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Recipes (C) WORKSHEET

Suitable for Year groups: Year 8, Year 9
GCSE Tier: Foundation
Targeting grades: 1-3
Prerequisite knowledge: Competency in short multiplication and division.
Learning Objective: Scale up or down recipes where ingreidents need to be mulitplied by a fraction or a decimal

Recipes (C) WORKSHEET DESCRIPTION

This is the last in our worksheet series of recipe problems and is ideal for any students who would benefit from the extra multiplication and division challenge that Recipes (C) brings. Recipe problems are the perfect conceptual introduction to direct proportion for many students. They remain ever popular with exam boards and let’s face it, form an important life skill!

In Recipes (C), students have 6 recipe cards that need scaling by an integer and fractional scale factors. Examples include recipes from 6 to 15 and 8 to 20.

Your learners will be faced with challenges such as 1 ½ x 2 ½ and should be encouraged to complete this worksheet without a calculator.

All worksheets are created by the team of experienced teachers at Cazoom Maths.

Recipes worksheet suitable for students in KS3

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Frequently Asked Questions

Students should have competency in short multiplication and division before tackling these recipe scaling problems. This foundation is crucial because they'll be working with mixed numbers and fractions without calculator support, requiring confident mental arithmetic and written calculation methods.