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Here are some specific activities, investigations or visual aids we have picked out. Click anywhere in the grey area to access the resource. The options may go beyong the scope of this level of the Functional Skills requirements.

• Ratio A self marking exercise on using ratio notation, reducing a ratio to its simplest form and dividing a given quantity into a number of parts in proportion to a given ratio.
• Ratio Video Learn to work with ratios including dividing a quantity in a given ratio.
• Ratios vs Fractions Relate the language of ratios and the associated calculations to the arithmetic of fractions.
• Ratio Clues Arrange the ratio clues in the clouds in a logical order to work out the values of the twelve letters.

Here is an exam-style questions on this statement:

• "If A is 150% more than B, what is the ratio A:B?" ... more

Click on a topic below for suggested lesson Starters, resources and activities from Transum.

• Ratio A ratio is a relationship between two numbers of the same kind. In layman's terms a ratio represents, simply, for every amount of one thing, how much there is of another thing. This topic presents a number if different ways pupils can represent ratios and apply their meaning to problem solving situations.