Starter quiz
- A standard cake recipe needs 200 g of flour and 100 g of sugar. Lucas makes a larger version of this cake and uses 300 g of sugar. How much flour does he use?
- 200 g
- 300 g
- 400 g
- 500 g
- 600 g ✓
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- In a class of 25 students, the ratio of boys to girls is 2:3. How many boys and girls are there in the class?
- 2 boys and 3 girls
- 4 boys and 6 girls
- 6 boys and 9 girls
- 8 boys and 12 girls
- 10 boys and 15 girls ✓
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- A recipe for a smoothie calls for 2 bananas, 1 cup of yogurt, and 1/2 cup of berries. If you want to quadruple the recipe, how much of each ingredient would you need?
- Bananas⇔8 ✓
- Cups of yoghurt⇔4 ✓
- Cups of berries⇔2 ✓
- A car travels 150 miles on 45 litres of petrol. What is the ratio of miles to litres? Give your answer in its simplest form.
- '10 : 3' ✓
- The ratio of red to blue marbles in a jar is 3 : 5. If there are 15 blue marbles, how many red marbles are there?
- '9' ✓
- A fruit salad has apples, oranges, and grapes in a ratio of 3 : 2 : 4. If there are 12 apples, how many grapes are there?
- 4
- 8
- 12
- 16 ✓
- 36
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Exit quiz
- A ______ designer creates visuals for various projects such as adverts, branding, magazines, packaging and websites.
- 'graphic' ✓
- Two quantities are in the ______ ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities.
- 'golden' ✓
- ______ symmetry describes when a shape appears the same after some rotation.
- 'Rotational' ✓
- Which of these shapes has rotational symmetry of order 5?
- Equilateral triangle
- Square
- Rhombus
- Regular pentagon ✓
- Regular hexagon
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- Which of these quadrilaterals always has rotational symmetry of order 4?
- Kite
- Parallelogram
- Rectangle
- Square ✓
- Trapezium
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- How many letters in the English alphabet (written as capital letters) have rotational symmetry?
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7 ✓
- 8
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Key learning points
- Designs set out using the golden ratio are considered aesthetically pleasing.
- Both Western and non-Western cultures rely on geometric shapes and transformations to produce beautiful artwork.
Common misconception
Pupils may be uncertain as to whether an image has rotational symmetry.
Tracing paper may be useful here. Pupils can trace the image and then rotate the tracing paper to determine if an image has rotational symmetry.
Keywords
Graphic designer - A graphic designer creates visuals for various projects such as adverts, branding, magazines, packaging and websites.
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