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Proportions & Unit Rates: Two Truths & a Lie
Proportions & Unit Rates: Two Truths & a Lie
Proportions & Unit Rates: Two Truths & a Lie
Proportions & Unit Rates: Two Truths & a Lie
Proportions & Unit Rates: Two Truths & a Lie
Proportions & Unit Rates: Two Truths & a Lie
Proportions & Unit Rates: Two Truths & a Lie
Proportions & Unit Rates: Two Truths & a Lie
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Description

Give your students a chance to practice and solidify their understanding of proportional reasoning with this engaging activity! This resource is ideal for Grade 6 students who have just been introduced to the skill and for Grade 7 students who need review and reinforcement.

Students examine four real-world math situations presented as tables, graphs, ordered pairs, and word problems. For each set, they analyze three statements, identify the two truths and one lie, and then correct the false statement to make it true. This interactive format combines practice with error analysis, encouraging students to confront misconceptions, explain their reasoning, and build confidence with proportional relationships.

Skills Covered:
✔ Distinguishing proportional vs. non-proportional relationships
✔ Calculating and interpreting unit rates
✔ Writing equations for proportional situations
✔ Identifying and correcting common mistakes through error analysis

What’s Included:

  • Four unique scenarios
  • Three statements per set (two truths and one lie)
  • Clear, student-friendly directions
  • A “Work Space Sheet” for rewriting and correcting false statements
  • Complete Answer Key with explanations and corrections

Perfect For:

  • Practice to strengthen a newly introduced skill
  • Review and reinforcement of a key ratio/proportion concept
  • Independent, partner, or group work
  • Math centers or stations
  • Error analysis activities and test prep

This resource makes proportional reasoning practice fun and interactive while helping students develop accuracy, confidence, and critical thinking skills.

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Proportions & Unit Rates: Two Truths & a Lie

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Description

Give your students a chance to practice and solidify their understanding of proportional reasoning with this engaging activity! This resource is ideal for Grade 6 students who have just been introduced to the skill and for Grade 7 students who need review and reinforcement.

Students examine four real-world math situations presented as tables, graphs, ordered pairs, and word problems. For each set, they analyze three statements, identify the two truths and one lie, and then correct the false statement to make it true. This interactive format combines practice with error analysis, encouraging students to confront misconceptions, explain their reasoning, and build confidence with proportional relationships.

Skills Covered:
✔ Distinguishing proportional vs. non-proportional relationships
✔ Calculating and interpreting unit rates
✔ Writing equations for proportional situations
✔ Identifying and correcting common mistakes through error analysis

What’s Included:

  • Four unique scenarios
  • Three statements per set (two truths and one lie)
  • Clear, student-friendly directions
  • A “Work Space Sheet” for rewriting and correcting false statements
  • Complete Answer Key with explanations and corrections

Perfect For:

  • Practice to strengthen a newly introduced skill
  • Review and reinforcement of a key ratio/proportion concept
  • Independent, partner, or group work
  • Math centers or stations
  • Error analysis activities and test prep

This resource makes proportional reasoning practice fun and interactive while helping students develop accuracy, confidence, and critical thinking skills.

Report this resource to TPT
Reported resources will be reviewed by our team. Report this resource to let us know if this resource violates TPT's content guidelines.

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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
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.
Recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities.
Decide whether two quantities are in a proportional relationship, e.g., by testing for equivalent ratios in a table or graphing on a coordinate plane and observing whether the graph is a straight line through the origin.
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