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Common Core · Grade 6 · Maths · Ratios & Proportional Relationships

7 curriculum codes

Maths

Ratios & Proportional Relationships

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.RP.A.1 — opens in a new tab

Understand the concept of a ratio and use ratio language to describe a ratio relationship between two quantities. For example, "The ratio of wings to beaks in the bird house at the zoo was 2:1, because for every 2 wings there was 1 beak." "For every vote candidate A received, candidate C received nearly three votes.

3 resources

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.RP.A.2 — opens in a new tab

Understand the concept of a unit rate a/b associated with a ratio a:b with b ≠ 0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship. For example, "This recipe has a ratio of 3 cups of flour to 4 cups of sugar, so there is 3/4 cup of flour for each cup of sugar." "We paid $75 for 15 hamburgers, which is a rate of $5 per hamburger."1

3 resources

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.RP.A.3 — opens in a new tab

Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations.

20 resources

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.RP.A.3.a — opens in a new tab

Make tables of equivalent ratios relating quantities with whole-number measurements, find missing values in the tables, and plot the pairs of values on the coordinate plane. Use tables to compare ratios.

5 resources

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.RP.A.3.c — opens in a new tab

Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/100 times the quantity); solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent.

21 resources