Real Estate Ratios & Unit Rate Project: Real Life Math – Grades 6-7 – PRINT

Description

Want to give your students an engaging, real-life example of using ratios, unit rates & percentages? This math project allows students to apply what they know while writing ratios, finding and comparing unit rates and calculating with percentages in the world of real estate.

In this differentiated project, students will take on the role of realtor to look at different housing options and calculate multiple ratios (based on the houses of their choice). Each student will create ratios for bedrooms and bathrooms for each house, calculate the cost (unit rate) per square foot, etc.

And if your students are ready, they can tackle the level C project, which includes calculating with percentages to find the down payment and total interest paid.

Simple, printable pages of “sample house listings” are included, giving students choices from the given set. This will allow you to use the included answer key.

However, to give students even more choice, you can allow them to find their own home listings in your area. Just be sure they print or take a picture of their listings, so you can check their work.

This is a fun way for 6th grade students to put their knowledge to work in a way that gives them choice & real life practice. You could even use this with 7th graders as a review of ratios, unit rate & percent in real life.

In order to be sure students have the prerequisite skills needed to complete the project, two warm-up pages are included to review ratios & percent.

Plus, you can easily differentiate for students’ needs and level because there are 3 different versions of the project included.

Meet your students where they are by choosing a project level that’s right for them!

Math Skills Needed for this Project:

• Write ratios
• Calculate unit rate (cost per square foot)
• Find the percent of a number given the total cost and the down payment amount
• Calculate the total interest paid given the interest as a percent (level C only)
• Solve multi-step problems to find the monthly payment (level C only)

Ways to Use the Project:

If you would like to complete the project in class, students could work with partners to split up the work and discuss the choices.

However, you could also assign this as an individual project at the end of your statistics chapter, to be completed at home (or in class if time allows).

This could also work as an extra credit project, early finisher challenge or end-of-year application project.

Included in the Download:

• Instructions/Tips for teachers
• 2 Warm-up pages: review of ratios & a review of percent problems
• 3 Projects (low, medium, high challenge levels) with Student recording pages
• Real estate ‘listings’ for each level of project
• 3 Grading Rubrics with assigned tasks/point values (different rubric for each level of the project)
• Blank Grading Rubric, allowing you to create your own criteria/point values
• Answer keys for warm-ups, discussion questions & all levels of projects

Please Note: This product is a downloadable pdf file. No physical product will be shipped to you. In addition, this resource is for personal use in the home or classroom only. You may not share, distribute, alter or post this resource online in any way. Thank you for your honesty!