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Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Architects in Action
Through this instructional activity, middle schoolers will learn how to use ratios to create a scale drawing of their classroom's floor plan. It provides adaptations, discussion questions, assessment rubric, and suggested readings to...
Math Slice
Math Slice: Ratios and Proportions: Math Worksheets
This tool allows you to create worksheets of word problems involving ratio and proportion.
Quia
Quia: Rates, Ratios, and Proportions
One or two players can play a learning game that reviews rates, ratios, and proportions.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Proportions: Introduction
Explains the basics and terminology of proportions.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Math: Ratios, Fractions, and Percentages
This page explores how ratios can be written as fractions. The site also discusses proportions and reducing ratios with problems and examples.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Means Proportional and Geometric Means
Dr. Math helps a student discover the meaning of the mean proportional of two numbers. Detailed explanation with examples.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center: Graphing Calculator Activity: Proportions [Pdf]
A concise graphing calculator lesson on proportions. Detailed examples, demonstrations of functions, and practice problems included. Acrobat Reader required.
Math Playground
Dirt Bike Proportions: Race by Finding Equivalent Ratios.
Proportions where students determine the missing number to make the proportion true.
University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Truffles [Pdf]
This task challenges a student to demonstrate understanding of ratios and proportions. Young scholars must determine a generalized rule from an understanding of ratio and proportional reasoning in a given real-world context.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Math Ratio
[Free Registration/Login Required] The teacher will use this lesson plan flipchart to review simple problems.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Ratios and Proportional Relationships 7.rp.1 Worksheets
Create a worksheet to assess students understanding of unit rates and unit fractions.
PBS
Pbs Mathline: How Many Noses Are in Your Arm? Lesson Plan [Pdf]
Young scholars will determine how many noses are in your arm by exploring measurement and ratio. Printable lesson plan.
Other
The Futures Channel: Proportional Reasoning
"Connecting learning to the real world" is the goal of the Futures Channel. Through the use of short videos, teachers can integrate real-world examples of how math and science are used in everyday life. Complete teaching guidelines...
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Ratios & Percentages: Solving Proportions
Students learn how to solve proportions. The mathematics resource consists of examples and practice problems with answers.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement: Distances or Dimensions Given Scale Measurements
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find actual distances or dimensions using a given scale, ratio, or proportion.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Picturing Probabilities of Number Cube Sums
Students use ideas of ratio and proportion to investigate various ways to make a circle graph. Students create graphs to display the probabilities of the different sums that can be generated with two number cubes. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement: Scale Distances or Dimensions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find scale dimensions using actual measurements and a ratio or proportion.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Similarity
This site contains a lesson plan for high school age learners. The objective is to discover the factor of proportionality in similar polygons and to relate this factor to the perimeters and areas of similar polygons.
The Math League
The Math League: Ratio and Proportion
Detailed explanations of ratio, comparing ratios, proportion, rate, converting rates, and average rate of speed, all with examples.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Ratio and Proportion Geometry Review
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a Jeopardy style review for Ratio and Proportion. Comes form the McDougal Littell Geometry book.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Learning Ratios & Proportions Through Scale Drawings
Website which strengthens the conceptual connection between scale drawings and ratios through an activity lesson.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp Two School Dance
The purpose of this task is to see how well students students understand and reason with ratios. This task was adapted from problem #14 on the 2011 American Mathematics Competition (AMC) 8 Test. Aligns with 7.RP.A.3. The site provides a...
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...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Fractions as Percents Grade 7
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Write fractions as percents by using proportions and equal ratios.