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Student Voices: What Does Each Rate Mean?

Interpret and describe unit rates using a school newspaper’s student opinion survey, with tables, fractions, and error analysis.

Grade 6MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to6.RP.A.2

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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 6
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students find the unit rate a/b associated with a ratio a:b.
  • Students describe unit rates using per and for each with correctly ordered units.
  • Students distinguish a rate from its reverse in survey contexts.

How to use

Use after introducing ratios. Have students label the units in each quotient, then discuss the final error-analysis question.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

6.RP.A.2

Understand the unit rate a/b that goes with a ratio a:b (b not zero) and describe it with words like per and for each.

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Student Voices: What Does Each Rate Mean?

Interpret unit rates in a school newspaper’s opinion survey.

Read the Survey Notes

The school newspaper is surveying student opinions. Use each set of notes separately. Include the meaning of the units when interpreting a rate.

1.
Nia collects 48 responses about cafeteria choices in 6 minutes.

The average collection rate is   responses per minute.

2.
Omar spends 10 minutes collecting 40 responses about homework. Which statement describes 10 ÷ 40?
  • A. He averages 4 minutes per response.
  • B. He averages 1/4 response per minute.
  • C. He averages 1/4 minute per response.
  • D. He averages 4 responses per minute.
3.
Each interviewer receives the same number of students to interview about library hours.
Library-Hours Survey Assignment
StudentsInterviewers
153

There are   students for each interviewer.

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