Focus Standards
Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems.
6.RP.1 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.”
6.RP.2 Understand the concept of a unit rate a/b associated with a ratio a:b with b ≠ 0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship. For example, “This recipe has a ratio of 3 cups of flour to 4 cups of sugar, so there is 3/4 cup of flour for each cup of sugar.” “We paid $75 for 15 hamburgers, which is a rate of $5 per hamburger.”
6.RP.3 Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations.
a. Make tables of equivalent ratios relating quantities with whole-number measurements, find missing values in the tables, and plot the pairs of values on the coordinate plane. Use tables to compare ratios.
b. Solve unit rate problems including those involving unit pricing and constant speed. For example, if it took 7 hours to mow 4 lawns, then at that rate, how many lawns could be mowed in 35 hours? At what rate were lawns being mowed?
c. Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/100 times the quantity); solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent.
d. Use ratio reasoning to convert measurement units; manipulate and transform units appropriately when multiplying or dividing quantities.
Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems.
6.RP.1 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.”
6.RP.2 Understand the concept of a unit rate a/b associated with a ratio a:b with b ≠ 0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship. For example, “This recipe has a ratio of 3 cups of flour to 4 cups of sugar, so there is 3/4 cup of flour for each cup of sugar.” “We paid $75 for 15 hamburgers, which is a rate of $5 per hamburger.”
6.RP.3 Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations.
a. Make tables of equivalent ratios relating quantities with whole-number measurements, find missing values in the tables, and plot the pairs of values on the coordinate plane. Use tables to compare ratios.
b. Solve unit rate problems including those involving unit pricing and constant speed. For example, if it took 7 hours to mow 4 lawns, then at that rate, how many lawns could be mowed in 35 hours? At what rate were lawns being mowed?
c. Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/100 times the quantity); solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent.
d. Use ratio reasoning to convert measurement units; manipulate and transform units appropriately when multiplying or dividing quantities.
Foundational Standards
Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems.
4.OA.2 Multiply or divide to solve word problems involving multiplicative comparison, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem, distinguishing multiplicative comparison from additive comparison.
Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.
5.NF.3 Interpret a fraction as division of the numerator by the denominator (a/b = a ÷ b). Solve word problems involving division of whole numbers leading to answers in the form of fractions or mixed numbers, e.g., by using visual fraction models or equations to represent the problem. For example, interpret 3/4 as the result of dividing 3 by 4, noting that 3/4 multiplied by 4 equals 3, and that when 3 wholes are shared equally among 4 people each person has a share of size 3/4. If 9 people want to share a 50-pound sack of rice equally by weight, how many pounds of rice should each person get? Between what two whole numbers does your answer lie?
Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system.
5.MD.1 Convert among different-sized standard measurement units within a given measurement system (e.g., convert 5 cm to 0.05 m), and use these conversions in solving multi-step, real world problems.
Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
5.G.1 Use a pair of perpendicular number lines, called axes, to define a coordinate system, with the intersection of the lines (the origin) arranged to coincide with the 0 on each line and a given point in the plane located by using an ordered pair of numbers, called its coordinates. Understand that the first number indicates how far to travel from the origin in the direction of one axis, and the second number indicates how far to travel in the direction of the second axis, with the convention that the names of the two axes and the coordinates correspond (e.g., x-axis and x-coordinate, y-axis and y-coordinate).
5.G.2 Represent real world and mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane, and interpret coordinate values of points in the context of the situation.
Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems.
4.OA.2 Multiply or divide to solve word problems involving multiplicative comparison, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem, distinguishing multiplicative comparison from additive comparison.
Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.
5.NF.3 Interpret a fraction as division of the numerator by the denominator (a/b = a ÷ b). Solve word problems involving division of whole numbers leading to answers in the form of fractions or mixed numbers, e.g., by using visual fraction models or equations to represent the problem. For example, interpret 3/4 as the result of dividing 3 by 4, noting that 3/4 multiplied by 4 equals 3, and that when 3 wholes are shared equally among 4 people each person has a share of size 3/4. If 9 people want to share a 50-pound sack of rice equally by weight, how many pounds of rice should each person get? Between what two whole numbers does your answer lie?
Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system.
5.MD.1 Convert among different-sized standard measurement units within a given measurement system (e.g., convert 5 cm to 0.05 m), and use these conversions in solving multi-step, real world problems.
Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
5.G.1 Use a pair of perpendicular number lines, called axes, to define a coordinate system, with the intersection of the lines (the origin) arranged to coincide with the 0 on each line and a given point in the plane located by using an ordered pair of numbers, called its coordinates. Understand that the first number indicates how far to travel from the origin in the direction of one axis, and the second number indicates how far to travel in the direction of the second axis, with the convention that the names of the two axes and the coordinates correspond (e.g., x-axis and x-coordinate, y-axis and y-coordinate).
5.G.2 Represent real world and mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane, and interpret coordinate values of points in the context of the situation.
Focus Standards for Mathematical Practice
MP.1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Students make sense of and solve real world and mathematical ratio, rate, and percent problems using representations, such as tape diagrams, ratio tables, the coordinate plane, and/or double number line diagrams. They identify and explain the correspondences between the verbal descriptions and their representations and articulate how the representation depicts the relationship of the quantities in the problem. Problems include ratio problems involving the comparison of three quantities, multistep changing ratio problems, using a given ratio to find associated ratios, and constant rate problems including two or more people or machines working together.
MP.2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Students solve problems by analyzing and comparing ratios and unit rates given in tables, equations, and graphs. Students decontextualize a given constant speed situation, representing symbolically the quantities involved with the formula, distance = rate x time.
MP.5 Use appropriate tools strategically. Students become proficient using a variety of representations that are useful in reasoning with rate and ratio problems such as tape diagrams, double line diagrams, ratio tables, a coordinate plane and equations. They then use judgment in selecting appropriate tools as they solve ratio and rate problems.
MP.6 Attend to precision. Students define and distinguish between ratio, the value of a ratio, a unit rate, a rate unit, and a rate. Students use precise language and symbols to describe ratios and rates. Students learn and apply the precise definition of percent.
MP.7 Look for and make use of structure. Students recognize the structure of equivalent ratios in solving word problems using tape diagrams. Students identifying the structure of a ratio table and use it to find missing values in the table. Students make use of the structure of division and ratios to model 5 miles/2 hours as a quantity 2.5 mph.
MP.1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Students make sense of and solve real world and mathematical ratio, rate, and percent problems using representations, such as tape diagrams, ratio tables, the coordinate plane, and/or double number line diagrams. They identify and explain the correspondences between the verbal descriptions and their representations and articulate how the representation depicts the relationship of the quantities in the problem. Problems include ratio problems involving the comparison of three quantities, multistep changing ratio problems, using a given ratio to find associated ratios, and constant rate problems including two or more people or machines working together.
MP.2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Students solve problems by analyzing and comparing ratios and unit rates given in tables, equations, and graphs. Students decontextualize a given constant speed situation, representing symbolically the quantities involved with the formula, distance = rate x time.
MP.5 Use appropriate tools strategically. Students become proficient using a variety of representations that are useful in reasoning with rate and ratio problems such as tape diagrams, double line diagrams, ratio tables, a coordinate plane and equations. They then use judgment in selecting appropriate tools as they solve ratio and rate problems.
MP.6 Attend to precision. Students define and distinguish between ratio, the value of a ratio, a unit rate, a rate unit, and a rate. Students use precise language and symbols to describe ratios and rates. Students learn and apply the precise definition of percent.
MP.7 Look for and make use of structure. Students recognize the structure of equivalent ratios in solving word problems using tape diagrams. Students identifying the structure of a ratio table and use it to find missing values in the table. Students make use of the structure of division and ratios to model 5 miles/2 hours as a quantity 2.5 mph.