Ratios Lesson: What Is a Ratio? Ratio Language, Grades 6-7

Show students a row of 3 circles and 4 squares and ask how they could compare them. This lesson gives them the language: a ratio compares two quantities, and it can be written three ways, as 3:4, as "3 to 4" and as the fraction 3/4. All three forms are taught and used on the same picture.

What's inside

• 17 slides (PowerPoint, editable), with speaker notes on all 17
• Lesson plan, 2 pages, with a 25-minute version
• Scaffolded notes, 1 page
• Practice worksheet, 2 pages, 17 items
• Exit ticket, 3 questions
• Answer key, 2 pages
• PDF plus editable Word

Answer key included

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