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CCGPS Math 6 Unit 2

Rate, Ratio & Proportional Reasoning Using


Equivalent Fractions

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Dear Parents
In this unit students will be introduced to ratios and proportions. Students will have practice
identifying ratios from pictures, graphs, models and word problems. Using these skills,
students will then be able to identify proportional ratios and use ratios to describe proportional
situations as well as to predict outcomes.

http://thinkingblocks.com

Concepts Students will Use & Understand


http://www.khanacademy
.org

http://www.arcademicskill
builders.com

http://hoodamath.com

http://www.purplemath.c
om/modules/ratio.htm

http://www.ixl.com/math/
grade-5/compare-andconvert-customary-units

A ratio is a number that relates two quantities or measures within a given


situation in a multiplicative relationship (in contrast to a difference or additive
relationship).The relationships and rules that govern whole numbers, govern all
rational numbers.
Making explicit the type of relationships that exist between two values will
minimize confusion between multiplicative and additive situations.
Ratios can be express comparisons of a part to whole, (a/b with b 0), for
example, the ratio of the number of boys in a class to the number of students in
the class.
The ratio of the length to the width of a rectangle is a part-to-part relationship.
Understand that fractions are also part-whole ratios, meaning fractions are also
ratios. Percentages are ratios and are sometimes used to express ratios.
Both part-to-whole and part-to-part ratios compare two measures of the same
type of thing. A ratio can also be a rate.
A rate is a comparison of the measures of two different things or quantities; the
measuring unit is different for each value. For example if 4 similar vans carry 36
passengers, then the comparison of 4 vans to 36 passengers is a ratio.
All rates of speed are ratios that compare distance to time, such as driving at 45
miles per hour or jogging at 7 minutes per mile.
Ratios use division to represent relations between two quantities.

Vocabulary
http://www.sheppardsoft
ware.com/math.htm
(MEASUREMENT: length,
weight, volume, and
more)

Mathematics Course 1
Textbook Connection:
Ch. 6: Lessons 6-7
Ch. 7: Lesson 1-3; 7-10
Ch. 9: Lessons 1-4

Percent: A fraction or ration in which the denominator is 100


Proportion: An equation which states that two ratios are equal.
Rate: A comparison of two quantities that have different units of measure
Ratio: compares quantities that share a fixed, multiplicative relationship.
Rational number: A number that can be written as a/b where a and b are
integers, but b is not equal to 0.
Unit Ratio (unit rate): are ratios written as some number to 1.
Quantity: is an amount that can be counted or measured.

Try http://intermath.coe.uga.edu/dictnary/homepg.asp or
http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/ for further examples.

Mathematics Course 1
Textbook Online:

http://go.hrw.com/gopag
es/ma/msm1_07.html

Symbols
A ratio can be
expressed three ways:

Using the fraction


bar as in

2
3

Using a colon
symbol as in 2:3
Using the word to
as in 2 to 3.

Example 1
The table below shows the number of Beyblades that each student purchased. For every
Beyblade that Alex purchased, who purchased three times as many?
Number of
Student
Beyblades
Alex
18
Taj
36
Geoff
54
Carlos
27
Ankit
45

Example 2
The ratio of gazelles to lions at the African Safari Theme Park is 5 to 6. Which shows an
equivalent ratio?
A 10 gazelles to 12 lions
B 15 gazelles to 19 lions
C 20 gazelles to 25 lions
D 24 gazelles to 28 lions

Example 3

There are 1200 students in a school. 60% of them are girls. How many more girls
than boys are there?

Example 4
A newborn baby weighed 125 ounces. What is the babys weight in pounds and ounces?

Key
Example 1

Geoff purchased 3 times as many Beyblades as Alex.

1
3
=
18 x

Example 2

10 gazelles to 12 lions represent an equivalent ratio.


5(12) = 6(10)
60 = 60
Example 3

10%
120

10%
120

10%
120

10%
120

10%
120

Girls (720) Boys (480) = 240


There are 240 more girls than boys.
Example 4

10%
120

10%
120

10%
120

10%
120

10%
120

=
=

100%
1200

ounces
pounds

16 125
=
1
p

16(p) = 1(125)
16p = 125
16p 16 = 125 16
P = 7 r13

The newborn baby weighed 7 pounds 13 ounces.

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