What you need to know
Check yourself against these “I can” statements.
- I can recognise the graphs of direct and inverse proportion
- I can solve direct proportion problems
- I can solve inverse proportion problems
- I can combine proportion statements, like y ∝ x² and x ∝ m, to link y and m
Practise this topic
2 resources🔤 Fill the Gaps
Fill the Gaps: Maths Vocabulary
A sentence explaining one of the unit’s key words, with gaps. Pick the right word for each gap from the words scattered round it: the right ones and plenty of wrong ones. A deck for every unit.
🧩 ConnectionsRatio & Proportion
Simplify ratios written as multiples, decimals, 1 : n, with units or as money shared out. Reversed ratios and unit and sharing traps from Standard; fractions and three-part ratios on Hard.
These are the pages for Proportion in the GCSE scheme of work, following Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Mathematics, Higher tier (1MA1). Open this topic in Mr Wells Maths to see it alongside the rest of the course.