Everyday Use of Proportions Lesson Plan

NAME: Shawna Hendrix

Lesson Title: Comparing and Scaling 4.2: Everyday Use of Proportions
Grade level: 7

Total Time: 1 Hour

# Students:
Learning Goal:
(Content
Standard/Common
Core)
Target Goal or Skill:

Analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world

mathematical problems.

Essential
Question(s):

What is a unit price?

How do we solve the proportion?
How do we calculate sales tax?
How do we set up the fraction of students who use pencils to pens?
How do we calculate the best purchase to save us money?

Topical question(s):

What is the price per ticket? What is the amount of tickets per dollar?
What is the price per pencil? How many pencils per dollar?
How many teaspoons of medicine should my 60lb daughter get?
How many teaspoons should a 200lb person get?
If I gave someone 5 teaspoons of medicine, how much would he/she
weigh?
What is the price with a 10% sales tax?
What is the best buy for food?

Instructional
Objective(s):

Students will demonstrate a greater understanding of unit rates and

proportions that are used in everyday life.

Assessment
(Criteria / Look
Fors/ Performance
Tasks)

Formative Assessment:
Answering of questions as a class, partnered discussion, completion of
lab sheet

Students will be able to set up and solve proportions that arise in

applications. They will be able to use ratios and scaling up or scaling
down to find the missing value in a proportion.

Summative Assessment:
N/A
Disabilities/Diverse
Needs Represented
Student
Accommodations

and/or Modifications
Instructional
Procedures
(including specific
times)

Introduction:
T: Remind students to grab a calculator if they dont have one.
T: Who can tell me what a unit price is? (If I bought 10 books for $10
what is the unit price?) Total amount of money / Total units

Introduction:
(including
motivational hook
where applicable)

Learning Activities:
T: (Go through presentation)

Learning Activities:

Closure:
T: Complete the lab sheet for homework (if they didnt finish in class)

T: Pass out the lab sheet and give them time in class to work in pairs on
it.

Closure:
Language Demands:
Function
Vocabulary
Syntax
Discourse

Function: Using proportions in everyday situations

Vocabulary: Unit rate, proportion
Syntax: Mathematical word problems, equations
Discourse: Discussion (in small groups and as a class)

5 Questions (Blooms What is a unit rate? (DOK 1)

or DOK)
What is the formula for calculating sales tax? (DOK 1)
How would you solve the proportion? (DOK 1)
How would you compare and contrast the prices per ounce to determine
the best value? (DOK 2)
What steps are needed to solve the equation? (DOK 2)
Curriculum (APA)
e.g.

Connected Mathematics

Investigations in
Number, Data, and
Space. (2012).
Pearson.

Materials

SmartBoard slides
Lab Sheet

Notes