Five a Day - Ratio - Ratio and proportion

KS2Gems presents 'Maths Five a Day', a resourceful tool for Year 6 students that consists of five SATs style questions, each focusing on a different aspect of ratio and proportion. The questions are designed to mirror the format and challenge of past SATs papers, offering an excellent opportunity for students to practice and assess their understanding of the topic. The questions cover various concepts, including the use of percentages for comparison, understanding scale factors, and tackling problems involving unequal sharing and grouping.

The resource includes teacher's notes that suggest using the questions as a starter activity to gauge students' knowledge or for retrieval practice. Each question is followed by an answer slide, allowing for immediate feedback and discussion. For example, one question compares the sleeping habits of a dog and an elephant, asking students to calculate what percentage of an elephant's life is spent asleep based on given data. Another question challenges students to convert a real-life distance into a scaled map distance. The set also includes problems on finding the ratio between the sides of similar triangles, determining the mass of objects based on a given ratio, and calculating the number of seeds planted based on the proportion that grew. These exercises are designed to deepen students' understanding of mathematical ratios and proportions in a practical context.