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This is a 14-page PDF that contains a set of 24 task cards and 3 supporting worksheets that all focus on solving rate problems using a double number line diagram. These cards are directly aligned with Common Core 6.RP.A.3b, which involves solving rate problems. Each card presents the situation and gives a partially completed double number line diagram. The rate problems range in difficulty from beginner to intermediate. The worksheets then use a comparison of 2 different rates to determin

This is a set of 20 task cards designed for students learning how to write a proportion using a percent and either a missing part or whole. Each card consists of a situation that gives a whole number answer and uses a percent that is a multiple of 10%. I designed these to use with my above level fifth grade students. They have learned how to use proportions in other situations, transition to learning about percent as a ratio. I still want them to have practice completing proportions, so the

This is a set of 20 problem solving task cards that present two different prices at different stores for products. Students must use proportional reasoning/unit rate to calculate which is the better buy. The earlier task cards in the set all work out to whole number (or whole cent) prices. A few of the cards give them students decimal answers that must be rounded to find the unit price. Many of these problems can be "scaled up" to a common multiple or "scaled down" to a price for one object a

This is TWO sets of 24 task cards (48 cards total) designed to give kids practice using a proportion to solve problems involving a variety of rates. Each rate is presented on 2 cards with each giving a different approach to the rate. Each of the 24 card sets are available in separate listings for $3 per set. I teach above level 5th grade math, and I created the first set of task cards for their first real practice with applying rates in problem solving situations. I realized that the kids w

This is a set of 24 task cards that each present a rate and give students a question to solve based on that rate. Each answer gives either a whole number answer or a mixed number (with the fraction 1/2). There are 12 different rates presented (each one appears twice in the deck) and two different questions asked. In one case, students have to find the time needed for a given task, in the other the number of times the task could be completed in a given amount of time. Each situation could b

This is a set of 24 task cards designed to give kids practice using a proportion to solve problems involving a variety of rates. Each rate is presented on 2 cards with each giving a different approach to the rate. I teach above level 5th grade math, and I created a set of task cards in a separate listing that I used with my students first. I realized that the kids were having trouble with problems that involved halves (either in the ratio, or involving a rate that isn't a multiple of the nu