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Launch Into Math – Exercise 1: Ratios, Rates, and Units

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An illustration of the Orion spacecraft. Throughout this decade, NASA will explore more of the Moon than ever before and establish a sustainable human presence under Artemis in preparation for future human missions to Mars.

Audience

Educators

Grade Levels

Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12

Subject

Human Space Exploration, Mathematics, Present and Future

Type

Lesson Plans / Activities

This standards-aligned exercise helps students learn about the time it takes to get to the Moon at various speeds.

With this exercise, students will:

  • Practice writing rates in a/b form and using rate language in the context of a ratio relationship.
  • Convert rates using different units of time.
  • Use ratio/rate reasoning to calculate the time it would take to get to the Moon at various speeds.

Common Core: 6.RP.A.2, 6.RP.A.3

Launch Into Math – Exercise 1: Ratios, Rates and Units

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