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OER Commons

Oer Commons: Calculating the Unit Rate of a Ratio Situation

For Teachers 7th Standards
Seventh graders find the unit rate of a ratio situation.
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Other

Story md.com: Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Ldl/hdl Ratio

For Students 9th - 10th
Under certain conditions, the risk of developing coronary heart disease (strokes, heart attack) cannot be properly assessed only by looking at a person's lipids test results. In these cases, the LDL "bad cholesterol" to HDL "good...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Ratios With Thinking Blocks

For Teachers 6th
How can you use a bar model to represent ratio problems? Students work with problem sets on the Thinking Blocks website.
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Other

Helping With math.com: Ratios and Unit Rates

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This site contains a lesson about ratios and unit rates as well as guided and independent practice for students to review the skills.
Handout
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Nature, the Golden Ratio, and Fibonacci, Too

For Students 9th - 10th
Looks at how spirals form in nature when cells reproduce in a flower, for example. An interactive lets students try entering different values to see if they can make a spiral pattern with no gaps. The correct figure would be the Golden...
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University of Waterloo (Canada)

Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing: Ratio and Rate [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learners explore the concepts of rate and ratio in a variety of problem-solving situations. Worksheets contain definitions and visual representations of concepts. Link to related ratio game. Other skills include measurement, data...
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Ratios

For Students 9th - 10th
The learning activity consists of word problems that investigate ratios. Detailed explanations are included.
Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Ratios and Proportions Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide reviews ratios, proportions, and cross-multiplication.
Handout
Math Planet

Math Planet: Pre Algebra: Ratios and Percent: Rates and Ratios

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what rates and ratios are and how they are different. Shows how to solve an example problem about ratios and presents a video demonstrating how to show a ratio as a fraction or a decimal. [1:52]
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The Math League

The Math League: Ratio

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
This site gives a definition of a ratio along with two word problems. Also shows the student how to compare ratios using fractions.
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Math: Ratios

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Investigate how ratios can be used to compare objects of the same type on this site. The site includes some explanation and examples.
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The Math League

The Math League: Ratio and Proportion

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This tutorial provides definitions and examples of ratios and proportions and features comparing ratios and converting rates.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Reciprocal Trig Ratios

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand the right triangle definition of sec, csc, and cot ratios.
Activity
The Math League

The Math League: Ratio and Proportion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Detailed explanations of ratio, comparing ratios, proportion, rate, converting rates, and average rate of speed, all with examples.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Learning Ratios & Proportions Through Scale Drawings

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Website which strengthens the conceptual connection between scale drawings and ratios through an activity lesson.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Jim and Jesse's Money

For Teachers 6th
In this real-world context, 6th graders are given the ratio of Jim's money to Jesse's and the amounts they have spent so far on a road trip, and they must calculate what each person had at the start of the trip. Aligns with 6.RP.A.3.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Power to the 10! Conversions With the Metric System

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders will be using ratio tables to convert units of metric measurements and looking for patterns to help make the problems easier.
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: P H Scale

For Students 9th - 10th
In this advanced simulation, students experiment with changing the ion ratios in solutions and thus the pH. The experiment can be viewed on a macroscopic or microscopic level, or customized.
Interactive
Math Playground

Dirt Bike Proportions: Race by Finding Equivalent Ratios.

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Proportions where students determine the missing number to make the proportion true.
Activity
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Unit Rates

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An interactive simulation that teaches about ratios, proportional reasoning, and using double number lines to look for patterns through interactions while shopping for fruits, vegetables, and candy and by comparing cars with different...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Chapter Test Using Proportional Reasoning

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
The mathematics resource consists of an assessment with hints and solutions. Students answer questions that review proportional reasoning.
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 17.4 Inverse Trigonometric Ratios

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Define the trigonometric ratios in terms of ratios of the sides of a right triangle.
Activity
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Ratios & Percentages: Solving Proportions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn how to solve proportions. The mathematics resource consists of examples and practice problems with answers.
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Grid Self Portrait

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson plan explores how Chuck Close uses photography and a mathematical grid to create his large portraits. Hands-on activities encourage students to create using the grid, during which they will learn about variation, repetition,...

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