Ratio Mystery Grid Challenge | Differentiated Ratio Worksheets with Answers
£1.50
Turn ratio practice into a maths puzzle! This engaging Mystery Grid resource challenges learners to use a series of ratio clues to discover the numbers hidden inside each grid. 🔍
Instead of completing a traditional worksheet, pupils must calculate, reason and make connections between clues to gradually solve the mystery. 🧠💡
📚 Skills practised include:
🔢 Understanding ratio notation
✂️ Simplifying ratios
➗ Dividing quantities in a given ratio
🔗 Finding equivalent ratios
🧮 Using given values to calculate unknown numbers
➕ Combining ratio with addition and other number skills
🧠 Multi-step mathematical reasoning
🔍 Logical problem solving
📈 Progressive challenge! The activities become more demanding, moving from straightforward clues such as A:G = 1:5 to problems requiring pupils to simplify ratios, divide quantities and combine several pieces of information.
⭐ The final challenge increases the difficulty again with a larger 4 × 4 mystery grid and clues involving ratios, sums and several connected calculations.
🎯 Perfect for:
📚 Ratio and proportion lessons
🧠 Maths reasoning and problem solving
🔄 Revision and consolidation
🚀 Challenge activities
⏰ Early finishers
🏠 Homework
👥 Individual or paired work
🎓 Exam preparation
✅ Answers included for quick and easy marking.
🖨️ Low-prep and ready to use — simply print and challenge your learners to crack each grid!
🔐 Can they follow the clues, solve the ratios and complete the mystery grid? 🧩🏆