options: Ratios & Proportional Relationships: students learn to recognize, describe, represent, and reason with ratios, rates, proportional relationships, and percent.

Functions: students learn to define, use, and evaluate functions to model relationships between quantities.

Modeling: students learn to choose and use appropriate mathematics and statistics to analyze real-world empirical situations, improve decisions, and report on their conclusions and the reasoning behind them.

Number Systems and Quantity: students learn to understand the complex number system and reason quantitatively.

Number & Operations - Fractions: students learn to understand fractions as numbers and may work with them using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Number & Operations in Base Ten: students learn to work with the base-ten system and build place value understanding.

Operations & Algebra: students learn to solve problems using algebraic thinking and operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. They may learn to identify and explain arithmetic patterns, evaluate or manipulate numerical expressions, and reason with equations and inequalities.

Geometry: students learn to classify geometric figures by their properties, and understand and compare the relationships between them. Students develop and use formulas to compute lengths, areas, and volumes, and they use transformations to generate new shapes and compare existing ones. Geometry can be studied with and without coordinates.

Statistics & Probability: students learn to analyze and produce data distributions, and build understanding of univariate and bivariate data. They learn to interpret data, make statistical inferences, justify conclusions, understand rules of probability, and use probability to make decisions.

Counting & Cardinality: students learn to know number names and the count sequence, count to tell the number of objects, and compare numbers.

Measurement & Data: students learn to work with data and measure attributes such as time, money, length, area, and volume. They may learn to compare measurements to operations and convert between different units of measure.
problem_activity: Warm-up
In this activity, students encounter two distance-time ratios in which one quantity (distance) has the same value and the other quantity (time) has different values. Students interpret what the ratios mean in context, i.e., in terms of the speeds of two runners. There are several ways to reason about this with or without double number lines. Students may argue that since both runners ran for the same distance but Mai ran a shorter amount of time, she ran at a greater speed.
Students may also say that if Mai could run 3 miles in 24 minutes, at that speed, she would run more than 3 miles in 30 minutes. Since Jada only ran 3 miles in 30 minutes, Mai ran faster. The double number line that corresponds to these arguments may be as shown below.
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As students work, monitor for the different ways they reason about the situation and identify a few students to share different approaches later.
Launch
Explain to students that a treadmill is an exercise machine for walking or running. Explain that while the runner does not actually go anywhere on a treadmill, a computer inside the treadmill keeps track of the distance traveled as if she were running outside.
If desired, this video shows a person starting a treadmill and walking at a constant speed for a few seconds.
Video
Treadmill
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https://player.vimeo.com/video/304136549
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Students work on all parts of the activity silently and individually, then share their explanation with a partner.
Student Facing
Mai and Jada each ran on a treadmill. The treadmill display shows the distance, in miles, each person ran and the amount of time it took them, in minutes and seconds.
Here is Mai’s treadmill display:
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Here is Jada’s treadmill display:
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What is the same about their workouts? What is different about their workouts?
If each person ran at a constant speed the entire time, who was running faster? Explain your reasoning.
Student Response
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Anticipated Misconceptions
Because a person running on a treadmill does not actually go anywhere, it may be challenging to think about a distance covered. If this comes up, suggest that students think about running the given distances outside on a straight, flat road at a constant speed.
Activity Synthesis
Select a few students to share their reasoning about the speeds of the runners. If no students use a double number line to make an argument, illustrate one of their explanations using a double number line.
Remind students that even though a double number line is not always necessary, it can be a helpful tool to support arguments about ratios in different contexts.


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