This lesson is intended to help you assess whether students recognize relationships of direct proportion and how well they solve problems that involve proportional reasoning. In particular, it is intended to help you identify those students who:
* Use inappropriate additive strategies in scaling problems, which have a multiplicative structure.
* Rely on piecemeal and inefficient strategies such as doubling, halving, and decomposition and have not developed a single multiplier strategy for solving proportionality problems.
* See multiplication as making numbers bigger and division as making numbers smaller.