Unit 1 Game Name:

Ratio Four Squares

What you need: 2 Recording Sheets (1 for each
player), number cubes (two labeled 1–6 and one
labeled 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12)

Directions
Name: Carrie
• ratios
Your goal is to create two equivalent
in each Ratio Box on the
Ratio Four Squares Record
ing Sheet

Ratio Box A
Recording Sheet and find the unit rate Ratio Box B
for each set of equivalent ratios.

• cubes.
Take turns. Roll all three number 6
Pick two of them to make a
ratio. You may choose to roll one, two,
12
or all three number cubes again 1

2
before picking two numbers. Unit rate:
6 4

5
• any
Unit rate:
2
Name the ratio. You can write the ratio in
Ratio Box that has a blank space.
Ratio Box C 12Ratio Box D
8
4

• can
If a Ratio Box already has one ratio, you
write the ratio in the blank space if it is 6
equivalent to the ratio that is already in the I know that ··
​ 12  ​ is
Ratio Box. equivalent to ·​ 21 ​.

• Box,
When you have two equivalent ratios in a Ratio
calculate the unit rate and write it in the
Unit rate:
There are a lot of
ways to write ratios
Unit rate:

space provided.
equivalent to ·​ 21 ​.
• equivalent
50
Using ·​ 21 ​will help me to
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ratios and unit rates.

complete the box.

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 Name:

Ratio Four Squares Recording Sheet

Ratio Box A Ratio Box B

Unit rate: Unit rate:

Ratio Box C Ratio Box D

Unit rate: Unit rate:

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 Unit 1 Practice Name:

Ratios and Proportional Relationships

In this unit you learned to: Lesson

write a ratio to describe the relationship between two quantities. 1

find the rate and unit rate associated with a given ratio. 2

compare ratios and find equivalent ratios. 3

solve unit rate problems. 4

solve percent problems. 5

Use these skills to solve problems 1–7.

1 Hui walks at a constant speed when he walks for exercise. The table shows how many
miles Hui can walk in different amounts of time. Complete the table.

Number of Miles Number of Minutes

1
​   ​
··2 6

24

42

2 Two identical boxes of softballs weigh a total of 480 ounces. Sixteen identical boxes of
baseballs weigh a total of 224 pounds. Does a box of baseballs weigh more or less than a
box of softballs? Explain.

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 Solve.

3 At basketball practice, Kyla made 60 free throws. This was 80% of her attempts. How many
free throws did Kyla attempt?
A 48 free throws C 75 free throws
B 68 free throws D 80 free throws

4 Jolene can read 10 pages in 20 minutes. How fast can she read? Select all that apply.
A 5 pages every 10 minutes C 1 page every 2 minutes

B 2 pages every 1 minute D ​  1 ​page every 1 minute

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2

5 Philip has 5 red counters, 6 yellow counters, and 9 green counters. Tell whether each
statement is True or False.
a. The ratio of yellow counters to green counters is 2 : 3. u True u False
b. The ratio of red counters to the total number of u True u False
counters is 1 to 3.
c. The ratio of all counters to yellow counters is ​ 10  .​
··
3
u True u False
d. Green counters make up 45% of all the counters. u True u False
6 Sanjeev is running a race that is 5,000 meters. He has finished 27% of the course. Use
benchmark percents to find how many meters he has run.
Show your work.

Solution:

7 Dawit was earning $100 per week in January. He got a raise of 10% in March, but then he
had a 10% reduction in his weekly pay after changing jobs in August. Was Dawit’s weekly
pay after August higher, lower, or the same as it was in January? Explain.

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 Unit 1 Performance Task Name:

Answer the questions and show all your work on

separate paper.

Your school has been awarded a $2,000 grant. You are

using the money to set up an office for the science club. Checklist
The items that you are considering are shown in the table.
You must buy at least one of each item. You can buy more Did you . . .
than one of any of the items as long as you stay within the complete all
$2,000 budget. the necessary
calculations?
The store that sells these products has offered to give you
the following discounts. label all the
• 10% off any television over $300 prices in your
• 15% off any laptop work?
• 5% off any printer or scanner check to make
sure your total
Television Laptop Printer Scanner is within the
32-inch 15-inch screen Black Basic scanner budget?
$230 $400 $120 $120
40-inch 17-inch screen Color Scanner and color copier
$320 $460 $250 $300
42-inch Touch screen
$400 $500

Help the science club make a plan.

• Tell the items that you will buy.
• Calculate the total cost, including all discounts.
• Find the amount left over from the grant.

Reflect on Mathematical Practices

After you complete the task, choose one of the following
questions to answer.
1 Persevere  Did you use estimation to get an idea of
about how many of each item you might order?
Explain.

2 Make Sense of Problems  How did you decide which

items to buy?

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 Performance Task Tips
Word Bank  Here are some words that you might use in
your answer.

percent add round

decimal sum estimate

multiply total subtract

Models  Here are some models that you might use to find
the solution.

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

Dollars ($)

Percent (%)

Sentence Starters  Here are some sentence starters that

might help you explain your work.

I chose to buy

To find the amount of the discount

The price after the discount

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 Unit 1 Vocabulary Name:

My Examples
corresponding terms
numbers that are in same position in two
or more related patterns.

ordered pair
a pair of numbers that locate a point on a
coordinate plane.

ratio
a comparison of two quantities.

rate
a ratio that compares the first quantity in
a ratio to only one of the second quantity.

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 My Examples
unit rate
the number in a rate that is being
compared to 1.

equivalent ratios
two or more ratios that are equal to
one another.
24 : 2, 36 : 3, 48 : 4

My Words

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