Proportions | Baking Beet Cookies? | PBSMathClub

Beet Cookies? Beet Cookies! Madison, Grace, and Hannah use ratios and proportions to bake a deliciously strange treat. We explain how to set up equivalent ratios to solve for a missing amount. We also ask the biggest question of all: do beet cookies taste any good?

For Teachers
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.RP.A.2
Understand the concept of a unit rate a/b associated with a ratio a:b with b ≠ 0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship. For example, "This recipe has a ratio of 3 cups of flour to 4 cups of sugar, so there is 3/4 cup of flour for each cup of sugar." "We paid $75 for 15 hamburgers, which is a rate of $5 per hamburger."1

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.RP.A.3.D
Use ratio reasoning to convert measurement units; manipulate and transform units appropriately when multiplying or dividing quantities.