$5 \times 4 = 20$$
Q4.
Which equation represents the total number of marbles?
An image in a quiz
$$5 \times 2 = 10$$
$$2 \times 3 = 6$$
$$2 \times 4 = 8$$
Correct answer: $$5 \times 4 = 20$$
Q5.
A recipe uses 3 eggs for every 4 spoons of sugar. If you use 15 eggs, how many spoons of sugar will you need?
25
Correct answer: 20
19
16
Q6.
A recipe uses 3 eggs for every 4 spoons of sugar. If you use 40 spoons of sugar, how many eggs will you need?
39
70
40
Correct answer: 30