Curated OER
Chapter 5 - Objective 5.1 - Unit Rates
In this unit rate activity, students read story problems, determine important information, and write equations to solve the problem. Problems include distance, rate, cost per pound, and total cost. This one-page activity contains ten...
Curated OER
Chapter 4 - Objective 6.1 - Unit Rate & Mixture Problems
In this unit rate worksheet, students read story problems and determine the unit rate. They set up equations to solve proportion, percent and mixture problems. This one-page worksheet contains seven story problems.
Curated OER
Pre-Algebra
Seventh graders write with a pencil the conversions of teacher given unit rates with 90% accuracy after being led through several similar examples. They are quizzed on unit ratios after completing their homework assignments.
Curated OER
Unit Pricing
Students explore unit pricing to determine the best buy for their money. In this personal finance lesson, students calculate cost per wear examples and create a list of criteria for picking clothes. Students visit a story and use their...
Curated OER
Venn Diagrams & Word Problems
Students explore the concept of Venn Diagrams through word problems. In this Venn Diagram lesson, students solve word problems about groups of people using Venn Diagrams. Students use survey results about MySpace and Facebook in a Venn...
Curated OER
Money Problems
In this mathematics worksheet, 4th graders use the table given to find the total amount of money at home. Then they use the inventory that a store gave to solve each of the problems that follows. Students also solve for n.
Curated OER
Salaries: How much do Professional Football players Make?
Seventh graders use the internet to investigate the salaries of professional football players. They calculate how much the top five paid athletes in football earn for one game and for one minute of playing time. Students determine the...
Curated OER
Comparing Candy Bars
Eighth graders identify that a ratio is a comparison of two numbers and that a proportion is an equation that equates two ratios. They identify the extremes and means of proportions, as well as the product of the extremes equals the...
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Student Achievement Partners
Illustrative Mathematics: Art Class [Pdf]
Students demonstrate understanding of proportional relationships when completing an assessment.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Ratios, Rates and Unit Rates
Get independent practice working with ratios, rates and unit rates. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Analyze Units
Get independent practice working with analyzing unit rates. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Smart Shoppers
In this activity, students will compare ratios with different denominators, and then with common denominators. They will also find unit rates.
Other
Helping With math.com: Ratios and Unit Rates
This site contains a lesson about ratios and unit rates as well as guided and independent practice for students to review the skills.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp Walk a Thon 2
The purpose of this task is for students to translate information about a context involving constant speed into information presented in a table and to find the time it takes to travel a unit distance as well as the distance traveled per...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Rates and Ratios 2
Seventeen problems present a variety of problems working with various aspects of writing ratios as unit rates and simplifying ratios. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step...
Arcademics
Arcademics: Dirt Bike
Solving proportions by finding the missing part and advance your dirt bike to the finish line.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ee Dvd Profits, Variation 1
Eighth graders examine the costs of producing DVDs, taking into account the cost of building a factory. They need to look at units costs for DVDs, fixed prices, and building costs. They are asked to compare the costs for producing them...
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Ratios and Proportional Relationships 7.rp.1 Worksheets
Create a learning exercise to assess students understanding of unit rates and unit fractions.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Rate Language 6.rp.2 Worksheets
Print or create worksheets or flashcards to assess students' understanding of ratio concepts.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Ratios and Proportional Relationships 6.rp.3b Worksheets
Print or create worksheets or flashcards to assess students' understanding of ratios and unit rates.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Speed and Accuracy
This activity investigates the importance of accurate measurement in competitive sport, looking at examples from athletics and swimming. It is aimed at secondary maths students (grades 8, 9, and 10).
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Unit Rates
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson, students learn to find unit rates. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and attempt practice problems.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Comparing Fuel Economy
In this lesson students will explore rates. They will use the concept of rates to compute and compare fuel economy. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science, GEMS Project funded by the Malone...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Cool Kool Aid Experiment
This lesson allows students to practice writing and solving rates by conducting an experiment to find the best tasting Kool-Aid mixture. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation, extension as well as ways to manage behavior...