Lessons tagged with "proportional+relationships"
Calculate Unit Rates
- Grade:
- 6
- Subject:
- Math
This ratios and proportional relationships lesson teaches students how to calculate unit rates. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will find various unit rates of real-world word problems.
Solve Problems Involving Proportional Relationships
- Grade:
- 6
- Subject:
- Math
This ratios and proportional relationships lesson teaches students how to solve problems involving proportional relationships. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify a given ratio in a word problem, then the unknown ratio. They will represent the proportional relationship in a table and generate an equivalent ratio to solve for the unknown. Finally, they will interpret the solution.
Solve Percent Problems Using Proportions
- Grade:
- 7
- Subject:
- Math
This ratios and proportional relationships lesson covers how to solve multistep percent problems using proportions. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students determine what the question is asking, and then the corresponding percent and quantity by drawing a diagram. Then, they set up a proportion for the percent and quantity, cross multiply, and solve for the unknown quantity. Finally, they interpret the solution, identifying whether it was a percent increase (tax, tip, or markup) or a percent decrease (sale, discount, or coupon).