➕ 6th Grade Math · Unit 3
Unit Rates and Percentages
14 short narrated lessons in 3 chapters, each with pictures, a quiz with a hint and a second try, and an explanation for every answer.
Standards: 6.RP.A.2 6.RP.A.3
What your child will learn
Unit rates
- What Is a Unit Rate?Find a unit rate, the amount for one of something, like miles per hour or cost per item.
- Best Buy with Unit PriceCompare the unit prices of two sizes of the same product to find the better deal.
- Constant SpeedSolve problems about constant speed using distance, time and unit rates.
- Unit Rates Review ReviewReview finding and using unit rates.
Converting units with ratios
- Conversion RatesUse a conversion rate like twelve inches per foot as a ratio to change units.
- Converting with Ratio TablesConvert between units in the same system using a ratio table or double number line.
- Converting Between SystemsConvert between customary and metric units, like inches and centimeters, with a given rate.
- Converting Units with Ratios: Review ReviewReview converting measurement units with ratio reasoning.
Percentages
- What Is a Percent?Explain a percent as a rate per one hundred, like thirty percent meaning thirty out of one hundred.
- Percents as Fractions and DecimalsWrite a percent as a fraction and as a decimal, and link benchmark percents like twenty-five percent to one fourth.
- Finding a Percent of a NumberFind a percent of a quantity, like twenty percent of forty-five dollars, using a double number line or tape diagram.
- Finding the Whole from a PercentFind the whole when a part and its percent are known, like fifteen being thirty percent of what number.
- Percentages Review ReviewReview what percent means and how to solve percent problems.
- Unit 3 test: Unit Rates and PercentagesShow what you learned in the whole unit (Unit rates, Converting units with ratios, Percentages) by answering mixed questions.
Try a question from this unit
From the lesson “What Is a Unit Rate?”
A teenage girl jumps rope 150 times in 2 minutes at a steady pace. What is her unit rate in jumps per minute?
Show the answer
75 jumps per minute. Sharing 150 jumps equally over 2 minutes gives 75 jumps in each minute. The answer 300 multiplies instead of dividing, and 300 jumps would take her 4 minutes, not 1.
Hint kids see after a wrong try: “Per minute means for each single minute. Share the jumps equally among the minutes.”
Key words
- unit rate
- per
- unit price
- speed
- constant
- conversion
- rate
- ratio table
- metric
- customary
- percent
- per hundred
- benchmark percent
- percent of
- whole
- part
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