Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Number: Ratios
Test your knowledge of ratios by determining the equivalents and how to interpret the given ratio.
University of South Florida
Fcat: Using Proportions and Go Fish!
Students "go fishing" and use proportions to learn how estimating is used to determine the size of a population.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Golden Ratio
Math World explains the Golden Ratio, gives the formula for finding the irrational number, and expresses this value as an infinite series. Also defines and represents the Ratio geometrically, its relationship to the Fibonacci numbers,...
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Ratios
This short exercise gives the student a ratio in reduced terms, and then gives the students a replacement value for one part of the ratio. The student is then to input the other part of the replacement ratio so as to keep the two ratios...
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Math Lesson Working With Ratios
Did you know that chefs must know how to use ratios in order to prepare meals? Learn the value of understanding how to write ratios, ratio proportionality, and ratios in lowest terms in this interactive lesson. Based on real world...
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...
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Ratio Calculator
The ratio calculator performs three types of operations and shows the steps to solve. It simplifies ratios or creates an equivalent ratio when one side of the ratio is empty, solves ratios for the one missing value when comparing ratios...
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Proportionality
Acquire a deeper understanding of the concept of proportionality. Concise definitions, detailed examples, and an interactive worksheet to apply what you have learned.
Math.com
Math.com: Similar Figures
This example provides a clear explanation of how to compare figures to see if they are similar and the formula to determine if the ratios are equal. Interactive practice activities are provided.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: The Fastest Cyclist
As a coach for a long distance cyclist, can you come up with a race plan to help him win his ride from Lands End to John o' Groats? This activity is a more challenging follow-on from Nutrition and Cycling and is aimed at secondary...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Math Ratio
[Free Registration/Login Required] The teacher will use this lesson plan flipchart to review simple problems.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Chapter Test Ratio, Proportion, and Percent
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking chapter test to assess your knowledge on ratios, proportions, and percents. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. After completing the test students can click the "Check It" button and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Identify Proportional Relationships
Practice telling whether or not the relationship between two quantities is proportional by analyzing word problems. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Rice University
Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: All About Ratios
Make Texas chili as you learn about ratios in this interactive lesson. Students get immediate feedback on their responses and teachers have access to online assessment.
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...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Cake Recipe Ratio
Dr. Math has to go into the kitchen to solve this real-world problem. A student is looking for a solution to a ratio problem about baking a cake. You'll need to stir up your knowledge of ratios, fractions, decimals, proportions, and...
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...
PBS
Pbs: Real World Proportional Relationships: Gender Wage Gap
Using this infographic, learn how wage equity today compares with data from 50 years ago, at the dawn of the equal pay movement. The accompanying classroom activity invites students to explore the change in the gender wage gap from 1965...
Rice University
Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Golden Ratio
This site introduces students to the definition of golden ratio. It gives them a chance to estimate ratios and predict which figures are closest to the golden ratio. There is a link on this page that provides charts for students to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Thirsty for Ratios
In this lesson, the students will learn what a ratio is and how it can be used in a comparison. In this lesson, students will also determine how to combine a sports drink in powder form and water to make enough for a whole football team....
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Dance Performance: Position on a Map
This interactive website allows students to practice their map skills including scale factors on a map.
Math Planet
Math Planet: Algebra 1: Calculating With Percents
Provides examples and a video lesson that illustrates how to solve percent problems.
Wyzant
Wyzant: Proportions Basics Worksheet
An interactive quiz from WyzAnt of 20 proportions are presented for the students to solve and then check their answers. All can be computed with simple cross-multiplying.
PBS
Pbs: Jazz and Math: The Beat Goes On
This lesson will require students to collect data through listening, counting and timing. They will use ratios, rates, and proportions to report data. They will also demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of rhythm and tempo in music.