Creative thinking in mathematics: proportional reasoning

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.