The benchmark(s) of focus is the primary focus for student learning and instruction to be taught or reinforced and provides an intentional opportunity for students to work with that concept or skill.
MA.6.AR.3.2
Given a real-world context, determine a rate for a ratio of quantities with different units. Calculate and int...
Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Instruction includes using manipulatives, drawings, models and words and making connections between ratios, rates and unit rates.
Clarification 2: Problems will not include conversions between customary and metric systems.
MA.6.AR.3.5
Solve mathematical and real-world problems involving ratios, rates and unit rates, including comparisons, mixt...
Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Instruction includes the use of tables, tape diagrams and number lines.
Supporting benchmarks either make a connection or may help students achieve the focus benchmark(s) and increase students’ opportunities to make connections within the subject or to other subjects. The information included in this section is not a comprehensive list, and educators are encouraged to find other supporting benchmarks.
MA.6.AR.3.1
Given a real-world context, write and interpret ratios to show the relative sizes of two quantities using appr...
Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Instruction focuses on the understanding that a ratio can be described as a comparison of two quantities in either the same or different units.
Clarification 2: Instruction includes using manipulatives, drawings, models and words to interpret part-to-part ratios and part-to-whole ratios.
Clarification 3: The values of a and b are limited to whole numbers.