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Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Smart Shoppers
In this activity, students will compare ratios with different denominators, and then with common denominators. They will also find unit rates.
Other
Kqed: The Lowdown: Life Expectancy: Finding Ratio Relationships
In this interactive map, learn how life expectancy, obesity, hypertension, and physical activity rates have changed dramatically throughout the United States over the last three decades.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Hippos Love Pumpkins
Students use ratios to answer four questions about rates in situations involving unusual units in this performance task.
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...
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Extra Practice Quiz Distance, Speed, & Time
Using these rate of speed problems practice figuring out either the distance, time or speed. Read the interactive quiz rules and then click on the "Begin" ticket. If you answer incorrectly you get one more chance to try again then you...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Interpreting Graphs of Proportional Relationships
Practice reading and analyzing graphs of proportional relationships. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
PBS
Pbs: Real Life Math: Physical Trainer
The general manager of a fitness center explains how numerical calculations, percentages, and ratios are critical to his job in this video from KAET. In the accompanying classroom activity, students explore percentages, fractions, and...
Student Achievement Partners
Illustrative Mathematics: Art Class [Pdf]
Students demonstrate understanding of proportional relationships when completing an assessment.