Two tables, two rates, and one question: which climbs faster? These free printable worksheets read a rate straight off a table of values by dividing y by the x above it.
If they get stuck
The answer key prints on a separate page.
A table hands its rate over to anyone who divides. Take any y and the x sitting above it, divide, and that is how much y moves for every one x — do it on both tables and the larger number is the faster relationship. The trap is reading the biggest y on the page instead: a table that reaches 60 can still be the slower of the two.
Because the two tables can start from different x values, the safe move is a division rather than a glance down the column. A column that steps by one lets a child read the rate by subtraction and never notice the step; a column that steps by three does not, and a child who skips the division reads the wrong number off it.
One question from a sheet like this one, worked a step at a time — with a sentence saying what just happened and why.
Comparing rates from a table, step by step