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PBS
Pbs: Solve the Ratio and Proportion Problem Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt
In this video, Harry finds money on the sidewalk. He uses ratio, proportion, and some knowledge about shadows to return it to the rightful owner. In the accompanying classroom activity, students investigate whether there is a consistent...
Quia
Ixl Learning: Proportions
Brush up on your math skills relating to proportions then try some practice problems to test your understanding.
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Percent and Fractions: Ratio and Proportion
Activities and factsheets exploring ratios and proportions in everyday life. Interactive, colorful, and fun.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Proportional Relationships
Practice telling whether or not the relationship between two quantities is proportional by reasoning about equivalent ratios. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or...
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Ratio and Proportion
A collection of teacher resources to aid in teaching and reviewing ratio and proportion in math. There are worksheets, PowerPoint presentations, activities, and smartboard activities available for the teacher to download.
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Percents Combined: Proportional Relationships With Multistep Ratio and Percent Problems
Learn how to calculate sale price when combining two "percent-off" discounts in this video from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students develop and share a variety of strategies, including modeling with a 10 x 10 grid to...
PBS
Pbs: Human Tree: Ratios
Watch as the National Museum of Mathematics creates an interesting series of images using ratios. This video focuses on the proportional relationship observed in fractals and challenges you to do some critical thinking using ratios and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ratio Word Problems
Practice solving ratio word problems like, "If Ben reads 10 pages in 15 minutes, how long does it take him to read 40 pages?" Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or...
Other
Helping With math.com: Ratios and Unit Rates
This site contains a lesson about ratios and unit rates as well as guided and independent practice for students to review the skills.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Math: Algebra: Ratio
Explore word problems about ratios and watch and listen to all the steps needed to solve.
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: The Math of Trash: Percents and Proportions
Discover how percents and proportions help explain issues like climate change, composting, and zero waste in this video from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students estimate the percentage of various types of trash that...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Triathlon and Fitness
The triathlon is a physically gruelling challenge. Can you work out which athlete burnt the most calories? This activity provides a real-life context for working with proportionality, speed, rates, and units of measurement and is aimed...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ratio Tables
Practice filling out tables of equivalent ratios. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Exploring Changing Obesity Rates Through Ratios and Graphs
In these KQED Lowdown infographics, explore how adult obesity rates in the United States, as measured by body mass index (BMI), have dramatically changed in the past half-century. A circular graph and a pictograph depict data by decade,...
Math Playground
Math Playground: Problem Solving Videos
"Rated 'M' for middle school," Math TV invites you to tune in each week for videos of word problems being solved. Back episodes are available in subjects such as percentages, number sense, and fractions. Watch a problem worked out, then...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Proportions
This WebMath site provides a general description of proportions. Content also includes a 'problem solver' which lists step-by-step instructions on how to obtain the correct answer.
PBS
Pbs Mathline: Bead Dazzling (Proportional Reasoning) [Pdf]
A comprehensive lesson on algebraic thinking where students create and identify patterns using proportional reasoning. Research based, this lesson includes technology connections, items for discussion, and extension activities.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Number: Ratios
Test your knowledge of ratios by determining the equivalents and how to interpret the given ratio.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Math Space Odyssey: How Much Do You Weigh in Outer Space?
Demonstrate the ability to apply the use of decimals, fractions, ratios and proportions to situations based upon given information about planets in the solar system.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Ratio and Proportional Reasoning: Food Labels
Learn how to use fractions to interpret food labels and make healthy eating choices.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Performance Stations in Math: Grade 6
The Saskatoon Board of Education provides teachers with this collection of grade six math performance stations. Although several of the stations have been designed as assessment tools for the Saskatchewan curriculum, teachers may also...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Performance Stations in Math: Grade 7
The Saskatoon Board of Education provides teachers with this collection of grade seven math performance stations. Although several of the stations have been designed as assessment tools for the Saskatchewan curriculum, teachers may also...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Performance Stations in Math: Grade 8
The Saskatoon Board of Education provides teachers with this collection of grade eight math performance stations. Although several of the stations have been designed as assessment tools for the Saskatchewan curriculum, teachers may also...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Performance Stations in Math: Grade 9
The Saskatoon Board of Education provides teachers with this collection of grade nine math performance stations. Although several of the stations have been designed as assessment tools for the Saskatchewan curriculum, teachers may also...