Using Maps and Scales to Get to the Basketball Hall of Fame

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Mathematics

Grade(s)

6

Overview

Students learn about proportions by using map scales to estimate travel distances. They use an understanding of ratios to calculate travel time using an estimated speed.

In this TV 411 activity, students watch a video clip in which two NBA stars plan a trip from Atlanta to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA. They learn to use map scales to estimate travel distances. They also learn to use ratios to calculate travel time using an estimated speed.

Mathematics (2019) Grade(s): 6

MA19.6.2

Use unit rates to represent and describe ratio relationships.

UP:MA19.6.2

Vocabulary

  • Unit rate
  • Ratio
  • Rate language
  • Per
  • Quantity
  • Measures
  • Attributes

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Characteristics of multiplicative comparison situations.
  • Rate and ratio language.
  • Techniques for determining unit rates.
  • To use reasoning to find unit rates instead of a rule or using algorithms such as cross-products.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Explain relationships between ratios and the related unit rates.
  • Use unit rates to name the amount of either quantity in terms of the other quantity flexibly.
  • Represent contextual relationships as ratios.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • A unit rate is a ratio (a:b) of two measurements in which b is one.
  • A unit rate expresses a ratio as part-to-one or one unit of another quantity.

CR Resource Type

Lesson/Unit Plan

Resource Provider

PBS

License Type

BY
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