Activities

1. A pancake recipe calls for cups of flour and tablespoon of vanilla extract.  How many cups of flour per tablespoon of vanilla extract are needed in the pancake recipe?

2. You are creating a project in social studies that requires you to draw a map using the scale the given scale of inch is equal to mile.  How many inches per mile are represented by the scale on the map?

3. A new sports car can travel miles in 0.5 seconds.  What is the cars speed in miles per second?  Show your work.

4. Find the missing side length (x) given the information on the rectangle below.

5. Lisa is keeping track of how many sit-ups she can do in gym class.  In her last class she was able to complete 5 sit ups in minutes. 

1. Fill in the chart below to find out how many sit ups she can do in one minute. 

2. Show your work on how to find the amount of sit ups per minute without using the chart.

6. Chris is starting a new workout routine.  If he goes for a walk he can travel mile in hour.  When he is riding his bike he can travel mile in hour. 

1. What is Chris’s speed in miles per hour for walking and biking? Show your work for each speed.
2. How much faster is he traveling when he is riding his bike compared to walking? Show your work.

7. It is summer time and you are filling your pool up outside.  The hose can put gallons of water in the pool every hour. 

1. What is the rate of gallons per hours that the pool is being filled? Show your work.
2. If it takes you 5 hours to fill the pool, how many gallons is your pool?  Show your work.
3. The pool springs a leak at a rate of 8 gallons per hour, how long before the pool is empty? Show your work

Answer Key/Rubric

1. cups of flour or cups of flour

2. inches

3. miles per hour.  Student work might include but is not limited to,

• Convert 0.5 to a fraction and reduce 
• 

4. The missing side length is inch. Student work might include but is not limited to,

• Area = base • height

• Use inverse operation to solve for the variable

• = x

• = x

• = x

5. Lisa can do 20 sit ups in one minute.

Part B) Student work might include but is not limited to,

• 5 ÷ =

• =

• =

• sit ups or 20 sit ups

6. Chris’s speed for walking is miles per hour and his speed for biking is miles per hour.  Student work might include but is not limited to,

• Walking  ÷ =

• Walking • =

• Walking = = miles per hour

• Biking ÷ =

• Biking •=

• Biking = = miles per hour

Part B) Chris is traveling miles per hour faster on his bike than walking.  Student work migh include but is not limited to,

• =

• miles per hour faster

7. The pool is being filled at a rate of gallons per hour.  Student work might include bit is not limited to

• gallons per hours

Part B) The pool holds 412 gallons of water.  Student work might include but is not limited to,

• 412 gallons

Part C) The pool would be empty after hours. Student work might include but is not limited to,  

• 412 ÷ 8 =
• 51.5 or hours