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Cooking with the Whole Cup Lesson PlanCooking with the Whole Cup Lesson Plan
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Illustrative Mathematics
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6th - 7th
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30 mins
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Cooking with the Whole Cup

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Whoops! Travis accidentally put too much butter into the recipe. Your bakers must find out how to alter the recipe to accommodate different changes by using unit rates and ratios . The activity has multiple parts and calculations with great explanations in the solution. Learners can solve with or without creating a table. 

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

ratios, proportions, fractions, proportional reasoning, scale factors, tables, unit rates

Additional Tags

unit rate, ratio, ratio and proportions, making a table, fractions, proportional relationships, math

Pros

  • Real-world context
  • Detailed solutions
  • Multi-step problem

Cons

  • Needs prior knowledge of unit rates
  • No examples given

Common Core

7.RP.A.1 MP4

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