1) This document contains 18 word problems involving proportions. The problems involve calculating quantities, prices, exchange rates and conversions between currencies.
2) The questions require setting up and solving proportions to find unknown values like quantities that can be purchased given a price or amounts of foreign currency that can be obtained through exchange.
3) Answers are provided and require rounding to whole numbers or tenths as specified in each question.
This is my slide deck from my session at the North Carolina Reading Conference last week in Raleigh, NC. I do staff development to schools and districts all over the country about best practices in literacy instruction. This topic is one of my most requested.
This is my slide deck from my session at the North Carolina Reading Conference last week in Raleigh, NC. I do staff development to schools and districts all over the country about best practices in literacy instruction. This topic is one of my most requested.