Standard #: MAFS.6.RP.1.1 (Archived Standard)


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Understand the concept of a ratio and use ratio language to describe a ratio relationship between two quantities. For example, “The ratio of wings to beaks in the bird house at the zoo was 2:1, because for every 2 wings there was 1 beak.” “For every vote candidate A received, candidate C received nearly three votes.”


General Information

Subject Area: Mathematics
Grade: 6
Domain-Subdomain: Ratios & Proportional Relationships
Cluster: Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems. (Major Cluster) -

Clusters should not be sorted from Major to Supporting and then taught in that order. To do so would strip the coherence of the mathematical ideas and miss the opportunity to enhance the major work of the grade with the supporting clusters.

Date Adopted or Revised: 02/14
Date of Last Rating: 02/14
Status: State Board Approved - Archived
Assessed: Yes

Test Item Specifications

    N/A

    Assessment Limits :
    Whole numbers should be used for the quantities. Ratios can be expressed as fractions, with “:” or with words. Items may involve mixed units within each system (e.g. convert hours/min to seconds). Context itself does not determine the order. Limit use of percent to MAFS.6.RP.1.3c.
    Calculator :

    No

    Context :

    Allowable



Sample Test Items (2)

Test Item # Question Difficulty Type
Sample Item 1 Jordan has 3 blue marbles and 8 red marbles. 

What is the ratio of blue marbles to red marbles? 

 

N/A MC: Multiple Choice
Sample Item 2 Nora’s fruit stand sold 12 fewer pineapples than bananas last week. The stand sold 48 bananas last week. 

Complete the sentences to determine and interpret the ratio of bananas sold to pineapples sold. For each blank, fill in the circle before the word or phrase that is correct.

Last week, the ratio of bananas sold to pineapples sold was:

A. 1:4

B. 3:4

C. 4:1

D. 4:3

E. 4:5

 

This ratio means that for every

A. 1   banana(s) sold,

B. 3

C. 4

D. 5

 

the number of pineapples sold was 

A. 1

B. 3

C. 4

D. 5

N/A ETC: Editing Task Choice


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Related Resources

Formative Assessments

Name Description
Writing Ratios

Students are asked to write part-to-part and part-to-whole ratios using values given in a table.

Interpreting Ratios

Students are asked to explain the meaning of ratios in the context of problems.

Comparing Time

Students are given a scenario involving an additive comparison of two quantities, asked to write a ratio, and explain its meaning.

Comparing Rectangles

Students are asked to determine which of three given comparisons contains a correctly computed ratio in a context involving rectangles.

Lesson Plans

Name Description
Champion Volleyball Team

Students will help create a championship volleyball team by selecting 4 volleyball players to be added to open positions on the team. The students will use quantitative (ratios and decimals) and qualitative data to make their decisions.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom.

Genetics can be a Monster!

In this lesson, students will use Punnett squares to calculate the probabilities of different genotypes and phenotypes produced by genetic crosses.

All “Tired” Up

In this lesson students will utilize mathematical computation skills involving percentages and critical thinking skills to select the best tire deals advertised.

Selecting a Car for Display/Ratio

Teacher will use students’ responses to their selection of the most efficient car to create and introduce ratio concepts and reasoning. The activities can be completed as a whole group, a few groups, or individually. The teacher may also alternate so that certain parts of the activities can be whole group, few groups, or individually according to the classrooms functional, behavioral, and academic levels.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom.

Best Day Care Center for William

This MEA requires students to formulate a comparison-based solution to a problem involving choosing the BEST daycare based upon safety, playground equipment, meals, teacher to student ratio, cost, holiday availability and toilet training availability. Students are provided the context of the problem, a request letter from a client asking them to provide a recommendation, and data relevant to the situation. Students utilize the data to create a defensible model solution to present to the client. Students will receive practice on calculating a discount, finding the sum of the discounts, working with ratios and ranking day cares based on the data given.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom.

The Best Domestic Car

In this MEA students will use problem-solving strategies to determine which car to recommend to Americans living in India.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom.

RATIOS: Compare This!

Students will explore ratios with models; express ratios in fraction form (simplest form), by use of a colon, and with words as a relationship between two quantities.

PROFITS BY PROPORTIONS

Students will use proportions to determine how much to charge for a ticket to their concert performance. They will justify the price of tickets based upon the cost of facility rental and the number of tickets they anticipate being able to sell.

