Proportion in Middle School Mathematics: It's Everywhere

Mal Shield; Shelley Dole

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Proportion in Middle School Mathematics: It's Everywhere

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Proportion in Middle School Mathematics: It's Everywhere

Mal Shield and Shelley Dole

Australian Mathematics Teacher, Vol.64(3), pp.10-15

2008

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Abstract

Mathematical Sciences

Education

problem solving

concept learning

ratio

proportion

The authors summarise ways of working in different proportional situations and explain how similar solution methods for problems based on proportion can be used in various contexts. They suggest that proportional thinking is not a single topic, but the underlying principle in a range of topics such as rate, gradient of a linear function and similarity.

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Title: Proportion in Middle School Mathematics: It's Everywhere
Authors: Mal Shield (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Shelley Dole (Author) - University of Queensland
Publication details: Australian Mathematics Teacher, Vol.64(3), pp.10-15
Publisher: Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers Inc.
Date published: 2008
ISSN: 0045-0685
Organisation Unit: School of Education - Legacy; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449484502621
Output Type: Journal article

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