Unit 2

Unit Rate
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Table of Contents

Topic and Aim

Page #

Unit Overview

Task

Rubric

Goal Setting Contract

Glossary

Unit Toolkit

Lesson 1 Topic: Ratios to Rates

Aim: How can we understand unit rate and its relationship to ratios?

Lesson 2 Topic: Unit Rate and Other Equivalent Ratios

Aim: Given a rate, how can we calculate the unit rate and other equivalent ratios?

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Lesson 3 Topic: Unit Rate and Other Equivalent Ratios

Aim: Given a rate, how can we calculate the unit rate and other equivalent ratios?

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Lesson 4 Topic: Comparing Rates

Aim: How can we compare rates using ratio tables and word problems?

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Lesson 5 Topic: Converting Between Measurements

Aim: How can we use rates to convert between measurements?

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Lesson 6 Topic: Speed Problems

Aim: How can we solve speed problems?

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Lesson 7 Topic: Calculating and Comparing Unit Rates

Aim: How can we solve constant rate work problems by calculating and comparing unit rates?

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Lesson 8 Topic: Percent

Aim: How is percent related to rates and fractions?

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Lesson 9 Topic: Percent

Aim: How can we find the percent of a quantity?

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Unit Reflection

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Notes

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Unit Overview

Preview your notebook (look at the topics, aims, key points/vocabulary, etc.). Using complete
sentences write a paragraph or two, summarizing what you already know about these topics.

Now think about what you are going to learn this unit. Write down 3 questions that you have
about this unit. You will be answering these questions during our end of unit summary.

1)

2)

3)

Additional Thoughts:

Unit Task

To celebrate how hard everyone is working, we are planning on a class party in math
class! No class party is complete without yummy food. You will be given a budget for
the party and a list of items to purchase. To ensure that we are getting the best deal on
everything that we are buying, and are able to buy everything on the list, you will have
to use your knowledge of unit rate to compare prices from different stores. Using unit
rate to help you plan this party will help you to become a savvier shopper; a skill that
can save you a lot of money throughout your life!
Happy Planning!

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Novice

Do-Now

Mini Lesson

Rubric
Apprentice

3 or fewer DoNows were

attempted

Student took
few notes
during the
mini lessons

Practitioner

4-6 Do-Nows were

attempted
Student
demonstrated
some level of
understanding
through
completion

Student took
some notes during
the mini lessons

Leveled
Practice

Supplemental
Activities*

Student
completed
mostly level 1
practice
Practice was
completed
with little
accuracy
Few
supplemental
materials were
completed
with short
responses

Student
completed mostly
level 1 and 2
practice
Practice was
completed with
some accuracy

Some
supplemental
materials were
completed with
short responses
Student
responded to
some teacher
notes

Expert

7-8 Do-Nows
were attempted
Student
demonstrated
some level of
understanding
through work
shown and
explanation
Student took
most notes
during the mini
lessons
Notes were
organized and
easy to read

Student
completed
mostly level 1, 2
and 3 practice
Practice
completed was
mostly accurate

Most
supplemental
materials were
completed with
informed
responses
Student
responded to
some teacher
notes

9 Do-Nows were
attempted
Student
demonstrated
some level of
understanding
through
justification
Students took all
notes during the
mini lessons
Notes were
organized and
easy and to read
Additional notes
were taken from
their own
connections to
material
Student
completed
mostly level 1, 2
and 3 practice
Practice
completed
demonstrated
mastery
All supplemental
materials were
completed with
thoughtful
responses
Connections are
evident from
notes, completed
work and real life
experiences
Student
responded to
teacher notes

Goal Setting Contract

In our class we believe that:
We can grow in our intelligence.
If we work hard we will learn.
If we meet a goal, we should push ourselves to a higher level of achievement.
In order to do this, we need to develop:

Do not be afraid of admitting your strengths and weaknesses

and learning as much as possible from them.
Write a reflection on your performance during our last unit. What are some things you did really well? What are
some things you could work on?

On my Unit 1 test I got a ____________________.

Reflecting on your performance thus far this semester, write a goal for yourself for this second unit. Think
specifically about how you are going to accomplish this goal.

I ___________________________ (sign name) agree to work towards accomplishing my goals this unit.

Glossary

Below you are responsible for writing definitions for this units vocabulary (IN YOUR OWN WORDS) and
including a visual representation of the word.

