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Math Β· Grade 6 Math Β· Unit 3

Unit 3: Unit Rates and Percentages

Students develop understanding of unit rates and percentages, building on prior work with equivalent ratios and constant rates and using measurement and unit-conversion situations to reason about rates per 1 and rates per 100.

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What this unit covers

A Units of Measurement and Unit Conversion Β· 3 lessons
Goals
  • Recognize that when we measure things in two different units, the pairs of measurements are equivalent ratios. Apply this understanding to convert a measurement from one unit to another unit.
  • Use a β€œrate per 1” to solve problems involving unit conversion.
Lessons
  1. Anchoring Units of Measurement
  2. Measuring with Different-Size Units (Optional)
  3. Converting Units
B Rates Β· 6 lessons
Goals
  • Apply reasoning about ratios and unit rates to solve problems and explain the solution methods.
  • Calculate the two unit rates associated with a ratio and interpret them in the context of a situation.
Lessons
  1. Comparing Speeds and Prices
  2. Interpreting Rates
  3. Equivalent Ratios Have the Same Unit Rates
  4. More Rate Comparisons
  5. Solving Rate Problems
  6. More about Constant Speed (Optional)
C Percentages Β· 7 lessons
Goals
  • Choose a strategy to solve problems involving percentages and explain the solution method.
  • Create tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or tables to represent situations involving percentages.
Lessons
  1. What Are Percentages?
  2. Representing Percentages with Double Number Line Diagrams
  3. Representing Percentages in Different Ways
  4. Benchmark Percentages
  5. Solving Percentage Problems
  6. Finding This Percent of That
  7. Finding the Percentage (Optional)
D Let’s Put It to Work Β· 1 lesson
Lessons
  1. Painting a Room

Helpful to know first

The curriculum says this unit builds on these.

Grade 6 Math Β· Unit 2 Introducing Ratios
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Adapted from the Illustrative Mathematics curriculum (v.360), licensed CC BY-NC 4.0. Β© Illustrative Mathematics.