Reasoning with Ratios and Rates

Reasoning with Ratios and Rates

Standards & Objectives

Essential and guiding questions: 
  • What is a unit rate? How do you calculate the unit rates?
  • What unit of measure do you use to describe a unit rate?
  • What does proportional mean?
  • How can proportional relationships be represented?
  • How can you tell if a relationship if proportional given a statement? Equation? Table? Graph?
  • What is the constant of proportionality?
  • What types of ratios can be used to represent percentages?
  • How are unit conversion factors written as ratios?

Task Arc Variations

Blooms taxonomy level: 
Understanding