Unit 2

Ratios and Proportions

Standards:
7.RP.A.1 - Compute unit rates associated with ratios of fractions, including ratios of lengths, areas and other
quantities measured in like or different units.

7.RP.A.2 - Recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities.

7.RP.A.3 -Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems. Examples: simple
interest, tax, markups and markdowns, gratuities and commissions, fees, percent increase and decrease,
percent error.

Big Ideas:
Proportional relationships exist in the real world all around you.
You can use proportional relationships to represent everyday rates of change.
You can solve real-world problems using proportional relationships and reasoning.

Essential Questions:
What characteristics can you use to generalize proportional relationships?
How can we use proportional reasoning to solve real-world problems?
What patterns can you identify and use to make conclusions that use proportional reasoning?

Prior Knowledge:

Unit Rates
Solving real-world problems with unit rates
Using ratios and rates to draw conclusions
Operations with fractions
Operations with decimals
Dividing and multiplying
Plotting points on a graph
Reading a coordinate graph

Common Misconceptions:

How to plot points and read a coordinate grid

How to arrange a Unit Rate (which amount is the numerator and which is the denominator)
Solving problems with complex fractions

Vocabulary:

Unit Rate
Ratio
Rate
Constant of Proportionality
Proportion
Proportional
Non-proportional
Origin
Percentage
Tax
Discount
Sale
Mark-Up
Interest
Commission

Key Knowledge and Skills:

Students will be able to calculate unit rates.

Students will be able to compare unit rates.
Students will be able to set up a proportion and solve for a missing component of this proportion.
Students will be able to recognize proportional relationships.
Students will be able to represent proportional relationships.
Students will be able to identify the constant of proportionality from a story problem.
Students will be able to identify the constant of proportionality from a graph.
Students will be able to identify the constant of proportionality from an equation.
Students will be able to identify the constant of proportionality from a table.
Students will be able to use the constant of proportionality to solve real-world problems.
Students will be able to apply percentages to solve real world problems on tax, discounts, sales, mark-ups,
interest and/or commission.

Formative Assessment Evidence:

Each day, I will design an exit slip to assess student mastery on the given objective for the day. Exit slips can
be paper questions, a question on plickers or even a series of questions on a platform like Kahoot.

There are also many ways that I can formatively assess without creating an exit slip. Having students show
thumbs up or thumbs down on a topic, giving a 3-2-1 rating with their hands or even just verbally talking to
their partners while I listen to their responses are manners in which I can assess whether students
understand.

Summative Assessment Evidence:

At the end of the unit, students will take a test that assesses all of the standards above. The test will include
multiple choice and higher-level writing prompts on objectives this unit.

Additionally, students will complete a project that allows them to show their mastery of proportional
relationships in a different manner than just completing the test. The project requires setting up proportions
and applying proportional reasoning to different aspects of their road trip.
Timeline:

Day 1: Day 2: Day 3: Day 4: Day 5:

Students will be Students will be Students will be Students will be Students will be
able to calculate able to calculate able to compare able to compare able to set up a
unit rates. unit rates. unit rates. unit rates. proportion and
solve for a missing
component of this
proportion.

Day 6: Day 7: Day 8: Day 9: Day 10:

Students will be Students will be Students will be Students will be Students will be
able to set up a able to set up a able to recognize able to recognize able to represent
proportion and proportion and proportional proportional proportional
solve for a missing solve for a missing relationships. relationships. relationships.
component of this component of this
proportion. proportion.

Day 11: Day 12: Day 13: Day 14: Day 15:

Students will be Students will be Students will be Students will be Students will be
able to represent able to identify the able to identify the able to identify the able to identify the
proportional constant of constant of constant of constant of
relationships. proportionality from proportionality from proportionality from proportionality from
a story problem. a story problem. a graph. a graph.

Day 16: Day 17: Day 18: Day 19: Day 20:

Students will be Students will be Students will be Students will be Students will be
able to identify the able to identify the able to identify the able to identify the able to use the
constant of constant of constant of constant of constant of
proportionality from proportionality from proportionality from proportionality from proportionality to
an equation. an equation. a table. a table. solve real-world
problems.

Day 21: Day 22: Day 23: Day 24: Day 25:

Students will be Students will be Students will be Students will be Students will be
able to use the able to use the able to apply able to apply able to apply
constant of constant of percentages to percentages to percentages to
proportionality to proportionality to solve real world solve real world solve real world
solve real-world solve real-world problems on tax, problems on tax, problems on tax,
problems. problems. discounts, sales, discounts, sales, discounts, sales,
markups, interest markups, interest markups, interest
and/or commission. and/or commission. and/or commission.
Day 26: Day 27: Day 28: Day 29: Day 30:

Students will be Students will be Students will show Students will show Students will show
able to show their able to show their mastery of this mastery of this mastery of this
mastery of this mastery of this units objectives by units objectives by units objectives by
units objectives by units objectives by integrating a integrating a integrating a
reviewing for their scoring above an multitude of multitude of multitude of
summative test 80% on their proportional proportional proportional
tomorrow. summative test relationships to relationships to relationships to
today. build their own build their own build their own
hypothetical hypothetical hypothetical
road-trip. road-trip. road-trip.