William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (1824 –1907), was a British mathematician and engineer. Absolute temperatures are stated in units of kelvin in his honour. He wrote a text book that founded the study of mechanics firstly on the mathematics of kinematics and secondly with energy as a unifying principle.
MULTIPLICATIVE REASONING
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Key questions
What is multiplicative reasoning?
How are fractions and multiplicative reasoning linked?
How is percentage and multiplicative reasoning linked?
Can we problem solve with multiplicative reasoning?
5 lessons
Literacy
stories that set a frame or background
stories that accompany or intertwine
stories that introduce
stories that explain
stories that ask a question
stories that entertain
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Introduce...
ratio tables - 1
more proportional reasoning - 1, 4
shadows - 1, 4
double number lines - 1, 4
connecting two numbers - 1, 4
Develop...
checkpoints fractions - 1, 2, 4
checkpoints percentage - 1, 3, 4
percent of - 1, 3, 4
percentage - 1, 3, 4
from one fraction to another - 1, 2, 4
100% equals - 1, 3
fdp boxes - 1, 2, 3
Extend...
metric and imperial units - 1, 4
exchange rates - 1, 4
forex - 1, 4
currency codebreaker - 1, 4
ratio tables - 1