Pbs Learning Media: Solving Unit Rate Problems

This turn-key unit on ratios and unit rates walks through a 30-lesson unit on teaching proportional reasoning, with each lesson broken into detailed teaching notes and time allotments for all parts. An unbelievable resource when taken...

Eight word problems and a well organized answer sheet make up a practice page designed to reinforce unit rates. 

This "I <3 Math" episode defines unit rates and discusses their relationship to ratios. [2:01]

This interactive exercise focuses on volume equations, measurement, and problem solving skills to compare the volume of 3D figures constructed from similar amounts of construction materials.

Cupcakes, cupcakes, cupcakes! Where shall we buy some cupcakes? There are two stores selling cupcakes and we would like to know which one has the better deal. The instructor demonstrates how to find a unit rate for the cupcakes at each...

What is unit rate? How is a ratio converted to unit rate? Really, it's just about getting the denominator of a ratio to be 1. When the denominator is 1, the ratio is a unit rate. Check out this video as the instructor illustrates a few...

Learn how to use fractions to interpret food labels and make healthy eating choices.

In this lesson, students create and solve problems related to scale and write and perform a scene to share their problems and solutions. Media resources and teacher materials are included.

In this lesson plan, students use a graph to choreograph a dance figure. Media resources and teacher materials are included.

In this lesson plan, young scholars explore circumference and diameter by creating an abstract design with circles. Media resources and teacher materials are included.