“My Favorite Recipe.” An introduction to ratios and rates. This lesson shows how ratios can be indicated in words such as "to", "for every", "out of every." In grade 6, rates mean "for each 1," "for each," and "per." The students will use diagrams and tables to build their ability to use proportional thinking. At the end of the lesson, the students will increase or decrease recipes they find in cookbooks.
The Concept of Ratios

This lesson introduces students to the term ratio, its meaning and use, and the various ways in which a ratio can be presented.

Paper Route Logic

Students will be helping Lily Rae find the most efficient delivery route by using speed and distance values to calculate the shortest time to make it to all of her customers.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem, while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought process. MEAs follow a problem-based, student centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEA’s visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx

Original Student Tutorial

Name Description
Equivalent Ratios

Help Lily identify and create equivalent ratios in this interactive tutorial.

Perspectives Video: Professional/Enthusiasts

Name Description
Mathematical Thinking for Ceramic 3D Printing

In this video, Matthew Lawrence describes how mathematical thinking is important for 3D printing with ceramic materials.

Download the CPALMS Perspectives video student note taking guide.

The Science and Math Behind Sour Fizzy Candy

Master candymaker Wes Raley describes the process and science behind making sour fizzy candy. 

Download the CPALMS Perspectives video student note taking guide.

Coffee Mathematics: Ratios and Total Dissolvable Solids

Math - the secret ingredient for an excellent cup of coffee!

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Motorcycle Mathematics: Tuning Compression Ratios for Performance

Get revved up about math when this motorcycle mechanic explains compression ratios.

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Isotopes and Paleoclimates

Let this researcher explain how studying fossils and isotopes can help us understand ancient climate conditions!

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Ratios of Horse Feed

An equestrian describes, nay, explains mathematics principles applied to feeding a horse!

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Perspectives Video: Teaching Ideas

Name Description
Sling Psychrometers for Measuring Relative Humidity!

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Bicycle Mathematics: Speed and Distance Calculations

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Problem-Solving Tasks

Name Description
The Escalator, Assessment Variation

Students are provided seven choices and are asked to determine the ratios that are correct for the given context.

Voting for Two, Variation 3

This problem is the third in a series of tasks set in the context of a class election. Students are given a ratio and total number of voters and are asked to determine the difference between the winning number of votes received and the number of votes needed for victory.

Voting for Two, Variation 1

This is the first and most basic problem in a series of seven problems, all set in the context of a classroom election. Students are given a ratio and total number of voters and are asked to determine the number of votes received by each candidate.

Voting for Two, Variation 2

This is the second in a series of tasks that are set in the context of a classroom election. It requires students to understand what ratios are and apply them in a context. The simple version of this question just asked how many votes each gets. This has the extra step of asking for the difference between the votes.

Voting for Two, Variation 4

This is the fourth in a series of tasks about ratios set in the context of a classroom election. Given only a ratio, students are asked to determine the fractional difference between votes received and votes required.

Games at Recess

Students are asked to write complete sentences to describe ratios for the context.

Ratio of Boys to Girls

Use the information provided to find the ratio of boys to girls. Tasks like these help build appropriate connections between ratios and fractions. Students often write ratios as fractions, but in fact we reserve fractions to represent numbers or quantities rather than relationships between quantities. In some textbooks, a distinction is made between a ratio, which is assumed to have a common unit for both quantities, and a rate, which is defined to be a quotient of two quantities with different units (e.g. a ratio of the number of miles to the number of hours).

Space Math - Comparing Planets Orbiting Other Stars

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Student Center Activity

Name Description
Edcite: Mathematics Grade 6

Students can practice answering mathematics questions on a variety of topics. With an account, students can save their work and send it to their teacher when complete.

Text Resource

Name Description
Hitting Streaks Spread Success

This informational text resource is intended to support reading in the content area. Although scientists haven't determined a specific reason why one baseball player's hitting streak improves his whole team's performance, they have observed a very real mathematical pattern. There may be many reasons for the phenomenon, but no one has found them out yet.

Tutorial

Name Description
Converting Speed Units

In this lesson, students will be viewing a Khan Academy video that will show how to convert ratios using speed units.

Video/Audio/Animations

Name Description
Atlantean Dodge Ball (An entetaining look at appropriate use of ratios and proportions)

Ratio errors confuse one of the coaches as two teams face off in an epic dodgeball tournament. See how mathematical techniques such as tables, graphs, measurements and equations help to find the missing part of a proportion.

