Comments on: Three Ways to Solve a Proportion http://www.nextvista.org/three-ways-to-solve-proportions/ at NextVista.org Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:03:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Diane Main http://www.nextvista.org/three-ways-to-solve-proportions/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Diane Main Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:59:14 +0000 http://www.nextvista.org/2006/09/10/three-ways-to-solve-proportions/#comment-50 You know, technically, this video does not show kids how to SOLVE a proportion, but rather three ways to prove whether two ratios indeed form a proportion. Kids, especially the middle schoolers I have worked with, struggle with grasping the difference between prove, solve, and simplify. That being said, I LOVE this video. And it's only the first math one I have looked at on this site. Sometimes, just hearing someone else say it is all the difference in the world. (You know how kids have you tuned out sometimes by mid-October?) In presenting it to the kids, it may even be worthwhile to say, "This teacher is using different terminology than we use. Can you spot what it is and explain it to the class?" Really get them thinking. You know, technically, this video does not show kids how to SOLVE a proportion, but rather three ways to prove whether two ratios indeed form a proportion. Kids, especially the middle schoolers I have worked with, struggle with grasping the difference between prove, solve, and simplify.

That being said, I LOVE this video. And it’s only the first math one I have looked at on this site. Sometimes, just hearing someone else say it is all the difference in the world. (You know how kids have you tuned out sometimes by mid-October?) In presenting it to the kids, it may even be worthwhile to say, “This teacher is using different terminology than we use. Can you spot what it is and explain it to the class?” Really get them thinking.

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