Student Ratios

Worksheet Description

The problems in this worksheet center around ratios in a classroom and on a farm. The first task requires students to figure out how many students prefer math compared to science, given a ratio and the number of students who prefer science. In the second task, students need to find how many horses there are if the ratio of horses to cows is provided, along with the total number of cows. Both problems focus on calculating unknown values in ratio relationships.

This worksheet enhances students’ skills in ratio reasoning by connecting abstract numbers to real-world examples. Students will develop a better understanding of how to maintain the relationship between quantities when scaling up or down. This reinforces critical thinking and accuracy in dealing with proportions. It also sharpens their ability to solve problems where ratios are used to predict unknown values.