Grade 7 - The School District of Philadelphia

Grade: 7 Subject: Math (worksheets taken from enVision Mathematics, Grade 7) Topic: Analyze and Use Proportional Relationships What Your Student is Learning:

Use ratios and rates to describe the relationship between two quantities. Find equivalent ratios and use unit rates (even with ratios of fractions) to solve multi-step problems. Determine whether quantities are proportional by testing for equivalent ratios. Use the constant of proportionality to write equations that represent proportional relationships and

use those equations to solve problems involving proportional relationships. Use a graph to recognize proportionality, identify a constant of proportionality, and interpret a point on

a graph of a proportional relationship. Explain whether a situation represents a proportional relationship. Background and Context for Parents: This concept is all about how quantities

change together and helps students make sense of the world around them. It is important for students to see relationships and patterns over following procedures with this content as solutions without understanding the context and how the two quantities are changing are not very useful.

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Ways to support your student: Read the problem outloud to them. Remember, the topic is about situations so ask students to summarize the problem/visual/equation in their own words first. And then ask them what they notice about the relationships between the two variables or the two quantities. Before giving your student the answer to their question or specific help, ask them "What have you tried so far?, What do you know?, What might be a next step? After your student has solved it, and before you tell them it's correct or not, have them explain to you how they got their solution and if they think their answer makes sense.

Online Resources for Students: - (whole module) - online practice around this topic

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