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🧮 6th Grade · Math6.RP.A.3aUnit 2: Ratios & rates

Equivalent ratios

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🎯 Objective: Students build equivalent ratios with tables and double number lines.

Lesson outline

  1. Recipe scaling.
  2. Fill ratio tables.
  3. Graph the pairs.
  4. Exit: complete a table.

Lesson 2 of 6 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

6.RP.A.3a

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 6 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use ratio language and tables, tape diagrams and double number lines
  • Find unit rates and solve rate problems

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Ratios & rates”

  1. Ratio language
  2. Equivalent ratios
  3. Unit rates
  4. Speed and constant rates
  5. Tape diagrams
  6. Converting units with ratios

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