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Ratios and Similar Shapes. What do you know ?. What does it mean if two things are similar? What does it mean if two shapes are similar?. Word Problems: Finding Rates. Cookies are 23 cents for 1. If I have $2.00, how many can I buy?. Explain the Strategy you used to solve the problem.
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What do you know? What does it mean if two things are similar? What does it mean if two shapes are similar?
Word Problems: Finding Rates • Cookies are 23 cents for 1. If I have $2.00, how many can I buy?
Explain the Strategy you used to solve the problem • Counting by .23 until you got close to 2.00 • Dividing 2.00 by .23 • Using a ratio • Other?
Using a Ratio is What You are Actually Doing, any Way that You Solve the Problem
Use a Ratio to Solve It costs $100 for a 25-pound turkey. If I spent $75, how big is my turkey?
We often use a Ratio to find the Unit Rate… Back to the turkey…. If a 25-pound bird costs $100, how much does turkey cost per pound?
We often use a Ratio to find the Unit Rate… We use unit rate to calculate speed a lot If I am in a bus that travels 450 miles in 5 hours, how many miles per hour is the bus travelling?
Online Resources http://www.phschool.com/webcodes10/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.gotoWebCode&wcprefix=ana&wcsuffix=2354 1)Pearson CMP practice problems: Corresponding sides of similar shapes http://www.phschool.com/webcodes10/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.gotoWebCode&wcprefix=ana&wcsuffix=2254 2)Graphing points to find similar shapes http://www.phschool.com/webcodes10/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.gotoWebCode&wcprefix=ana&wcsuffix=3254 3)Ratios and Scaling post-test