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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Architects in Action

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...
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Math Slice

Math Slice: Ratios and Proportions: Math Worksheets

For Students 3rd - 5th
This tool allows you to create worksheets of word problems involving ratio and proportion.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Rates, Ratios, and Proportions

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
One or two players can play a learning game that reviews rates, ratios, and proportions.
Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Proportions: Introduction

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Explains the basics and terminology of proportions.
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Math: Ratios, Fractions, and Percentages

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This page explores how ratios can be written as fractions. The site also discusses proportions and reducing ratios with problems and examples.
Website
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Means Proportional and Geometric Means

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Dr. Math helps a student discover the meaning of the mean proportional of two numbers. Detailed explanation with examples.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center: Graphing Calculator Activity: Proportions [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A concise graphing calculator lesson on proportions. Detailed examples, demonstrations of functions, and practice problems included. Acrobat Reader required.
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.
Lesson Plan
University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Truffles [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
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.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Math Ratio

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The teacher will use this lesson plan flipchart to review simple problems.
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Common Core Sheets

Common Core Sheets: Ratios and Proportional Relationships 7.rp.1 Worksheets

For Teachers 7th Standards
Create a worksheet to assess students understanding of unit rates and unit fractions.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Mathline: How Many Noses Are in Your Arm? Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars will determine how many noses are in your arm by exploring measurement and ratio. Printable lesson plan.
Website
Other

The Futures Channel: Proportional Reasoning

For Students 9th - 10th
"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...
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.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Measurement: Distances or Dimensions Given Scale Measurements

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find actual distances or dimensions using a given scale, ratio, or proportion.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Picturing Probabilities of Number Cube Sums

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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.]
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Measurement: Scale Distances or Dimensions

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find scale dimensions using actual measurements and a ratio or proportion.
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Similarity

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Ratio and Proportion Geometry Review

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a Jeopardy style review for Ratio and Proportion. Comes form the McDougal Littell Geometry book.
Lesson Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp Two School Dance

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Triathlon and Fitness

For Students 5th - 8th
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...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Arithmetic: Fractions as Percents Grade 7

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Write fractions as percents by using proportions and equal ratios.

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