Forget the stress of finding ways to differentiate in your 8th grade math classroom! This real world math activity will challenge and engage your students in solving percents, ratios, and proportions word problems.
This real world math application is perfect for group work and collaboration or can be used as a stand-alone formative assessment for your ratios and proportions unit!
This activity includes:
✅ Solving proportions
✅ Analyzing ratios
✅ Percent proportions including discounts, depreciation, etc.
✅ Critical thinking questions and reasoning prompts
☆Answer key included☆
What is the real world scenario?
The school band is raising money for their annual trip. They are conducting two fundraisers to reach their goal and need help determining how to get the most bang for their buck.
From this scenario, the students will write ratios and proportions based on the information given to help the band members reach their fundraising goal.
How is this real life application different from regular ratio and proportions word problems?
Most word problems have one question that needs to be answered and little follow up or detail. My real world math activities stretch one idea or scenario into a meaningful performance task that can be used as a full assessment of student learning.
This application is more than interpreting the question and quickly getting to the answer. Your students will be challenged to think critically about each scenario and defend their solutions.
The best part? All of the topics are relevant and modernized (because kids don’t care about calculating CD sales or cell phone minutes anymore).
Ways you can use this percents, ratios, and proportions word problem activity in your 8th grade math classroom:
⭐Whole Group: This real world math activity is perfect for guided notes and introducing two step equations word problems.
⭐Small Group: Your students can work together to complete this word problems worksheet and have discussions about different strategies for writing equations from word problems.
⭐ Individual: I have used this activity as a formative assessment for my Algebra 1 students. It usually takes them about one class period to complete on their own.
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