---
title: Proportional Relationships
description: Students will justify and explain if two given quantities are proportional.
image: https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/perfectly_proportionate_or_are_they_-001.png
---

**Subject: Math**

**Lesson Length: 25 - 35 mins**

**Topic: Ratios and Proportional Relationships; Proportional Relationships**

**Grade Level: 7**

**Standards / Framework: **

- [CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.RP.A.2.A](https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Math_Standards1.pdf)
- [CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.RP.A.2.B](https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Math_Standards1.pdf)
- [CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.RP.A.2.C](https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Math_Standards1.pdf)

**Brief Description:**  Analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems. 

**Know Before You Start:** Students should be familiar with **proportional quantities** prior to this lesson. This lesson could be used as a formative assessment to gauge student understanding of proportional quantities.

**Hook:**

- Have students turn to a partner and explain how they know if two quantities are proportional. Share several responses to check for understanding.

**Activity:**

- Have students choose one of the sample comic panels and respond to the following:
  
    - If they are proportional, explain and justify how you know.
    - If they are not proportional, explain and justify how you know and provide a number that would make the relationship proportional.
    - Use a caption at the top of you comic to denote which sample comic you are referring to (1 or 2).
- Have students create a comic explaining whether or not the two quantities in the sample they chose are proportional. 

**Closure:**

- As a class, have students decide which sample comic panel is proportional and which is not.

**Differentiation:**

- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature. 
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
- Provide sentence frames or key words as needed.
- Allow students to work with a partner.

**Resources:**

- Comic to print or display: [Comic.](https://share.pixton.com/qteybab)

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