Witches and Wizards/Harry Potter, Potion Ratio and Proportion Lesson, Maths KS3 Ratio

Witches and Wizards, Magical/Harry Potter themed lesson, based around potions and proportional reasoning.

Includes

• PPT Presentation including starter/warm-up, main content of the lesson, answers to the card sort
• PDF card sort activity, in both smaller and larger font sizes
• PDF extension worksheet, in two difficulty levels.

Features

• 10 ‘function hat’ slides, covering some basic multiplication and division questions to get the student(s) practicing calculating.
• 3 ‘potions class’ slides, featuring different ratio questions, in a recipe format.
• 1 ‘potions problems’ slide, featuring a more complex word problem to get students prepared for the card sort.
• card sort activity, students can work in pairs or small groups to use the 8 cards to solve the missing ingredients needed for the recipe (the answers are at the end of this ppt)
• extension sheets, for any students that need additional work to complete

Starter: Sorting Hat function machine, testing student multiplication skills and allowing them to begin thinking Mathematically.

Main 1: Group activity, based around potion recipes, where students are required to use problem solving skills and proportional reasoning to solve the final 4 questions.

Main 2: extension worksheet with two difficulty levels - scaffolded worksheet includes some slightly less complicated questions, as well as further structure. Non-scaffolded worksheet with more difficult proportion questions.