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HI!! I’m Fiona. But my friends
call me “Fast Fingers”
because I can text faster than
any of my friends. I want to
challenge you to find out
who the faster texters are in
your class.
Is it you?
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While determining the fastest texter in your class, you
will be required to complete the following tasks. Click
the Process button below for details on how to complete
each task.
Task 1:
Complete VIP to-go and
Vocabulary foldable (click for
additional copies)
Task 2:
Complete class Text Rate
chart.
Task 3:
Write a step-by-step process
guide for next years 6th graders
on how to find the fastest
texter in their class and create
a Fotobabble or Animoto of
the process.
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Step 1:
To identify the fastest texters in your class, you must
understand how to calculate how fast a person can text
which is a RATE, a text rate.
Explore the bubbles (links) below to learn about unit rates.
Along the way, fill in your VIP to-go and foldable with the
missing information. Click here for an additional copy.
Rate: What is it?
Unit Rates –
Complete all
sections!
Rates are all around us!!
Watch Ratey the Math
Cat give you some
examples!
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Step 2:
Practice with your Partner
Click to play a game with your partner!
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Step 3:
With your partner, Complete the class Text
Rate Chart.
(Click for an additional chart)
Fill in the class Text Rate
chart with each students
text time.
Calculate each person’s
Text Rate (use your VIP togo if needed).
Write the students in
order of fastest to slowest
based on their Text Rate.
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Step 4:
With your partner, using what
you’ve learned about Rates,
create a process document for
next year’s 6th graders on how to
find the fastest texter in their
class.
This process document should be
1 page and include no more than
5 steps.
Be creative and have fun!!
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Step 5:
Using your process
document create a
Fotobabble or Animoto
and tweet it to me
@yasminefleming
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Congratulations!!
By learning how to calculate unit rate you know that
you are one of the fastest texters in your class!!
Check out the links below for more information on
texting records and unit rates.
If you have any questions, email me at
yfleming01@bellarmine.edu.
Guinness Book of Records –
Texting Records
Fun Interactive
Rate Practice
Why learn about ratios and
proportions?
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Core Standard:
6.RP.2 Understand the concept of a unit rate a/b associated with a ratio
a:b with b≠0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship.
Learning Targets:
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3.
I can apply appropriate unit rate, ratio and
proportion vocabulary in written format.
I can identify a unit rate.
I can calculate the unit rate.
Accommodations:
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Teacher Page
WebQuest – Unit Rate
6th grade Mathematics
Slides and websites can be printed for
students with limited/no computer access at
home.
Calculators can be used.
A writer/reader can be used, if necessary.
Students may be allowed extra time to
complete, if necessary.
Yasmine Fleming
yfleming01@bellarmine.edu