Grade 6 Math Unit 3 Ratios & Rational Numbers

Unit 3 - Ratios & Rational Numbers


Content Emphasis/ Big Ideas

In this unit, students continue to develop number sense with fractions and decimals and begin thinking about percents. They also begin to work with ratios and how ratios relate to fractions, decimals, and percents. Students should make connections among representations (stories, pictures, concrete models, symbols).

Standards:

  • 6.NS.1 The student will reason and use multiple strategies to express equivalency, compare, and order numbers written as fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, and percents.
  • 6.PFA.1 The student will use ratios to represent relationships between quantities, including those in context.

Skills:

  1. Representing Ratios
  2. Equivalent Fractions, Decimals, & Percents
  3. Unit Rate
  4. Additional Resources

Representing Ratios

Instructional Videos

All About Ratios

Introduction to Writing Ratios

Practice Items

Basic Ratio Practice

Identifying and representing Ratios

Skills Based Games

Making Ratios Game

Equivalent Ratios Game

Equivalent Fractions, Decimals, & Percents

Instructional Video

Practice Items

Representing Fractions, Decimals, and Percents

Identifying visual fractions, decimals, and percents

Skill Based Game

Ordering Fractions, Decimals, & Percents Game

Unit Rate

Instructional Videos

Additional Resources:

STMath (60 Minutes recommended per week)

Math At Home