6th Grade Math Ratios & Rates PBL | Food Truck Empire 5-Day Project | 6.RP.A.1 6.RP.A.3d

🚚🍔🌮 FOOD TRUCK ENTREPRENEURS — 5-DAY PBL UNIT | GRADE 6 MATH

Turn ratios, rates, percents, and measurement conversions into a real business challenge with this complete 82-page Food Truck Entrepreneurship Project-Based Learning unit.

Over five days, Grade 6 students build a food truck business from scratch. They scale recipes, calculate unit prices, create percent-based marketing, convert measurements, and prepare a Shark Tank-style investor pitch while applying the 6.RP standards in connected, real-world contexts.

Unlike a single worksheet dressed up with a business theme, this resource is structured as a true multi-day PBL experience with student ownership, design work, mathematical decision-making, reflection, and presentation.

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❌ Not a single themed worksheet

✅ Complete 5-day Project-Based Learning experience

✅ Students BUILD a food truck business rather than simply solve isolated problems

✅ Multiple entry points and built-in differentiation

✅ Real-world applications connect ratios, rates, percents, and conversions

✅ Culminates in a Shark Tank-style Investor Pitch

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📘 **STUDENT PROJECT PACKET — 15 PAGES**

**Day 1 — Recipe Scaling & Ratios** CCSS 6.RP.A.1

**Day 2 — Pricing & Unit Rate** CCSS 6.RP.A.2

**Day 3 — Marketing with Percents** CCSS 6.RP.A.3c

**Day 4 — Operations & Measurement Conversions** CCSS 6.RP.A.3d

**Day 5 — Investor Pitch — Shark Tank Style** Synthesis of 6.RP.A.1–3d

📗 **TEACHER RESOURCES**

• 5-Day Pacing Guide with minute-by-minute schedule

• Materials & Preparation Checklist

• Differentiation Guide for EL, Gifted, and Special Needs learners

• Parent/Guardian Letter

• CCSS Standards Crosswalk

📙 **SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS**

• 12 Vocabulary Cards with definitions and visual models

• 5 standards-aligned Exit Tickets

• 3 Anchor Charts — Ratios, Unit Rate, and Conversions

• 5 Math Journal Prompts

• Quick Reference Sheets with conversion tables and strategies

📕 **ASSESSMENT**

• 4-Criterion Analytic Rubric with detailed level descriptors

• Shark Tank Investor Pitch Evaluation Form

• Student Self-Assessment Reflection

📒 **ANSWER KEY & EXEMPLARS**

• Complete Answer Key with step-by-step worked solutions

• Practice Problem Answer Keys for Days 1–4

• Sample Student Exemplars showing high-quality work

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**6.RP.A.1** — Ratio concepts and language

**6.RP.A.2** — Unit rate and unit pricing

**6.RP.A.3a** — Equivalent ratios and ratio tables

**6.RP.A.3b** — Unit rate and constant of proportionality

**6.RP.A.3c** — Percent and proportional relationships

**6.RP.A.3d** — Measurement conversion using ratio reasoning

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**Day 1:** Scale recipes and work with ratios.

**Day 2:** Determine prices and unit rates.

**Day 3:** Develop marketing using percent applications.

**Day 4:** Handle food-truck operations and measurement conversions.

**Day 5:** Synthesize the mathematics and present the food truck business to "investors."

Each day is designed for approximately 45–60 minutes.

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✅ Zero-prep structure — print and teach

✅ Five full days of connected instruction, with individual days also usable independently where appropriate

✅ Naturally differentiated with multiple entry points

✅ Built-in formative assessment through Exit Tickets and Math Journal Prompts

✅ Student ownership keeps the project centered on meaningful mathematical decisions

✅ Shark Tank-style presentation provides an authentic culminating performance task

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• 6th grade math ratios and rates

• Project-Based Learning / PBL

• End-of-unit performance assessment

• Review and test preparation

• Gifted 5th grade enrichment

• Scaffolded support for struggling 7th graders

• Homeschool math

• Self-contained substitute plans

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• 82 pages

• Grade 6 Math

• Project-Based Learning resource

• Ratios, rates, percents, and measurement conversions

• Printable student and teacher materials

• Complete answer key and exemplars included