Success Time - Ratios

More ideas for week 3 (Bar Models and Tables lessons) (Click here for PDF)

Keep in mind that our standard is 6.1.6, "Use models to represent ratios"

Fractions are another model that represents ratios. And clocks are a great way to represent fractions!

 

Success Plans

Some of the teachers and paras who do not regularly teach math were asking for some more direction regarding instruction for Success Time. I have taken my lesson plans for the first week of Success Time and have added some additional instructional information to make them easier to follow.

Update 9/12/13: I have adjusted the PDF file to correct a couple of typos in the worksheet and also to lower the numbers used in the problems. In giving instruction, I felt that using the larger numbers interfered with the students ability to understand desired learning goal.

Standard 6.1.6: "Use Models to Represent Ratios"

Link to PDF of lesson plans for 1st week of Success Time. These could easily be used for week 2 plans for someone who has not covered the material in this manner.

Hope you find this helpful!

Problems without Figures

I ran across this sheet in my Thinking Math materials from last year. The idea is to promote a mathematical understanding without looking at finding a specific answer. In other words, students must show a process for answering rather than an answer to a problem. Here is the sheet...

(Click on sheet for a PDF file)

A similar sheet could be used for developing an understanding of rates and ratios.

Link to PDF of Ratio Problems without Figures.

Link to Word Document of Ratio Problems without Figures.

This would be a great Success Time activity that could be done on multiple days!

Topic 2 - Review (6th Grade)

Here is a review based on the quiz questions for Topic 2. There is a slight "hiccup" around the 23 minute mark, where the audio is gone, but you can still pause the video and show the diagram to explain that rate is a function of both hours and dollars.

So the lesson I have learned here is break down the video into parts so that an error at the end does not require a complete restart!

Agile Mind T2-CR3

Solution to Constructed Response 3, Topic 2

Using Tables to Solve Rate and Ratio Problems

Here is about a 9 minute clip (created using the Educreations free app) helping students solve rate and ratio problems using tables.



 Also, here is a link to Rate as a Function of Slope.

Ratio Games

Ratio Blaster

In this game students must "blast" ratios that are alike before the space ships land. After the game is over it gives them information on how they did, and what errors they made.

Ratio Rumble (Mathsnacks.com)

In this game you must create the correct potion (based on the given ratio) before your opponent.

Bar Model with Rates and Ratios