Atlantean Dodgeball addresses number and operations standards, the algebra standard, and the process standard, as established by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). It guides students in:

  • Understanding and using ratios and proportions to represent quantitative relationships.
  • Relating and comparing different forms of representation for a relationship.
  • Developing, analyzing, and explaining methods for solving problems involving proportions, such as scaling and finding equivalent ratios.
  • Representing, analyzing, and generalizing a variety of patterns with tables, graphs, words, and, when possible, symbolic rules.
Bad Date (A Real World Application of Ratios)

In this video from Math Snacks, a women goes on three dates, after which she analyzes the ratio of how many words she speaks compared to the number of words her date speaks. By attaining a 1:1 ratio of words, she attains her "Happily Ever After." (Apparently, in her eyes, this is the only desirable quality in a man that really matters.) A learner's guide, teachers guide, and transcript of the video is included.

Student Resources

Original Student Tutorial

Name Description
Equivalent Ratios:

Help Lily identify and create equivalent ratios in this interactive tutorial.

Problem-Solving Tasks

Name Description
Voting for Two, Variation 3:

This problem is the third in a series of tasks set in the context of a class election. Students are given a ratio and total number of voters and are asked to determine the difference between the winning number of votes received and the number of votes needed for victory.

Voting for Two, Variation 1:

This is the first and most basic problem in a series of seven problems, all set in the context of a classroom election. Students are given a ratio and total number of voters and are asked to determine the number of votes received by each candidate.

Voting for Two, Variation 2:

This is the second in a series of tasks that are set in the context of a classroom election. It requires students to understand what ratios are and apply them in a context. The simple version of this question just asked how many votes each gets. This has the extra step of asking for the difference between the votes.

Voting for Two, Variation 4:

This is the fourth in a series of tasks about ratios set in the context of a classroom election. Given only a ratio, students are asked to determine the fractional difference between votes received and votes required.

Games at Recess:

Students are asked to write complete sentences to describe ratios for the context.

Student Center Activity

Name Description
Edcite: Mathematics Grade 6:

Students can practice answering mathematics questions on a variety of topics. With an account, students can save their work and send it to their teacher when complete.

Tutorial

Name Description
Converting Speed Units:

In this lesson, students will be viewing a Khan Academy video that will show how to convert ratios using speed units.

Video/Audio/Animation

Name Description
Atlantean Dodge Ball (An entetaining look at appropriate use of ratios and proportions):

Ratio errors confuse one of the coaches as two teams face off in an epic dodgeball tournament. See how mathematical techniques such as tables, graphs, measurements and equations help to find the missing part of a proportion.

Atlantean Dodgeball addresses number and operations standards, the algebra standard, and the process standard, as established by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). It guides students in:

  • Understanding and using ratios and proportions to represent quantitative relationships.
  • Relating and comparing different forms of representation for a relationship.
  • Developing, analyzing, and explaining methods for solving problems involving proportions, such as scaling and finding equivalent ratios.
  • Representing, analyzing, and generalizing a variety of patterns with tables, graphs, words, and, when possible, symbolic rules.


Parent Resources

Problem-Solving Tasks

Name Description
Voting for Two, Variation 3:

This problem is the third in a series of tasks set in the context of a class election. Students are given a ratio and total number of voters and are asked to determine the difference between the winning number of votes received and the number of votes needed for victory.

Voting for Two, Variation 1:

This is the first and most basic problem in a series of seven problems, all set in the context of a classroom election. Students are given a ratio and total number of voters and are asked to determine the number of votes received by each candidate.

Voting for Two, Variation 2:

This is the second in a series of tasks that are set in the context of a classroom election. It requires students to understand what ratios are and apply them in a context. The simple version of this question just asked how many votes each gets. This has the extra step of asking for the difference between the votes.

Voting for Two, Variation 4:

This is the fourth in a series of tasks about ratios set in the context of a classroom election. Given only a ratio, students are asked to determine the fractional difference between votes received and votes required.

Games at Recess:

Students are asked to write complete sentences to describe ratios for the context.

Video/Audio/Animation

Name Description
Atlantean Dodge Ball (An entetaining look at appropriate use of ratios and proportions):

Ratio errors confuse one of the coaches as two teams face off in an epic dodgeball tournament. See how mathematical techniques such as tables, graphs, measurements and equations help to find the missing part of a proportion.

Atlantean Dodgeball addresses number and operations standards, the algebra standard, and the process standard, as established by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). It guides students in:

  • Understanding and using ratios and proportions to represent quantitative relationships.
  • Relating and comparing different forms of representation for a relationship.
  • Developing, analyzing, and explaining methods for solving problems involving proportions, such as scaling and finding equivalent ratios.
  • Representing, analyzing, and generalizing a variety of patterns with tables, graphs, words, and, when possible, symbolic rules.


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