Little Red's Grocery Run - Unit Rate Performance Task

Description

Bring math to life with this fun, fairy-tale-themed performance task! Your students will help Little Red Riding Hood shop for her grandmother’s favorite lunch while practicing finding unit rates and comparing prices.

🛒 Task Overview:
Little Red Riding Hood is on her way to Granny’s house and wants to surprise her with a special lunch. Along the way, she can stop at Very Hungry Wolf’s Food Store or Strong, Brave Woodsman’s Food Mart. Both stores sell the items on her grocery list, but which one offers the best prices? Students will:

Calculate the unit rate for each item at both stores
Compare prices to determine the best value
Decide where Red should shop and explain their reasoning with specific details

✨ Why You’ll Love This Resource:

Two versions of a graphic organizer to differentiate for learners
Full-color grocery flyers for realistic, engaging price comparisons
Builds critical thinking, math reasoning, and real-world problem solving
Perfect for 6th-grade math standards focusing on unit rate and proportional reasoning

Turn a classic story into a fun, interactive math challenge that your students will actually want to complete!

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Little Red's Grocery Run - Unit Rate Performance Task

Name: Little Red's Grocery Run - Unit Rate Performance Task
Brand: Mx. Momentum
SKU: 15069487
Price: 1.00 USD
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Highlights

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Grades

6th - 7th

Subjects

Applied Math, Financial Literacy, Money Math

Standards

CCSS6.RP.A.1

CCSS6.RP.A.2

CCSS7.RP.A.1

Description

Calculate the unit rate for each item at both stores
Compare prices to determine the best value
Decide where Red should shop and explain their reasoning with specific details

✨ Why You’ll Love This Resource:

Two versions of a graphic organizer to differentiate for learners
Full-color grocery flyers for realistic, engaging price comparisons
Builds critical thinking, math reasoning, and real-world problem solving
Perfect for 6th-grade math standards focusing on unit rate and proportional reasoning

Turn a classic story into a fun, interactive math challenge that your students will actually want to complete!

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Questions & Answers

Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).

CCSS6.RP.A.1

Understand the concept of a ratio and use ratio language to describe a ratio relationship between two quantities. For example, “The ratio of wings to beaks in the bird house at the zoo was 2:1, because for every 2 wings there was 1 beak.” “For every vote candidate A received, candidate C received nearly three votes.”

CCSS6.RP.A.2

Understand the concept of a unit rate 𝘢/𝘣 associated with a ratio 𝘢:𝘣 with 𝘣 ≠ 0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship. For example, “This recipe has a ratio of 3 cups of flour to 4 cups of sugar, so there is 3/4 cup of flour for each cup of sugar.” “We paid $75 for 15 hamburgers, which is a rate of $5 per hamburger.”

CCSS7.RP.A.1

Compute unit rates associated with ratios of fractions, including ratios of lengths, areas and other quantities measured in like or different units. For example, if a person walks 1/2 mile in each 1/4 hour, compute the unit rate as the complex fraction ½/¼ miles per hour, equivalently 2 miles per hour.