What a Ratio Is

Grade 6 · Ratios · Page 1 of 2

Name Date
DIRECTIONS: Write each ratio in the order the question names them. “To ALL the shapes” counts every shape.
A ratio compares, it does not count. 2:5 red to blue could be 7 counters or 70. Say it 2 to 5, 2:5 or 2 for every 5.
redblue
a tape diagram: red to blue is 2:5, and every box holds the same amount
Part A — Write the ratio each question asks for.
1.

circles to squares  
2.

squares to circles  
3.

circles to squares  
4.

circles to ALL the shapes  
5.

squares to ALL the shapes  
6.

circles to ALL the shapes  

What a Ratio Is — continued

Grade 6 · Ratios · Page 2 of 2

Part B — Use the tape. Total ÷ ALL the boxes = one box.
  1. A jar holds red and blue counters in the ratio 4:3, red to blue. There are 70 counters in all. How many are red?
    redblue  
  2. An animal shelter keeps cats and dogs in the ratio 2:3, cats to dogs. There are 50 animals altogether. How many are dogs?
    catsdogs  
  3. A chess club has girls and boys in the ratio 5:3, girls to boys. The club has 80 members. How many MORE girls than boys are there?
    girlsboys  
Part C — Explain it.
  1. At the pet store the ratio of dogs to cats is 4:3. Jordan copies it down as 3:4 — “same two numbers, same thing.” What has Jordan changed, and why does it matter?
  2. The ratio of red to blue marbles in a bag is 3:2. Mia says the bag must hold exactly 5 marbles. COULD she be right? MUST she be? Explain.

The Narrator Is a Person

Any book · Reading closely · Page 1 of 2

Name Date
DIRECTIONS: Book open beside you. Give a page number with every answer, and copy lines exactly.
Somebody is telling you this story. They choose what you get told, in what order — and what to leave out.
The book
  1. Is the person telling this story in it, or standing outside it? Copy one line from anywhere in the book that settles it, and give the page.
  2. Find one place where that choice shows. If the teller is in the story: something that happened while they were not in the room, and how the book got it to you anyway. If the teller is outside it: somewhere you are told a thing no person in the book knows.

The Narrator Is a Person

Any book · Reading closely · Page 2 of 2

  1. Find a sentence that crosses more time than it takes to read — that winter passed slowly, by the time we moved house. Copy it with the page, then name three things that must have happened inside it and are not in the book.
  2. Find a line where you are told what somebody is thinking — not their face, not what they said aloud, the inside. Copy it, with the page.
  3. How could the teller possibly know that? Somebody who is in the story cannot read minds. So: were they guessing from something they could see, were they told about it later, or has the book quietly forgotten who is talking? Decide, and say what decided it.
  4. Find something you were told late that could have been told on page one. What was it, which page did it arrive on, and what had you believed until then?

Most of It Is You

What keeps a body working · Page 1 of 2

Name Date
DIRECTIONS: You have a cold. Read the box, then say whose side each symptom is on, and what it is for.
Nearly all of it is you.

A cold virus is not big enough or busy enough to make a whole person ache. What it does is get in and copy itself. What makes you FEEL ill is your own body noticing and responding.

The heat is your body deliberately turning itself up, because most germs copy themselves best at your normal temperature and worse when it is warmer. The runny nose is fluid arriving with the things that fight infection in it. The cough is getting the mess out. The aching and the tiredness are chemical signals that make you lie still, which is exactly what a body fighting something needs you to do.
SymptomWhose side is it on, and what is it for?
Feeling too hot
A runny nose
Coughing
Aching, and not wanting to get up

Most of It Is You — So Why Take Anything?

What keeps a body working · Page 2 of 2

Not medical advice. A fever can go too high, and what to do about it is a doctor's call.
  1. If a fever is your body helping itself, say why somebody might take medicine to bring it down anyway. Give a real reason, not just "it feels bad".
  2. Two people catch the same virus. One is much iller than the other. Using this sheet, give an explanation that is not "one of them got more virus".
  3. Somebody says "I have got rid of my cold, I only have the cough left". Say what is odd about that sentence.

The Wage That Is Not the Wage

The Second Number · Page 1 of 3

Name Date
DIRECTIONS: A first job: $15.00 an hour, 20 hours a week. Work out what actually reaches your account, one line at a time.
#LineWorkingAmount
1.Hours × $15.0020 × $15.00
2.Taken off before you see itabout 17.65% of the line above
3.What actually arrivesthe first line minus the second
4.So what is one PAID hour really worth?the line above ÷ 20
The money taken off is tax and other deductions. It is not optional and nobody asks you first.
  1. You told a friend the job pays $15.00 an hour. Using your last line, write the sentence that would have been true.

And You Are Not Paid for All of It

The Second Number · Page 2 of 3

DIRECTIONS: Getting there, coming home and waiting for a shift are unpaid time. Read, then answer.
Say that is 3 extra hours a week. You cannot use them for anything else.
  1. How many hours does this job actually take out of your week?
    Working
  2. Divide what actually arrives by that number. What is an hour of your life worth to this job?
    Working
what the job says$15.00after deductions$12.35per hour you give up$10.74the same job, three ways of counting an hour
The advert said $15.00; the second number is $10.74. Both are true, answering different questions.

Comparing Two Jobs Properly

The Second Number · Page 3 of 3

DIRECTIONS: Two offers. Which pays more per hour you give up?
#Job AJob B
What it says an hour$15.00$13.50
Hours a week2020
Traveling and waiting3 hoursnone — it is next door
Deductions17.65%17.65%
8.Per hour you actually give up
  1. Which job pays more per hour of your life? By how much?
  2. Job A "pays better" and Job B is better paid. Write the difference between those two sentences.
  3. What is the question to ask about a job that is NOT "what does it pay"? Write the one you would actually use.

A Box With a Name

Computing · Page 1 of 2

Name Date
DIRECTIONS: Work out this Python with a pencil. Fill in what score holds after each line, then what it prints.
A variable is a named box. It holds one thing; putting in something new throws the old one away.
1score = 0
2score = 7
3score = 2
4print(score)
linescore
1
2
3
4
what it prints 
Where is the 7 after line 3?

Two Boxes

Computing · Page 2 of 2

DIRECTIONS: Two boxes. Fill in what each holds after every line.
1a = 3
2b = 5
3a = b
4print(a)
5print(b)
lineab
1
2
3
4
5
what it prints 
  1. After line 3, what is in b? Did line 3 change it?
  2. Line 3 is a = b. Explain in one sentence which box got changed and which did not.
  3. The 3 that was in a at line 1 — where is it after line 3? Answer carefully.