Unit Rates Lesson: Rate Language & Finding the Unit Rate, Grades 6-7

A printer prints 96 pages in 4 minutes. How many pages in 1 minute? This lesson teaches students to answer that question and to say the answer the way mathematicians do: 24 pages per minute. A rate compares two quantities in different units, and the unit rate is the amount for 1 of the second quantity.

What's inside

• 18 slides, with speaker notes on all 18
• Lesson plan, 2 pages: standards, materials, objective, a teacher-guided sequence keyed to slide numbers, a "Watch For" note and a 25-minute version
• Scaffolded notes, 1 page, fill-in to match the slides
• Practice worksheet, 2 pages: 17 items
• Exit ticket, 3 questions, two to a sheet
• Answer key, 2 pages, with the steps and the filled-in tables and tape diagrams
• Print-all PDF, 8 pages, the day's lesson plan, notes, practice, exit ticket and answer key in one file

Answer key included

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