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7.1 Scale Drawings · Lesson 5: The Size of the Scale FactorMath · Grade 7 Math · Grade 7Lesson plan

Learning goals: Teacher Facing Describe (orally and in writing) how scale factors of 1, less than 1, and greater than 1 affect the size of scaled copies. Explain and show (orally and in writing) how to recreate the original figure given a scaled copy and its scale factor. Recognize (orally and in writing) the relationship between a scale factor of a scaled copy to its original figure is the “reciprocal” of the scale factor of the original figure to its scaled copy. Full lesson plan (warm-up, activities, synthesis, cool-down prompt) from 7.1 Scale Drawings, Grade 7.

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