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Ratio tables and tapes: 6th grade math

Ratio tables, tape diagrams, double number lines; plot ratio pairs. A free 6th grade lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: ratio tables, tape diagrams, double number lines; plot ratio pairs.

Teach (10 min)

  • Equivalent ratios are the same comparison. Multiply both numbers by the same number to make one.
  • 3 : 4 times 2 is 6 : 8. Adding the same number to both (5 : 6) breaks the ratio.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/ratio6.equiv?lesson=6-ratio6-equiv-1&at=6

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Three questions on a slip:
  • 1. Which ratio is equivalent to 7 : 6?
  • 2. Which ratio is equivalent to 2 : 3?
  • 3. Which ratio is equivalent to 4 : 3?

Question set

3 questions that read in words, easiest first. Questions that need a picture are on the printable sheet below.

  1. Which ratio is equivalent to 7 : 6?
  2. Which ratio is equivalent to 2 : 3?
  3. Which ratio is equivalent to 4 : 3?
Answers
  1. 28 : 24
  2. 8 : 12
  3. 20 : 15

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Ratio tables and tapes (6th grade)

  1. Which ratio is equivalent to 3 : 2?
  2. The ratio of cups of flour to cups of sugar is 1 : 6. How many cups of sugar go with 5 cups of flour?
    cups of flourcups of sugar165?
  3. The ratio of red beads to white beads is 3 : 5. How many white beads go with 6 red beads?
    red beadswhite beads356?
  4. The ratio of dogs to cats is 2 : 1. How many cats go with 10 dogs?
    dogscats2110?
  5. Which ratio is equivalent to 7 : 6?
  6. Which ratio is equivalent to 3 : 2?
  7. Which ratio is equivalent to 6 : 5?
  8. The ratio of bikes to scooters is 8 : 14. How many scooters go with 28 bikes?
    bikesscooters81428?
  9. Which ratio is equivalent to 7 : 5?
  10. Which ratio is equivalent to 3 : 7?
  11. The ratio of cups of flour to cups of sugar is 24 : 15. How many cups of sugar go with 16 cups of flour?
    cups of flourcups of sugar241516?
  12. The ratio of bikes to scooters is 27 : 24. How many bikes go with 32 scooters?
    bikesscooters2724?32
Key
  1. 9 : 6
  2. 30 cups of sugar
  3. 10 white beads
  4. 5 cats
  5. 28 : 24
  6. 9 : 6
  7. 12 : 10
  8. 49 scooters
  9. 21 : 15
  10. 6 : 14
  11. 10 cups of sugar
  12. 36 bikes

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