Vocabulary

Definition

Visual Representation

Rate

Unit Rate

Percent

Proportion

Variable

Unit Toolkit
Helpful Websites

Class website: S2Math6.weebly.com

Extra Practice: https://www.ixl.com/math/grade-6
Multiple-Choice Strategies
1) Number of the Day: Choose 1 answer choice at the start of the test. For example, (3). Whenever you are
stuck on a question and forced to guess, ALWAYS put down (3). This increases your probability of getting these
questions right.
2) Plug and Chug: Plug in each multiple-choice answer until you find the correct answer.
3) Process of Elimination: Eliminate answers you KNOW are wrong. For example, if you know the value must be
positive, eliminate all negative numbers.
4) Guess and Check: If you have an idea about the answer but are unsure, test your answer out before moving
on!
5) Annotate: Underline parts of the question that are important. Pay attention to units, and words like NOT or
ONLY.
6) When in doubt calculator! Your calculator can be a super useful tool! Use your calculator to graph functions
or find equations.
Free Response Strategies
1) Use RUN: Read, Underline and Annotate! Use 2) Rephrase the question in your own words. What is
Highlighters, different colored markers/ pens if it helps this problem really asking me to do?
you to organize your thoughts.

3) Visualize it! Draw a picture/ diagram/ chart/

representation/ etc. that models what you are seeing
in the problem. This is a great way to organize your
thoughts! Just make sure that you dont spend too
much time doing this and that you work on just
getting key ideas down!

4) After doing some combination of the strategies

above, before you even start solving the problem,
BRAINSTORM strategies for how you are going to
solve the problem!

Lesson 1
Aim: How can we understand unit rate and its relationship to ratios?
Do Now!
Ms. McHugh loves Shark Bites Fruit Snacks. On Amazon, you can buy two boxes of Shark Bites for $13.24.

1) How much does one box of Shark Bites cost?



2) How much would it cost if Ms. McHugh wanted to buy 4 boxes of Shark Bites?



3) How much would it cost if Ms. McHugh wanted to buy 6 boxes of Shark Bites?



Vocabulary/Key Points!

1) Ratios can be transformed to rates and unit rates.

2) A rate is a quantity that describes a ratio relationship between two types of quantities. For example, 15 miles per
hour is a rate that describes a ratio relationship between hours and miles. If an object is traveling at a constant 15
miles/hour, then after one hour it has gone 15 miles, after 2 miles it has gone 30 miles, after 3 miles it has gone 45 miles
and so on.

3) A unit rate compares the amount to its unit of measurement. It shows how many units of the first type of quantity
correspond to one unit of the second type of quantity. For example, miles per hour, heartbeats per minute, cost per
item, etc.
Explore!
You and your partner will each choose one of the following activities to do for 1 minute; hopping on one foot, or doing
jumping jacks. One partner will perform the selected activity, while the other partner counts how many times that
activity is done in one minute. Both partners will then record the data and switch for the second activity. After
completing the activity, answer the following questions.
Jumping Jacks per Minute
Hops on One Foot per Minute


Name:
Name:




Jumping Jacks per Minute:
Hops on One Foot per Minute:




How many jumping jacks do you think they could do in 10
How many times do you think they could hop on one foot
minutes? Show your work below.
in 5 minutes? Show your work below.

Task 1!

A store was selling 8 mangos for $10 at the farmers market.

Keisha said, That means we can write the ratio 10 : 8, or $1.25 per mango.

Luis said, I thought we had to write the ratio the other way, 8 : 10, or 0.8 mangos per dollar."

Can we write different ratios for this situation? Explain why or why not. Show your thinking using the spacing below.

Which is a more useful ratio to use? Explain your thinking.

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Task 2!

A school carnival ticket booth posts the following sign:

1) Which amount of tickets offers the best deal? Show your thinking below.







a. 2) How would you suggest the students running the ticket booth modify the list of prices?

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Journal!
Read the following article from Consumer Reports and then answer the question below.

"At $3.58 a pound, the 5-ounce cans (left) are better deals than the larger, 12-ounce ones. When packaged food and
household products are sold in more than one size, the largest often is the best deal, with a lower cost per ounce,
pound, or other unit. But that's not always the case, which means buying the bigger package won't always save you
money on groceries over the long run.

