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Horatio's Ratios

For Teachers 6th - 8th
View a PBS video entitled Horatio's Drive and explore Horatio's Ratios. Collaborative learners form groups to use Mapquest to determine distances covered. They generate the mathematical averages, ratios, and rates in order to calculate...
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Converting Fractions and Decimals

For Students 5th - 10th
For this conversions worksheet, students convert fractions, decimals, percents, and ratios. Students complete 10 problems in the chart.
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Converting Fractions and Decimals

For Students 5th - 10th
In this conversions worksheet, students convert fractions, decimals, percents, and ratios. Students complete 10 problems in a chart.
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Converting Fractions and Decimals

For Students 4th - 8th
In this conversions worksheet, students convert fractions, decimals, percents, and ratios. Students complete 10 problems in the chart.  
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Converting Fractions and Decimals

For Students 5th - 10th
In this conversions activity, students convert fractions, decimals, percents, and ratios. Students complete 10 problems in the chart.
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Colorful Fractions

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students use charts to show fractions.  For this fractions and percents lesson, students review fractions, percents and ratios.  Students create tables and color the cells to make different fractions.  Students answer...
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The Lowdown — Examining California's Prison System: Real-World Ratio

For Teachers 6th Standards
Free yourself from the shackles of traditional math lessons. Young mathematicians investigate race, gender, and age differences in California's prison system. They use provided graphics to compare the prison population with the state's...
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The Lowdown — Exploring Changing Obesity Rates through Ratios and Graphs

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Math and medicine go hand-in-hand. After viewing several infographics on historical adult obesity rates, pupils consider how they have changed over time. They then use percentages to create a new graph and write a list of questions the...
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Ratios Online

For Students 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers complete ratio and percentage problems in word problem form. They complete 10 multiple choice problems.
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Ratio, Rates and Percentages

For Students 8th
In this ratio, rates and percentages worksheet, 8th graders solve 22 various types of problems related to ratios, rates and percentages. They first write ratios in lowest terms and describe each of comparison stated. Students also solve...
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Working with Percentages and Proportions

For Students 6th - 8th
In this percentages and proportions worksheet, students are given percentages, they express them as a proportions, they create an equivalent ratio using "x" for the unknown portion and they cross multiply and divide to find their answer.
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Math and Your Local Restaurant

For Teachers All
Connect ratios, fractions, scale factor, percents, and elapsed time to restaurants.
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It's Probably Probable

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Learners make predictions and draw conclusions from given information as they learn the meaning of probability in this vocabulary-rich, integrated activity that presents a variety of teaching strategies to motivate and reach...
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Multistep Ratio and Percent Word Problems - Independent Practice Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Math in real life IS a thing and your learners can see how when they practice ratio word problems. Use the handy ratio to convert between measurements and figure out the answer when given a change of information. Resource also comes with...
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Finding a 10% increase

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A quick problem to test your mathematicians' knowledge on percent increase. Two different solutions are provided, mental math and computing. Ask your learners to include a description of what they did to supplement their answer.
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Ratios, Proportions, and Percents

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders use ratios and proportions to solve real-life problems.  In this using ratios and proportions to solve real-life problems lesson plan, 8th graders estimate the cost of a road trip.  Students estimate the distance...
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Percent Error and Percent Increase - Independent Practice Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Give your learners a small taste of the business world by calculating percent error and percent increase. The resource provides several practice problems to give your mathematicians practice setting up the ratio to convert to percents....
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A Fraction as a Percent

For Teachers 6th Standards
It is all about being equivalent. Class members convert between fractions, decimals, and percents. By using visual models, scholars verify their conversions in the 25th portion of a 29-part series.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Dana's House

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Your class is to find the percent of the lot that is not covered by a house. Make sure your pupils understand the problems before they begin. The lot is the whole of the percent problem and the house is the part. The exercise is good...
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Multistep Ratio and Percent Word Problems - Step-by-Step Lesson

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
What happens when you have a recipe and need to up the measurements? Here is a lesson that explains how to use ratios to convert measurements and percents with worked out problems. Also provided are additional resources and practice...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Overlapping Squares

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
The objective of this activity is to find the percent of the area of a two squares overlapping. Mathematicians find the ratio of area for the part that overlaps to the rectangle formed. The final answer is a percent as a rate per 100....
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Ratios and Proportional Relationships

For Teachers 7th Standards
Time to see what they've learned. Seventh graders solve a set of seven short problems in the ratios and proportional relationships domain. Applications include photo negatives, washing machines, coffee powder, sleep, stamps, etc.
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Ratios and Proportions

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students solve problems involving percents and ratios. In this algebra lesson, students convert decimals to percents and percents to decimals. They solve problems involving algebraic expressions and four different kinds of percent problems.
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Race and Gender in the Media

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students analyze race and gender in the media. In this algebra instructional activity, students apply their knowledge of percents and ratios to determine the representation of race and gender in the media. They discuss and graph their data.

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