Planning a Family Vacation

By Platform Administrator · Submitted Sep 30, 2026

Content Area: Mathematics
Grade: 6

Students compare rates to plan a cost-effective week long family vacation for their immediate family living at home. Students investigate relationships among choices of transportation, activities, and accommodations.

MA Standards

6.RP.A.3

Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations.

6.RP.A.3.b

Solve unit rate problems including those involving unit pricing and constant speed. For example, if it took 7 hours to mow 4 lawns, then at that rate, how many lawns could be mowed in 35 hours? At what rate were lawns being mowed.

Resources

Task Template (PDF) PDF · 204 KB
Task Template (Word) DOCX · 59 KB
Student Directions DOCX · 41.2 KB
Rubric DOCX · 1.72 MB
IB Rubric DOCX · 31.8 KB

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