Sometimes, instead of giving you a per-unit discount for a larger item, stores impose a so-called quantity surcharge for
certain products, such as some brands of canned tuna, ketchup and laundry detergent. One study found that, in some
supermarkets, as much as 25 percent of brand-name products are a poorer value in the larger size.

We found several examples during a recent visit to a New York Target store. For instance, a 40-ounce jar of Market
Pantry peanut butter had a unit price $2.26 per pound, 9 cents per pound more than the 18-ounce size. A 150-fluid-
ounce jug of Up&Up laundry detergent had a unit price of $2.86 per quart, about 5 cents more per quart than the 100-
fluid-ounce jug. And the $4.12 per pound unit price for a 12-ounce can of StarKist tuna was a whopping 54 cents per
pound more expensive than the 5-ounce one.
How can understanding unit rate help you to be a savvier shopper that saves money?

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Lesson 2
Aim: Given a rate, how can we calculate the unit rate and other equivalent ratios?
Do Now!
Take a look at Planet Fitness sign on the right. Would you purchase an 18-month gym membership for $199?
Why or why not?











Vocabulary/Key Points!

1) A unit rate compares the amount to its unit of measurement. It shows how many units of the first type of quantity
correspond to one unit of the second type of quantity. For example, miles per hour, heartbeats per minute, cost per
item, etc.

2) All ratios associated with a given rate are equivalent because they have the same value.

Explore!
Look at the following options. Decide which deal is the best deal and write the unit rate of that option on the line
provided.
Option 1

Option 2

Oreos
$3.00 for 15 oz.

Chips Ahoy
$1.50 for 7.5 oz.

Doritos
$4.39 for 11.5 oz.

Cheetos
$2.24 for 9.75 oz.

Coca-Cola
$1.29 for 1.25 L.

Pepsi
$2.49 for 2 L.

Best Deal
The best deal is




The unit price is: ___________

The best deal is




The unit price is: ___________

The best deal is




The unit price is: ___________

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Mini Lesson!
Steps for Finding Unit Rate

1. Identify number is the total and which is the number of items.
2. Divide the total by the number. The answer is the unit rate.
There were 120 students in 4 classrooms. How many
students were in 1 classroom?

6 boxes can hold 36 books. What is the ratio of books per

box?







What is the unit rate?







Check for Understanding!
We paid $40 for 8 hamburgers. What is the rate per
There are 75 pints of juice in 5 containers. What is the
hamburger?
ratio of pints of juice per container?








What is the unit rate?







Please check your work. If you get both correct, begin at level 2. If you get 1 correct, begin at level 1. If you get both
incorrect, please proceed to the reteach station.
Level 1!
40 centimeters of snow in 20 hours.
32 customers in 4 checkout lanes.




Ratio: ________________
Ratio: ________________


Rate: _________________
Rate: _________________

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216 cherry pieces in 6 bags of candy.

Ratio: ________________

Rate: _________________

92 dollars for 46 TV channels.


Ratio: ________________

Rate: _________________

120 dollars for mowing 4 lawns.

Ratio: ________________

Rate: _________________

70 copies in 7 minutes.


Ratio: ________________

Rate: _________________



Level 2!
A pencil company used 60 grams of rubber to make 10 An industrial machine is able to make 9 pens in 3 seconds.
pencils, which is a rate of __________ grams per pencil.
What is the rate made per second?












It took a pet store 10 weeks to sell 80 cats. What is the For every 4 miles Vanessa jogged, Cody jogged 3 miles. If
rate sold per week?
Vanessa jogged 1 mile, how far would Cody have jogged?











A candy company used 8 gallows of syrup to make 4 A baker used 4 cups of flour to make 5 batches of
batches of candy. What is the rate of syrup per batch?
brownies. He used ________ of a cup of flour to make 1
batch of brownies.

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Level 3!
A bookstore was selling 5 books for $27.25. Online, you At the store, beef jerky cost $73.70 for 5 lbs. If you bought
could buy 6 books for 32.16. Which has a lower unit price? 7 lbs, how much would it cost?
















In September, a clothing store had a sale where you could At the grocery store, you can buy 4 bags of bananas for
get 3 scarves for $13.35. In October, the price was $22.52. How much would it cost if you were to buy 5 bags?
changed to 5 scarves for 22.65. Which month had the
better deal and why?












