Blue Monkey Math

Blue Monkey Math - your source for practice word problems! This worksheet contains a variety of word problems that require a thorough knowledge of how to find the unit rate and solve proportions. Answer Key included. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

This worksheet covers Dividing Fractions Word Problems similar to what your students will find on the PARCC exam. I based them off of the practice exam that they offer for free. Hope you find it to be useful!

Common Core Standard: 7.RP.1.1 - Unit Rate Problems that involve fractions, decimals and whole numbers. It also requires them to convert units (i.e. minutes to a fraction of an hour, or inches to a fraction of a foot). I teach my students what has proved to be a helpful 3 step method of writing out the rate in words first, then replacing the words with the numbers from the problem, then solving. This has helped them slow down and understand which number has to be the numerator and which num

A detailed lesson plan with definitions, examples and hints for how to help students remember the order in which to write ratios and how to not mess up when finding unit rate.