Grade 6 - Number
Standard 6.N.5 - Find the ratio in a word problem.
Included Skills: Ratios
Demonstrate an understanding of ratio, concretely, pictorially and symbolically. • Achievement Indicators • Students who have achieved this outcome(s) should be able to: - Provide a concrete or pictorial representation for a given ratio. - Write a ratio from a given concrete or pictorial representation. - Express a given ratio in multiple forms, such as “three to five”, 3:5, 3 to 5, or 3/5. - Identify and describe ratios from real-life contexts and record them symbolically. - Explain the part/whole and part/part ratios of a set, e.g., for a group of 3 girls and 5 boys, explain the ratios 3:5, 3:8 and 5:8. - Solve a given problem involving ratio.