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Title:

Rate StudyJam

URL:

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Content Source:

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Type:

Interactive/Game

Overview:

In this interactive activity, students will be introduced to rates as a type of ratio that compares, unlike units. Students will be led through steps to find an equivalent fraction before they compare rates. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that reviews the steps taught during the activity can be printed. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

Content Standard(s):

Mathematics
MA2019 (2019)
Grade: 6

2. Use unit rates to represent and describe ratio relationships.

Unpacked Content

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:
Given contextual or mathematical situations involving multiplicative comparisons,

Use unit rate to solve missing value problems (e.g., cost per item or distance per time unit).
Use rate language to explain the relationships between ratio of two quantities as non-complex fractions and the associated unit rate of one of the quantities in terms of the other.

Teacher Vocabulary:

Unit rate
Ratio
Rate language
Per
Quantity
Measures
Attributes

Knowledge:

Students know:

Characteristics of multiplicative comparison situations.
Rate and ratio language.
Techniques for determining unit rates.
To use reasoning to find unit rates instead of a rule or using algorithms such as cross-products.

Skills:

Students are able to:

Explain relationships between ratios and the related unit rates.
Use unit rates to name the amount of either quantity in terms of the other quantity flexibly.
Represent contextual relationships as ratios.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

A unit rate is a ratio (a:b) of two measurements in which b is one.
A unit rate expresses a ratio as part-to-one or one unit of another quantity.

Diverse Learning Needs:

Essential Skills:

Learning Objectives:
M.6.2.1: Define unit rate, proportion, and rate.
M.6.2.2: Create a ratio or proportion from a given word problem.
M.6.2.3: Calculate unit rate by using ratios or proportions.
M.6.2.4: Write a ratio as a fraction.

Prior Knowledge Skills:

Recall basic multiplication facts.
Solve word problems involving multiplication of a fraction by a whole number, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem.
Recognize key terms to solve word problems.
Examples: times, every, at this rate, each, per, equal/equally, in all, total.
Recognize a fraction as a number on the number line.
Label numerator, denominator, and fraction bar.

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
M.AAS.6.1 Demonstrate a simple ratio relationship using ratio notation given a real-world problem.

Tags:

equivalent, fraction, rate, ratio

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Comments

The quiz may be completed as a whole group or independently on student devices.

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Author:

Hannah Bradley

ALEX Classroom Resource

Rate StudyJam