Unit Rate Word Problems Scavenger Hunt – 7th-8th Grade – PRINTABLE

Description

Are your students confident solving word problems involving unit rates? Can they make sense of proportions and use proportional reasoning? This class activity is FUN way to practice these skills and gets kids up and moving!

Use this as extra practice with kids in 7th or 8th grade to help them work on solving real world problems involving unit rates & proportions.

This scavenger hunt includes a variety of problems to practice using unit rates in the real world.

In addition, a recording page is included so students can show their work for each problem as they make their way around the room.

How the Scavenger Hunt Works:

The scavenger hunt includes 10 problems (half pages) for students to solve. To set it up, post all 10 problems in various locations around your room. Give each student a recording sheet and then you’re ready to get started!

To begin, kids can start with ANY of the problems. They solve it on their recording sheet and then have to FIND the solution somewhere around the classroom.

When they find the answer to the problem, they solve the NEXT problem in the scavenger hunt.

Eventually, they will end up back where they started and they’ll know they have completed the hunt correctly.

Math Skills Covered in the Unit Rate Word Problems Scavenger Hunt:

• Find the unit rate in a given situation
• Solve word problems involving proportions and unit rate

Tips for Using This Scavenger Hunt in the Classroom:

• Give kids a clipboard to make it easier to record their work and answers as they move about the room
• Let kids work with partners as they make their way through the scavenger hunt
• If you have a large class, assign kids a starting problem so they’re not all bunched together at the same location
• Collect the recording sheets as an informal assessment of how your students are doing
• Use this as an end-of-unit review, end-of-the-year review or as a substitute activity (be sure to do this with your students prior to leaving it with a sub so students know how it works)

Additional Skills Practice:

This download also includes 2 additional practice worksheets to provide students with additional, independent practice with finding unit rates.

Use these with students who need additional support and practice, as an individual assignment to review before completing the scavenger hunt, or to send home as homework practice.

There are two unit rate worksheets included.

On the first practice page, students match situations to an appropriate unit rate. This also includes a ‘challenge problem.’

On the second page, students complete tables for two different recipes in order to keep the ratios equivalent as the ingredient quantities change.

Included in the Download:

• Setup and Teaching Tips
• 10 Scavenger Hunt Problem Cards (half pages)
• Scavenger Hunt Recording Pages (print front/back)
• Two Independent Practice Worksheets
• Answer Keys for the Scavenger Hunt and Worksheets

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