Unit rate

Learn all about unit rate and how it is used in various contexts. Discover practical examples and improve your mathematical skills with these helpful tips and tricks.
8th Grade Maths, Equivalent Fractions, Math Intervention, Math Center, Math Class, Secondary Math, Math Curriculum, High School Math, 8th Grade Math

In this video, learn a strategy for solving unit rate problems. In the accompanying classroom activity, students watch the video then use grocery store ads to calculate unit rates and compare prices. They share solution strategies and consider ways that unit rates can facilitate making comparisons. To get the most from the activity, students should be comfortable finding equivalent fractions and have had some exposure to the concepts of ratio and unit rate.

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Tara Elizabeth
How many times have you seen unit price fails at the grocery store? Or at really any store? Pricing errors happen all the time and it's important for kids to know they happen. In this post I link some more unit price fail photos and also unit rate activities, including a unit price digital escape room, a set self-checking unit rate solve 'n check math task cards activity and a unit rate math pennant activity. More at scaffoldedmath.com 7th Grade Maths, Task Cards, Homeschool Math, Middle School Math, Teaching 6th Grade, Math Task Cards, 7th Grade Math, Grade 6 Math, Consumer Math

How many times have you seen unit price fails at the grocery store? Or at really any store? Pricing errors happen all the time and it's important for kids to know they happen. In this post I link some more unit price fail photos and also unit rate activities, including a unit price digital escape room, a set self-checking unit rate solve 'n check math task cards activity and a unit rate math pennant activity. More at scaffoldedmath.com

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