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What Is a Ratio?
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What Is a Ratio? 6th grade
📚 Part 1: Understanding Ratios
1. A ratio is a way to _____________ two quantities.
addcomparesubtractmultiply
2. Look at this group: 🔴🔴🔴🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
How many red circles are there? _____ How many blue circles are there? _____
How many red circles are there? _____ How many blue circles are there? _____
3. Using the circles above, which ratio correctly compares red to blue?
3 to 55 to 33 to 88 to 3
4. Check all the ways you can write the ratio "4 to 7":
4:74/77 to 44 + 7
✏️ Part 2: Writing Ratios
5. Look at this classroom scene: 6 pencils and 4 erasers
Write the ratio of pencils to erasers in three different ways:
Write the ratio of pencils to erasers in three different ways:
Word form: _____ to _____
Colon form: _____:_____
Fraction form: _____/_____
6. In a fruit basket, there are 2 apples and 8 oranges. What is the ratio of apples to oranges?
7. Create your own ratio problem using items in your classroom. Write the ratio in colon form.
🎯 Part 3: Success Check
8. Look at this pattern: ⭐⭐⭐⭐🌙🌙
The ratio of stars to moons is:
The ratio of stars to moons is:
4:22:44:66:4
9. Extension Challenge: Can you simplify the ratio 6:9 to its simplest form?
Simplified ratio: _____:_____
10. I Can Statement: Explain in your own words what a ratio is and give an example.
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