Proportions 6 – Setting Up and Solving Proportions | Math Fluency

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In Lesson 6, students need to think a little harder, as most of the numbers are now spelled out in word form. For example, the numbers 20, 4, and 5 are spelled out as twenty, four, and five.

Also, this lesson includes a couple more tricky problems that are worded differently and involve conversions.

Box A, for example, is worded differently from previous problems. In previous problems, if students set up the proportion by writing down the information as it’s written in the word problem, the “empty” side of the proportion ends up on the right, which is a format that they are accustomed to seeing.

In Box A, however, they will end up with the “empty” side of the proportion on the left. Students can switch the left side and the right side of the equation to make it easier to solve.

Box C requires converting “two years” into “24 months.”

Box H requires knowing that there are 24 hours in one day.