Grade 7 Proportional Relationships - Medium
A medium grade 7 worksheet for Proportional Relationships.
Worksheet snapshot
- Proportional Relationships
- Key concepts: Understanding core proportional relationships concepts for Grade 7; Applying proportional relationships strategies appropriate to Grade 7
- Students develop fluency with proportional relationships at Grade 7 level, applying strategies more independently and solving increasingly complex problems.
- Apply it: Proportional Relationships at the Grade 7 level connects to everyday situations students encounter: problem-solving in daily life, making sense of quantities and relationships, and building mathematical literacy for future learning.
- Write the ratio 11:9 in simplest form.
- Write the ratio 13:20 in simplest form.
- Write the ratio 8:20 in simplest form.
About Proportional Relationships
Proportional relationships exist when two quantities maintain a constant ratio. Students learn to recognize, represent, and analyze proportional relationships using tables, graphs, and equations.
Proportional reasoning is fundamental to understanding rates, scale, similarity, percentages, and linear relationships. It's essential for science, economics, architecture, cooking, and countless real-world applications.
Proportional Relationships
Identify and represent proportional relationships using tables, graphs, equations, and unit rates; apply to word problems.
This medium level worksheet:
Write equations y = kx from tables/graphs; compare two proportional situations (tables/graphs/equations).
Key Concepts
- Unit rate and constant of proportionality
- Tables/graphs/equations for y = kx
- Comparing proportional relationships
Prerequisite skills
Ratios/percents; graphing ordered pairs; basic linear equations form.
Teaching Strategies
Move flexibly among table→graph→equation; highlight straight-line through origin with slope k; use real rate contexts.
Assessment ideas
Have students identify proportional relationships from tables and graphs. Test unit rate calculation. Include scale problems and percent problems. Ask students to write equations for proportional relationships. Use real-world context problems.
Common Challenges
Confusing additive vs. multiplicative change; forgetting origin on graphs; mixing units in rates.
Real-World Applications
Speed, unit pricing, scaling drawings, and commission/percent problems.
Extension Activities
Compare two rate graphs to decide the better option; create a proportional story for a given equation; switch representations and explain.
Parent Tips
When you see a rate (mph, price per unit), ask your child to identify the unit rate and sketch how it would graph.