Math Games

Grade 6 - Number

Standard 6.N.8 - Understand and calculate the length using the scale factor.

Included Skills:

Demonstrate an understanding of ratio concretely, pictorially, and symbolically.
• Observe situations relevant to self, family, or community which could be described using a ratio, write the ratio, and explain what the ratio means in that situation.
• Critique the statement "Ratios and fractions are the same thing".
• Create representations of and compare part/whole and part/ part ratios (e.g., from a group of 3 boys and 5 girls, compare the representations boys to girls, boys to entire group, and girls to entire group - 3:5, 3:8, and 5:8 respectively).
• Express a ratio in colon and word form.
• Describe a situation in which a ratio (given in colon, word, or fractional form) might occur.
• Solve situational questions involving ratios (e.g., the ratio of students from a Grade 6 class going to a movie this weekend to those not going to a movie is 15:8. How many students are likely in the class and why?)