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Tips on Teaching Proportional Reasoning

Proportional reasoning is a skill that develops naturally, but can be accelerated with targeted teaching. Engaging students in proportional reasoning situations gives them an opportunity to use fraction and ratio skills in authentic situations.

Differentiation Tasks

Each of the Topics in the iMaths 1 to 6 Student Books has a set of differentiation tasks, which can be downloaded by teachers booklisting iMaths Student Books free of charge from www.imathsteachers.com.au. Each set includes support, consolidation and extension tasks to allow you to tailor your iMaths program to each student’s needs.

Case Study: iMaths in a Multi-Age Classroom

Ryeford State School is a Band 5 school on the Darling Downs, Queensland, which covers all year levels except 5 and 6.

We are into our second year of investigative Maths. As all Band 5 teachers know, teaching multi-age Maths simultaneously can be quite a challenge, but we have developed a system that incorporates the focus teaching of essential learnings and the investigative processes.