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.
Kid stuck on one? You don’t just get the sheet.
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 this sheet, worked through a step at a time.
A x: 4, 6, 8 y: 60, 90, 120 B y = 13x, y dollars and x weeks