An ice company charges $3.40 for 4 bags of ice. If a At the baseball stadium, the price for popcorn is 15.36 for
convenience store buys 6 bags of ice, how much will it cost 6 bags. If you wanted to buy two bags of popcorn, how
them?
much would it cost?















Journal!
Describe a real life situation using what we learned about unit rate today.

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Lesson 3
Aim: Given a rate, how can we calculate the unit rate and other equivalent ratios?
Do Now!
How would you define unit rate?

Vocabulary/Key Points!

1) We can convert measurement units using rates. The information can be used to further interpret the problem.

Mini Lesson!
At Fun Burger, the Burger Master can make hamburgers at a rate of 4 burgers/minute. In order to address the heavy
volume of customers, he needs to continue at this rate for 30 minutes. If he continues to make hamburgers at this pace,
how many hamburgers will the Burger Master make in 30 minutes?







Chandra is an editor at the New York Gazette. Her job is to read each article before it is printed in the newspaper. If
Chandra can read 10 words/second, how many words can she read in 60 seconds?








Station Practice!
Helena works for a publishing firm. She is considered an average typist and can type 52 words/minute. If she continues
at this rate, how many words would Helena type in 4 minutes?





Jaxon test-drives cars for a car company. Part of his job is to test the cruise control on a testing course. On his last test
drive, Jaxon set the cruise control at 48 miles/hour and drove for 2 hours. How many miles did Jaxon drive?

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To train for an upcoming marathon, Alvin runs 9 miles a day. If Alvin runs 9 miles every day for 30 days, how many total
miles will he run?






A library just hired Brittany to write reviews on different books. The job requires Brittany to read 3 books/week. If
Brittany reads at this pace for 12 weeks, how many books will she read?






Notebooks are on sale for 4 notebooks/dollar. Mrs. Day wants to buy notebooks for her students but only has $12 to
spend. How many notebooks can Mrs. Day buy?






Kevin hopes to earn a college basketball scholarship. To improve his shooting skills, Kevin shoots 50 baskets/day. If Kevin
shoots 50 baskets every day for 60 days, how many shots would Kevin take?





Journal!
Write and solve your own unit rate problem below.

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Lesson 4
Aim: How can we compare rates using ratio tables and word problems?
Do Now!

Five lemons cost $1.80.

a. What is the cost per lemon?




b. At this rate, what is the cost of 9 lemons?






Vocabulary/Key Points!
Steps for Solving Word problems

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Read the problem!

Annotate the problem, pulling out important information.
Rephrase the question in your own words.
Pay attention to units of measurement.
Visualize the problem.
Find or develop the formula to use.
Solve and check your answer!

Mini Lesson!
1) A T-shirt launcher can launch 5 shirts in 20 minutes. What is the rate in shirts per hour?


T- Shirt Launch
5
1
Minutes

20

Unit Rate: 5/20 =

2) Lauren took 12 hours to read a 360-page book. At this rate, how long will it take her to read a 400 page book?


Hours
12
1

Pages

360

30

400

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Check for Understanding!

1) Pat wants to enter a typing contest. In order to enter, one has to be able to type 50 words per minute. Pat took 15
seconds to type 10 words. Can he enter the contest?
Seconds

15

Words

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2) Amy drove to her mothers house, which is 204 miles away. If it took her 3 hours, what was her average speed per
hour?
Miles

204

Hours

Mixed Practice!
Create ratio tables to solve the following word problems!
A skydiver falls 144 feet in three seconds. How far does the A pump moves 42 gallons in seven minutes. Find the unit
skydiver fall per second?
rate.

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You score 84 points in six games. How much do you score

per game?
























Maria walks 12 miles in 3 hours. How many miles does she
walk per hour?

Steve drives 78 miles on 3 gallons of gas. Find the miles

per gallon.

Sonya can walk 6 kilometers in 3 hours. If she has to walk

10 kilometers, how much time will it take her?

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Tom always keeps his 4 gardens clean. He takes 20

minutes to clean a single garden. How much time will it
take to clean all four gardens?





















Mr. Brown has his own bakery. He baked 5 cakes per day.
Due to the occasion of Christmas, he started to bake 12
cakes per day. In the whole Christmas week how many
cakes will he bake?

Veronica loves to create creative things. She can make 5

craft pieces in 5 days. On the basis of a contract she has to
make 20 pieces of crafts. How many days will she take?

