Overview of Session 8

• Sharing the goals of the session

• Working on proportionality:
– Thinking about proportionality
– Mario’s Pizza House Meal Plan
– Revisiting ideas on proportionality
• Reflecting on the session

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 Goals of the Session
Goals
– Identifying characteristics of proportionality
– Distinguishing between proportional and
non proportional situations
– Providing examples and non-examples of
proportional situations
– Building connections among different types
of representations (contexts, tables, graphs,
equations)

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Thinking About Proportionality:
What makes a situation proportional?

• How would you define/characterize

proportionality?
• What are some mathematical topics in
which proportionality occurs?
• Can you give some examples and non-
examples of proportional situations?
• What difficulties might students have
when working on proportionality?

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 Mario’s Pizza House Meal Plans
Describing the plans: Imagine that you have been
asked to make a flyer to describe the three plans.
How would you describe each plan in a few words
or sentences?
Determining the cost of meals: Use different
representations (tables, graphs, etc…) that could
help you determine the cost of any number of
meals purchased on each plan and explain your
reasoning. Use your analysis of the graphs to
determine which plan offers the best value.

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Plan A Plan B Plan C
 Identifying Characteristics of
Proportionality

• How are the three graphs similar or different?

• How do you see these similarities and

differences in the other representations that
you created?

• Can you think of any other examples and

non-examples of proportional situations?

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 Revisiting Ideas on Proportionality

• How would you define/characterize

proportionality?
• What are some mathematical topics in which
proportionality occurs?
• Can you give some examples and non-
examples of proportional situations?
• What difficulties might students have when
working on proportionality?

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 Reflection on the Session & An
Assignment
• What stood out for you today?
• Pick a task that we worked on
together during one of our sessions
and collect student work on it. You
will receive an email with further
directions.

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Definition/Characteristics: Mathematical topics in which
proportionality occurs:

Proportionality
Examples of proportional situations: Non-examples of proportional situations:

Difficulties that students might encounter as they solve proportionality

problems:

A derivative OGAP product created for MMSTLC October 2008. Original materials were developed as a part of The
Vermont Mathematics Partnership funded by a grant provided by the US Department of Education (Award Number
S366A020002) and the National Science Foundation (Award Number EHR-0227057)
 Mario’s Pizza House Meal Plans

The graphs show data for three meal plans from Mario’s Pizza House. The plan is
based on the cost per customer.

A) Describing the plans:

Imagine that you have been asked to make a flyer to describe the three plans.
How would you describe each plan in a few words or sentences?

B) Determining the cost of meals:

Use different representations (tables, graphs, etc…) that could help you
determine the cost of any number of meals purchased on each plan and explain
your reasoning. Use your analysis of the graphs to determine which plan offers
the best value.

MMSTLC, October 2008 (Cengiz & Charalambous) 1

 Mario’s Pizza House Meal Plans
108

104

100

96

92

88

84

80

76

72

68

64

60
Total cost ($)

56

52

48

44

40

36

32

28

24

20

16

12

0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

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MMSTLC, October 2008 (Cengiz & Charalambous) 2
Plan A Plan B Plan C MMSTLC, October 2008