Illustrative Math Alignment: Grade 6 Unit 3

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What Are Ratios?

A ratio is the relationship between two or more quantities among a group of items.

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Percents

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This video covers calculating percent decreases in scenarios such as price reductions, vehicle depreciation, and cube dimension changes. Examples demonstrate the relationship between linear decreases and their exponential effects on surface area and volume. Applications include consumer goods, real estate, and geometry.

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Percents

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The video explains how to calculate simple interest using a formula involving principal, rate, and time. Examples include savings account growth, stock investments, and rare coin valuation. Applications include financial planning and historical item appraisal.

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Percents

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This video covers tax calculations for purchases, property, and VAT. Examples include grocery bills, iPad purchases, and real estate property taxes. Applications highlight the importance of understanding tax rates for budgeting and financial management.

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Percents

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The video demonstrates calculating tips and commissions using percentages. Examples include restaurant tips, real estate commissions, and catering costs. Applications focus on service industry calculations and earnings management.

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Percents

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This video demonstrates how to handle multiple percentage changes applied sequentially, including discounts and price fluctuations. Examples include double-discounted items, stock price variations, and gasoline price changes. Applications emphasize consolidating multiple percents into single calculations for efficiency in financial and retail scenarios.

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Percents

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The video explores percent-based probabilities in scenarios like dice rolls. Examples include calculating probabilities of specific outcomes and estimating occurrences over multiple trials. Applications include games of chance and statistical analysis.

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Percents

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The video explains the distinction between percent growth and multiple growth. Examples include doubling heights, stock price increases, and oil price changes. Applications emphasize clear understanding of percent versus multiplier concepts in finance and everyday math.

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Percents

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This video applies percents to measure slopes or grades, using ratios for rise over run. Examples include road inclines, ski slopes, and cycling paths. Applications showcase percents in engineering, sports, and transportation, emphasizing their practicality in measuring inclines accurately.

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Percents

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The video explains how to calculate percent increases, focusing on changes in school enrollments, asset values, and cube dimensions. Examples highlight the non-linear effects of changes on surface area and volume. Applications include finance, education, and geometry, emphasizing understanding growth trends.

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Ratios

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This video introduces the concept of ratios, which describe relationships between quantities. Key concepts include writing ratios in different forms (e.g., 2:3, 2/3, and 2 to 3) and simplifying ratios. It also covers part-to-part ratios and part-to-whole ratios using examples like sports balls and colored shapes. Applications include categorizing objects and exploring numerical relationships in sets.

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Ratios

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This video focuses on solving proportions algebraically, converting them into equations to solve real-world problems. Examples include predator-prey ratios, scaling pizza dough recipes, and creating shades of paint. The video demonstrates methods for handling terms in denominators and simplifying ratios to whole numbers.

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Ratios

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The video explains how proportions are used to create scale drawings, ensuring geometric figures remain proportional. Examples include finding dimensions in similar triangles, scaling architectural models, and solving geometric problems. The concept of proportional relationships is key to accurate scaling.

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Ratios

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This video demonstrates calculating rates from data sets, focusing on patterns like distance-time relationships and wages. Examples include determining car speeds, hourly wages, and unit costs of gasoline. Data tables are used to visualize and compute rates.

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Ratios

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Rates are linked to slopes in linear functions. The video explores calculating rates of change for graphs of speed, savings growth, and loan repayment. It highlights using the slope formula to interpret and solve practical problems.

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Ratios

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This video covers converting units using rates, with examples like speed conversion, currency exchange, and calculating seconds in a year. It emphasizes multiplication by conversion rates to transition between units effectively.

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Ratios

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Ratios are connected to percentages in this video. Examples include finding percentages of items in collections. It develops a formula for converting part-to-whole ratios into percentages.

Relevance to the Topic: This video is a crucial resource for understanding the concept of Ratios. It delves into mathematical foundations by exploring how ratios function in real-life scenarios, such as scaling, comparisons, or visual representations. The mathematical principles demonstrated include proportional reasoning, equivalence, and fraction comparisons.

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Ratios

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This video illustrates converting ratios to percents using visual aids like area models and grids. Examples include determining percentages of colored eggs, fruit types, and combinations of colored lights.

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Ratios

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The video explores working with ratios involving decimals, such as finding unit costs or recycling rates. Scientific notation and multi-step conversions are used to calculate speeds of spacecraft like Voyager I.

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Ratios

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The video covers practical applications of ratios for measuring slopes of roofs and ramps. Examples include comparing roof pitches, calculating base lengths of roofs, and determining ramp heights. Ratios provide clarity for gradual slopes.

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Ratios

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The video explains ratios involving more than two items, such as 1:3:4, and how they encompass multiple pairwise ratios. Applications include recipes where ingredients are combined in specific proportions. It demonstrates working forward and backward with ratios to identify components or adjust quantities proportionally.

This is part of a collection of video tutorials on the topic of Ratios and Proportions. This series includes a complete overview of ratios, equivalent ratios, rates, unit rates, and proportions. The following section will provide additional background information for the complete series of videos.

What Are Ratios?

A ratio is the relationship between two or more quantities among a group of items. The purpose of a ratio is find the relationship between two or more items in the collection.

Let's look at an example.

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Ratios

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This video focuses on ratios written with fractions, showing how to convert fractional ratios into whole-number ratios by eliminating denominators. Applications include recipes and ensuring proportions are maintained in measurements. It emphasizes mathematical manipulation to align ratios with practical uses.

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Ratios

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Ratios are compared to fractions, emphasizing differences between part-to-part and part-to-whole relationships. Examples include finding fractions of subsets within a collection and modeling classroom demographics. The video highlights deriving fractional equivalents from given ratios.

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Ratios

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The video showcases visual representations like tape diagrams, snap cubes, and grids to solve ratio problems. It includes examples such as determining quantities in coin collections and paint mixtures. Applications involve modeling real-world problems using clear, visual methods.

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Ratios

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Numerical methods for handling ratios are explored, such as double number lines and ratio tables. Examples include tropical punch recipes and fruit stand inventories. These methods simplify complex ratio calculations and are adaptable to various practical scenarios.

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Ratios

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This video explains generating and comparing equivalent ratios. Examples include simplifying fractions, determining similarity in geometric shapes, and integrating multiple ratios into a comprehensive ratio. Applications extend to geometry and proportional reasoning.

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Ratios

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This video introduces rates, a type of ratio comparing different units, such as distance over time (speed) or dollars per hour (wage). Examples demonstrate calculating rates and converting units. Applications include measuring efficiency and performing unit conversions.

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Ratios

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The video focuses on unit rates, where the denominator equals one. It includes practical examples like finding the cost per pound of bananas or determining hourly wages. Applications extend to conversions and scaling calculations for various real-world tasks.

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Ratios

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Proportions are explained as equivalent ratios used to solve real-world problems. Examples include matching juice mixtures and adjusting recipes. The video uses ratio tables and number lines to scale ratios proportionally in practical applications.