Primary Teachers, Please help!

booksale

Need to make teaching material for my teaching course. I am thinking to do ratio or proportion. I have looked through the national curriculum, only ratio is mentioned in the Glossary, but then I could not find in the content that teachers need to teach ratio and proportion. But maybe I miss it?


Do you guys know whether the primary students here learn ratio and proportion? I've checked online that UK curriculum does cover ratio and proportion in primary KS2. Do you know the story of it in Irish curriculum????

dambarude

It's on page 90 of the Maths curriculum book.

It's taught in sixth class under the Fractions strand unit:

The child should be enabled to:

Understand and use simple ratios
explore and record the relationship between the natural numbers and their multiples

If you want an idea of what type of activities would be based on this look at a textbook like Mathemagic 6.

TBH you haven't picked an area that's particularly useful or easy to do. You couldn't pick a more common area of maths?

booksale

dambarude, tks. very much appreciated.

i think ratio and proportion are quite useful in daily life. and was thinking to use table to teach proportion.

but now, i've changed to percentage. am going to use a percentage square.

cheers! have a nice weekend!