Unit 5: Proportional Reasoning
Unit 5, Proportional Reasoning started today! We began this unit by mixing icing colors and snacking on cookies!
During this unit, students are formally introduced to proportional reasoning with the building blocks of ratios, rates, and proportions. Students extend previous work with representing percents using concrete models and fractions. Students solve and represent problem situations involving ratios and rates with scale factors, tables, graphs, and proportions. These representations allow students to develop an understanding of how related quantities change together.
Below you will find four essential questions for this unit. In the next 15 days, your student should begin to develop ideas about these questions. These will not be on any test, however, I do believe that these key understandings will certainly help them be prepared for our units to come.
Unit 5 Essential Questions:
How are ratios and rates similar and different?
What relationships exist between rates describing quantities of different attributes?
How can proportions and unit rates be used to convert units of measure?
How can proportions be used to solve problems involving ratios? Rates?
Unit 5 Games and Practice:
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