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Subject: Math
Lesson Length: 25 - 35 mins
Topic: Ratios & Proportional Relationships; Proportional Relationships
Grade Level: 7
Standards / Framework:
Brief Description: Analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems. Students will justify and explain if two given quantities are proportional.
Know Before You Start: Students should be familiar with proportional quantities prior to this lesson. This lesson could be used as a checkpoint or formative assessment to gauge student understanding of proportional quantities.
Hook: Ask students to turn to a partner and explain how they know if two quantities are proportional. Share several responses to check for understanding.
Activity:
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Students will choose one of the sample comic panels to respond to.
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If they are proportional, students will explain and justify how they know.
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If they are not proportional, students will explain and justify how they know and provide a number that would make the relationship proportional.
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Students will use a caption at the top of their comic to denote which sample comic they are referring to (1 or 2).
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Students will create a two to four panel comic explaining whether or not the two quantities in the sample they chose are proportional.
Closure: As a class, students will decide which sample comic panel is proportional and which is not.
Differentiation:
- Allow students to use speech-to-text.
- Provide sentence frames and/or key words for the student comic.
- Allow students to work with a partner.
Resources:
- Comic to print or display: Comic.
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Students may need scrap paper to determine if the quantities are proportional before creating their comic.
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