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

Tape diagrams

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🎯 Objective: Students solve ratio problems with tape diagrams.

Lesson outline

  1. 3:5 ratio, total 40.
  2. Draw and solve.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: one tape diagram.

Lesson 5 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.3

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”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Ratios & rates📚 All 6th Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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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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