What you can learn in this unit

  • How to help your students understand that proportional reasoning describes the multiplicative relationship between quantities.
  • Some ideas to support your students to become more creative in their thinking about mathematics.
  • Some suggestions on how to design activities that allow for possibility thinking.

This unit links to the teaching requirements of the NCF (2005) and NCFTE (2009) outlined in Resource 1.

What this unit is about

1 Common misconceptions about proportional reasoning