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Understanding Ratios and Unit Rates

Understanding Ratios and Unit Rates

Assessment

Interactive Video

Mathematics

6th - 7th Grade

Practice Problem

Hard

Created by

Thomas White

FREE Resource

The video tutorial continues a review of sixth-grade math concepts, focusing on interpreting rates and unit rates. It begins with a recap of previous lessons on ratios and unit rates, using examples involving oatmeal. The teacher guides students through solving problems for Lynn and Diego, emphasizing the importance of understanding and manipulating ratios. The lesson then transitions to explaining unit rates with a cheesecake example, followed by problems involving milk and raffle tickets. Throughout, the teacher encourages students to think critically and use different strategies to solve problems.

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10 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the main takeaway from the introduction about ratios?

Ratios cannot be reversed.

Ratios are only used in cooking.

Ratios are always different.

Ratios can appear different but are the same when flipped.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How do you find a unit rate from a given ratio?

Add the two numbers together.

Multiply both numbers by 10.

Subtract the smaller number from the larger one.

Divide both numbers by the same number to make one of them 1.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In the oatmeal example, how much water is needed for 5 cups of oats?

5 cups

12.5 cups

15 cups

10 cups

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What strategy did Timothy suggest for solving Diego's oatmeal problem?

Subtracting the numbers

Dividing by 3 to simplify

Multiplying by 10

Adding 5 to each number

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a unit rate?

A rate per ten units

A rate per one unit

A rate per thousand units

A rate per hundred units

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How many ounces of cream cheese are needed for every ounce of sugar in the cheesecake example?

2 ounces

1.2 ounces

0.8 ounces

1 ounce

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the reciprocal of 4/5 in the context of the cream cheese and sugar example?

1/4

5/4

1/5

4/4

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