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6th Grade Task: Reading Rates

Standards & Objectives

Essential and guiding questions:

Whole Group Questions:

What was the ratio in this problem?
How can I use a ratio to find unknown quantity?
Who can explain to the class how we would find the unit rate in this problem on the graph?
How could we find the unit rate from the table?
Is there more than one unit rate?
What does the unit rate mean?
Why would finding the unit rate help us answer the question?
What is the relationship between the table, graph and the equation?
Can someone pose another problem for the class by providing us a rate to use? (ie. Johnny drove 30 miles in 20 minutes and Stacy drove 24 miles in 15 minutes to get to the the movie theater. Which person was driving faster to get to the movies?)

Activity/Task Variations

Blooms taxonomy level:

Understanding

Differentiation suggestions:

Entry/Extensions:

Assessing and Advancing Questions

If students can’t get started….

Assessing:

What does the problem say?
What information is the problem giving me?
What could I do to help me organize or set up the problem?

Advancing:

Can you make a table organize the information?
Which tool would you like to use to organize this information to compare the rates, a table or graph? Why?

If students finish early….

Advancing:

Can you determine how many books each girl will read in 2 years? 3 ½ years?
Susan’s mom will give her $50.00 if she has reads 20 books in 2 years. At this rate, will she earn the $50.00?

Helpful Hints

Care should be taken to focus on unit rate, and a good discussion could be built around the do they know how to determine it from a table, graph or equation.

Originator:

Tennessee Department of Education