Mr. White can travel for 6 hours while taking 3 breaks of

10 minutes each. Once, he had to travel for 36 hours. How
many minutes in breaks did he take?

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Sofia learned 10 recipes to create party dishes. She learned

these recipes in two weeks. How many recipes can Sofia
learn in 5 weeks?

In our class, our class teacher gave us a project to

complete in 15 days. If the teacher assigned 4 consecutive
projects, how many days will you have to complete the
projects?












Miss Bird is going to launch an exhibition. Miss Bird can Charles is going to buy 3 computer tables for $390. If he
make 8 sculptures in 6 months. If she prepared 12 pays the same rate, how much would it cost for 8
sculptures, how much time would she take?
computer tables?














Journal!
How are ratio tables helpful for solving word problems?

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Lesson 5
Aim: How can we use rates to convert between measurements?
Do Now!

Vocabulary/Key Points!

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Mini Lesson!
Identify the ratios that are associated with conversions between feet, inches, and yards.

12 inches = foot; the ratio of inches to feet is .

1 foot = inches; the ratio of feet to inches is .

3 feet = yard; the ratio of feet to yards is .

1 yard = feet; the ratio of yards to feet is .

1) How many feet are in 48 inches?



Feet

Inches

2) How many grams are in 6 kilograms?



Kilograms


Grams

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Check for Understanding!

1) How many cups are in 5 quarts?










2) How many quarts are in 10 cups?











Check your work. If you get both correct, you may start at Level 2. If you only get one correct, please start at Level 1. If
you get both incorrect, proceed to the reteach station.
Level 1!
1) How many inches are in 3 feet?
2) How many feet are in 9 yards?










3) How many centimeters are in 5 meters?
4) How many pounds are in 64 ounces?

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5) How many milliliters are in 7 liters?

6) How many quarts are in 3 gallons?

Level 2!
1) Charlie's eraser has a mass of 20 grams. How many 2) Cheryl is moving to a new house. Her old house is 3
milligrams are in 20 grams?
kilometers from her new house. How many meters is the

old house from the new house?

















3) A box contains 4 bags of sugar. The total mass of all 4 4) If one paperclip has the mass of 1 gram and 1,000
bags is 6 kg. What is the mass of each bag in grams?
paperclips have a mass of 1 kilogram, how many kilograms

are 8,000 paperclips?

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5) Jessica's shoebox is 20 centimeters long and 10 6) Stan walks 2 kilometers a day. How many meters does
centimeters wide. How many more millimeters is the he walk in two days?
length of the shoebox than the width?


















Level 3!
1) A peach weighs 65 grams. If you buy 10 peaches and 2) Jacob has four gerbils, which weigh 20g, 22g, 24g and
they sell for $5.50 per kilogram, how much will they cost? 26g. What is the total weight of the gerbils in milligrams?























Journal!
Describe a real life situation where you would convert measurement units.

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Lesson 6
Aim: How can we solve speed problems?
Do Now!

Vocabulary/Key Points!

Distance Formula
Distance = Rate (or speed) x Time

Rate is a very important type of ratio, used in many everyday problems, such as grocery shopping, traveling, medicine--
in fact, almost every activity involves some type of rate. Miles per hour or feet per second are both rates of speed.
Number of heartbeats per minute is called "heart rate." If you ask a babysitter, "What is your rate?", you are asking how
many dollars per hour you will be charged. The little word "per" is always a clue that you are dealing with a rate.
Mini Lesson!
1) Let's say you rode your bike 2 hours and traveled 24 miles. What is your rate of speed?











2) Next, you ride 18 miles and travel at a rate of 12 miles per hour. How long did this take you?

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Check for Understanding!

1) A police car drives with a constant speed of 80 miles per hour. How far can it travel in 2 1/2 hours?














2) An airplane flies with a constant speed of 700 miles per hour. How long will it take to travel a distance of 1400 miles?

Check your work. If you get both correct, you may start at Level 2. If you only get one correct, please start at Level 1. If
you get both incorrect, proceed to the reteach station.
Level 1!
A girl cycles for 3hrs at a speed of 40 km/h. What distance A car travels a distance of 540km in 6 hours. What speed
did she travel?
did it travel at?

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The distance between two cities is 144 km; it takes me A train travels at a speed of 30mph and travel a distance of
3hours to travel between these cities. What speed did I 240 miles. How long did it take the train to complete its
travel at?
journey?

























