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Are you looking to make your proportion lesson a little bit more interesting? This worksheet can be turned into an activity for an entire period or given as a homework assignment depending on your student's skill level.
I got the idea for this lesson from a email forward I received that humorously compared the cost of gas to the cost of other common items. The students will have to complete two questions for each scenario...the unit rate and the cost of the item per gallon. For example, the average US gas cost $3.91 (at time of publishing) and the cost of a 16 oz. Pepsi costs $1.00. To find the unit rate of the Pepsi the student will divide $1.00 by 16 to get $0.63 per ounce. Next they will set up a proportion to find out how much it would cost per gallon. The students will then get to see how much more expensive it would be if we had to run our cars on various household products.
The math is fairly easy and the kids usually get a kick out of the results. It is a quick and easy way to break up the week.
If you find this worksheet helpful I would appreciate any feedback you would be willing to leave.
Thanks and happy teaching!!
I got the idea for this lesson from a email forward I received that humorously compared the cost of gas to the cost of other common items. The students will have to complete two questions for each scenario...the unit rate and the cost of the item per gallon. For example, the average US gas cost $3.91 (at time of publishing) and the cost of a 16 oz. Pepsi costs $1.00. To find the unit rate of the Pepsi the student will divide $1.00 by 16 to get $0.63 per ounce. Next they will set up a proportion to find out how much it would cost per gallon. The students will then get to see how much more expensive it would be if we had to run our cars on various household products.
The math is fairly easy and the kids usually get a kick out of the results. It is a quick and easy way to break up the week.
If you find this worksheet helpful I would appreciate any feedback you would be willing to leave.
Thanks and happy teaching!!
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Are you looking to make your proportion lesson a little bit more interesting? This worksheet can be turned into an activity for an entire period or given as a homework assignment depending on your student's skill level.
I got the idea for this lesson from a email forward I received that humorously compared the cost of gas to the cost of other common items. The students will have to complete two questions for each scenario...the unit rate and the cost of the item per gallon. For example, the average US gas cost $3.91 (at time of publishing) and the cost of a 16 oz. Pepsi costs $1.00. To find the unit rate of the Pepsi the student will divide $1.00 by 16 to get $0.63 per ounce. Next they will set up a proportion to find out how much it would cost per gallon. The students will then get to see how much more expensive it would be if we had to run our cars on various household products.
The math is fairly easy and the kids usually get a kick out of the results. It is a quick and easy way to break up the week.
If you find this worksheet helpful I would appreciate any feedback you would be willing to leave.
Thanks and happy teaching!!
I got the idea for this lesson from a email forward I received that humorously compared the cost of gas to the cost of other common items. The students will have to complete two questions for each scenario...the unit rate and the cost of the item per gallon. For example, the average US gas cost $3.91 (at time of publishing) and the cost of a 16 oz. Pepsi costs $1.00. To find the unit rate of the Pepsi the student will divide $1.00 by 16 to get $0.63 per ounce. Next they will set up a proportion to find out how much it would cost per gallon. The students will then get to see how much more expensive it would be if we had to run our cars on various household products.
The math is fairly easy and the kids usually get a kick out of the results. It is a quick and easy way to break up the week.
If you find this worksheet helpful I would appreciate any feedback you would be willing to leave.
Thanks and happy teaching!!
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Some good ideas and simple phrasing, but needs editing
Great value
I am a sped teacher for high school students working on unit pricing and real world application of ratios, so my students need a lot of scaffolding and clear instructions with multi-step activities like this. About half my class was able to follow my steps through the process, I think the worksheet could have done better without trying to explain butterfly method for conversion calculations.
I had to help them with two steps.
Step One: divide the price by the number of ounces to find the UNIT price.
Step Two: Multiply the unit price by 128 oz. to find the price per Gallon.
This elimnated the need for butterfly method.
This is a great real world activity. We had some great discussions about gas prices.
As a teacher who is teaching both virtually and in-person simultaneously, this resource was great for all of my students. Great resource!
Good activity
Good activity
Thanks!
great activity!
Thanks Theresa!
Thanks!
You're welcome!
Great activity - Thanks!
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the activity!
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