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Truffles AssessmentTruffles Assessment
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Noyce Foundation
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6th
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Truffles

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Knowing how to scale a recipe is an important skill. Young mathematicians determine the amount of ingredients they need to make a certain number of truffles when given a recipe. They determine a relationship between ingredients given a graph.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

ratios, equivalent ratios, relationships, proportional reasoning, independent variables, dependent variables

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • If possible, have learners actually make truffles
  • Team up with a family and consumer sciences teacher for the task

Classroom Considerations

  • Expects that learners can reason using ratios

Pros

  • Includes answer key and rubric
  • Each student work sample contains commentary on the possible errors and misconceptions

Cons

  • Rubric does not give an algebraic relationship as required in standard 6.EE.9

Common Core

6.RP.A.1 6.RP.A.2 6.EE.C.9 MP6 MP8

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