Level 2!
I drove my car on cruise control at 65 miles per hour for 3 On a road trip the speed limit changed to 50 miles per
hours without stopping. How far did I go?
hour in a construction zone and it took me 15 (.25 hours)

minutes to get through the zone. What was the distance of

the construction zone?




























Juan has just completed a 5-kilometer race It takes 2 hours for a turtle to move a distance
in 20 minutes. What was his average speed in kilometers of 60 meters. How fast in kilometers per hour is the turtle
per hour?
moving?

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Level 3!
You need to get to class, 200 meters away, and you can How far can you get away from your little brother with the
only walk in the hallways at about 1.5 m/s. (if you run any squirt gun filled with paint if you can travel at 3 m/s and
faster, youll be caught for running). How much time will it you have 15s before he sees you?
take to get to your class?














You arrive in my class 45 seconds after leaving English
which is 90 meters away. How fast did you travel?

It takes Serine 0.25 hours to drive to school. Her route is

16 km long. What is Serines average speed on her drive to
school?













Journal!
How can knowing the distance/rate/time formula help you in real life?

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Lesson 7
Aim: How can we solve constant rate work problems by calculating and comparing unit rates?
Do Now!

Vocabulary/Key Points!

1) If work is being done at a constant rate by one person, and at a different constant rate by another person, both rates
can be converted to their unit rates and then compared directly.

2) Work can include jobs done in a certain time period, rates of running or swimming, etc.

3) Rate is a very important type of ratio, used in many everyday problems, such as grocery shopping, traveling,
medicine--in fact, almost every activity involves some type of rate. Miles per hour or feet per second are both rates of
speed. Number of heartbeats per minute is called "heart rate." If you ask a babysitter, "What is your rate?", you are
asking how many dollars per hour you will be charged. The little word "per" is always a clue that you are dealing with
a rate.
Mini Lesson!
1) Suppose that on a Saturday morning you can cut 3 lawns in 5 hours, and your friend can cut 5 lawns in 8 hours. Who
is cutting lawns at a faster rate?








2) Suppose you own a restaurant. You want to do some advertising so you hire 2 students to deliver take out menus
around town. One student, Alfred, delivers 350 menus in 2 hours, and another student Devin delivers 510 menus in 3
hours. You promise a $10 bonus to the fastest worker since time is money in the restaurant business. Who gets the
bonus?

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Check for Understanding!

1) Which runs faster: a cheetah that can run 60 feet in 4 seconds or a gazelle that runs 100 feet in 8 seconds?












2) One bag of pretzels costs three dollars. Five bags of pretzels cost $10. Which has the lower unit price?

Check your work. If you get both correct, you may start at Level 2. If you only get one correct, please start at Level 1. If
you get both incorrect, proceed to the reteach station.
Level 1!
Whats the better deal, 1 apple for $.50 or 3 for $1?
Whats the better deal, 1 CD for $15 or 2 for $25?










Marcus needs to wear ties for his new job. At the Monica needs soup. The store has a special 5 cans for
department store, ties are 19 dollars each or 3 for $60. $10. If she buys just 1 can of soup the cost is $2.20. Which
Should he get the special deal?
is the better deal?

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Level 2!
Who walks a faster rate: someone who walks 60 feet in 10 Babysitting for 8 hours and making $72.00 or babysitting
seconds or someone who walks 42 feet in 6 seconds?
for 6 hours and making $57.00. Whats the better deal?

One math student John can solve 6 math problems in 20

minutes and another student Jill can solve 6 math
problems at the rate of 1 problem per 4 minutes. Who
works faster?













Which parachute has a slower descent: a red parachute
that falls 10 feet in 4 seconds or a blue parachute that falls
12 feet in 6 seconds?

If Charlies Peanut Butter Fudge costs $1.50 per pound,

how many pounds can you buy for $20.00?

Who walks a faster rate: someone who walks 60 feet in 10

seconds or someone who takes 5 seconds to walk 25 feet?

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Level 3!
An 11-pound turkey costs $15.00, while the 16 pound A 12 oz box of Thanksgiving stuffing is $2.15, while a 16 oz
turkey is on sale for $20.00. How much would you save box costs $2.88. Which is the better buy?
with the sale price?












