Mixing Paint, Part 1

Students use paint mixtures as a context to develop and share strategies for comparing ratios.

By Amplify Classroom

Grades: 6th Grade

Subject: Math

Learning goals: Today’s Goals • Use a variety of strategies to compare two ratios in context. • Justify whether two ratios are equivalent by transforming them so that they have one value in common (e.g., `a\ :\ b` and `a\ :\ c`, or `x\ :\ z` and `y\ :\ z`). (Speaking and Listening)