Day 35: Ratios Study Guide

6th Grade Math Standards: 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 ¾ cup of flour for each cup of sugar.” “We paid $75 for 15 hamburgers, which is a rate of $5 per hamburger.”

The Learning Objective: Find a unit rate

Quote of the Day: “A person’s happiness is related to the happiness of their friends, their friends’ friends, and their friends’ friends’ friends. We found that each additional happy friend increases a person’s probability of being happy by about 9%. By comparison, an extra $5000 in income increased happiness by about 2%.” – Dale Carnegie

Question from Yesterday (as always from a student): "Why would anyone ever want 0.8 of a pencil?" In response to finding a unit rate of 4.8 pencils per $1.

Assessment: Circumventing the room.

Agenda:

1. Entering the class students worked on the study guide
2. I passed back and collected weekly quiz materials as students worked on numbers 1 and 2.
3. We worked on each problem part by part until the ten questions were completed
4. Either Get to 10 or pepper to close out the class 

Glass-Half Full: The pace of the study guide was slow, but effective. I think it kept the students that were struggling involved better than simply giving the students the opportunity to do ten at a time.

Regrets: I wish there was something for the higher students to work on as they finished in some ways, but also believe that them helping students who were struggling was valuable as well.