Fun Films, Inc. is offering a package deal of 6 movie passes Coach Smith went to a store to buy tennis balls. The
for $42. If 1 movie pass normally costs $10, how much will following packages of tennis balls are available at this
you save by taking advantage of this movie bargain?
store. 3 tennis balls for $4.95 4 tennis balls for $6.00

Coach Smith needs to buy 24 tennis balls. How much

money will she save by purchasing 24 tennis balls in

packages with the lowest unit price compared to the

highest unit price?















Journal!
How is finding unit rate helpful in receiving the best deal?

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Lesson 8
Aim: How is percent related to rates and fractions?
Do Now!
Complete the following 10 X 10 grid.
Example: 65 boxes out of 100 boxes are shaded.
Shade 24 out of 100 boxes and write the percentage.


24
65
= ____%
= 65%
100
100

Vocabulary/Key Points!

1) Percent means parts per hundred. For example, 25% means 25 out of 100.

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2) Percentages can be used as rates. For example, 20% of a quantity means times the quantity.
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3) A 10 X 10 grid can be used show percentage, where each square in the grid represents 1% or 0.01.


4) Fractions, decimals, and percentages are all related.


5) To change a fraction to a percentage, you can scale up or down to make 100 the denominator.
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6) You can also convert a fraction to a percent by writing the fraction in decimal form first.
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Mini Lesson!
Scaling Up or Down to Make 100 the Denominator
Converting Fractions to Decimals to Percent


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Check for Understanding!

Scale the following fractions up or down to find the
Convert the following fractions to percent:
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Check your work. If you get all four correct, you may start at level two. If you get three or fewer correct, please start at
level one. If you get all incorrect, proceed to the reteach station.

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Level 1!
Use the 10 X 10 grids below to show each percentage given. Write each percent in fraction and decimal form.

1) 32%

2) 88%

Fraction form: _____ Decimal form: _____

Fraction form: _____ Decimal form: _____

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Level 2!
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Level 3!
Convert each of the fractions below to a percent. Show your work.

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Lesson 9
Aim: How can we find the percent of a quantity?
Do Now!
1) Fifty-three out of 100 students at S2 take the bus to school and the rest walk. What percentage of students take the
bus to school and what percentage walk?








2) Nine out of 10 teachers at S2 live in New York City. What percentage of teachers live outside of the city?









Vocabulary/Key Points!

1) A proportion is an equation stating that two ratios are equal. For example, 2:3 = x:12
2) Percent problems include the part, whole, and percent.

3) We can solve percent and proportion problems using the formula below and paying attention to key words.

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4) A variable is the missing number in an equation (usually represented by a letter, like x or y)

5) We can find the value of a variable in a percent or proportion problem by using cross-multiplication.

a) To solve percent word problems, first determine what is already given (for example, the part, the whole, the
percent).

b) Then, plug the numbers into the formula above.

c) Last, use cross multiplication to solve for the variable (x).

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Mini Lesson!
Finding the Percent of a Quantity
2) 455 is 70% of what number?

1) Find 20% of 230.

3) 45 is what percent of 180?

Check for Understanding!

2) 602 is what percent of 860

1) Find 40% of 360.

3) 720 is 75% of what number?

After you check your work, please begin the mixed practice.

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Mixed Practice!
Complete the following problems using cross-multiplication.
1) What is 30% of 90?

2) 8 is what percent of 20?

3) 18 is 40% of what number?

5) 476 is 85% of what number?








7) 12 out of 30 students studied Spanish, What percent
studied Spanish?








9) Martin went to the store to buy groceries. He spent
$56 total for items that normally cost $60. What percent
was the discount?

4) What is 25% of 312?

6) 14 out of 56 students got an A. What percent got an

A?

8) There are 18 girls in class. If this is 40% of the students

in class, how many students are there in all?

10) The math teachers wanted to throw their students a

pizza party for doing so well on their ratios exams. The
pizza shop gave them a 20% discount on their order. If they
spent $104 on their order, how much would the pizza cost
at regular price?

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Journal!
Write and solve your own percent problem below.

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Unit Reflection

Look back on your questions from the Unit Overview. Rewrite them below and answer your questions using
what you learned this unit.

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Use the space below to write a reflection on this unit. Summarize what you learned, questions that you still have
and how what you learned this unit is real life applicable.

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Notes

Use the space on this page for any additional notes that you wish to take throughout this unit. This will be good
practice for upper level courses where you will be responsible for taking your own notes.

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