Introducing Ratios

Grades: 6th Grade

• Overview

• 6.2 Unit Overview

• Pre-Unit

• 6.2 Pre-Unit Check

• Sub-Unit 1: Ratios

  Students learn what ratios are, how to describe them, and how to generate equivalent ratios. Students are introduced to double number lines as tools for solving problems with equivalent ratios.

• Pizza Maker
• Ratio Relationships
• Rice Ratios
• Fruit Lab
• Balancing Act
• Product Prices
• 6.2 Practice Day 1
• 6.2 Sub-Unit Quiz

• Sub-Unit 2: Common Factors and Multiples

  Students build fluency with common factors, greatest common factor (GCF), common multiples, and least common multiple (LCM).

• Common Multiples
• Common Factors
• Mixing Paint, Part 1

• Sub-Unit 3: Solving Problems With Ratios

  Students develop and use strategies to compare ratios in context. They use double number line diagrams and tables of equivalent ratios to solve real-world and mathematical problems.

• Disaster Preparation
• Balloons
• Community Life
• Mixing Paint, Part 2
• City Planning
• Lunch Waste
• 6.2 Practice Day 2

• End-Unit

• 6.2 End-of-Unit Assessments

• Resources

• 6.2 Lesson Practice
• 6.2 Additional Practice
• 6.2 Show What You Knows

• Differentiation and Personalized Learning

• 6.2 Differentiation and Personalized Learning