You can alter any of these structures in order to change the difficulty of the problem to meet the needs of your students.
To make the problem easier, you could:
- Make one or both relationships integral
- Change the numbers to make them both even
- Make the problem parallel (Paul's dog ate a 45 lb bag of dog food. How long did it take?)
- Present the information in a table to make it parallel
To make the problem harder, you could:
- Change the numbers to fractions or decimals
- Make the problem multi-step
- Change the within ratio to something more difficult than 1.5
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