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Lunch Food? Mmmm! Mmmm! Good!

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Examine how nutrition plays an important role in our lives by conducting online research and developing lunch menus that satisfy nutritional requirements set up by the United States Department of Agriculture. Students download recipes,...
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Start with a Circle...

For Students K - 12th
The Golden Ratio. The Divine Proportion. Yup. It's math and art blended into one colorful activity. Young artists combine colored tissue paper circles and parts of circles to create geometric patterns. As a bonus, kids get to figure out...
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Art Class, Variation 2

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Given a set of six paint mix ratios, artistic mathematicians produce an equation that relates the number of parts for blue paint to parts for yellow paint resulting new shades of green. 
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Ratios

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners identify ratios to compare quantities and understand proportions. In this math lesson plan, students work in groups and use facts from the Holocaust to calculate ratios and percentages.
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Leveled Problem Solving Solving Proportions Using Cross Products

For Students 4th - 7th
In this solving proportions using cross products practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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Comparing Ratios

For Students 6th - 7th
For this comparing ratios worksheet, students solve and complete 3 different problems using the screens shown. First, they write a ratio that compares the shaded part to unshaded part illustrated. Then, students use the same grid to...
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Direct Proportion

For Students 6th - 9th
In this direct proportion instructional activity, students read through an example problem and 2 practice questions on how to use direct proportions. Then, students use direct proportions to solve 20 additional questions.
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Using Ratio to Express a Rate

For Students 9th
In this Algebra I worksheet, 9th graders use a ratio to express a rate.  The one page worksheet contains two multiple choice questions.  Solutions are provided. 
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Using Proportions Homework

For Students 9th - 10th
In this geometry worksheet, students identify simple ratio and reduce to the simplest forms. They find the measure of missing sides and angles. There are 20 questions.
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Scale Drawing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use ratio and proportions to solve problems. In this geometry lesson, students apply ratio and proportions to real life scenarios.
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Similar Figures

For Students 7th - 10th
In this similar figures worksheet, students identify the meaning of similar, corresponding sides, and congruent.  They use proportions to find the length of a missing side.  Students dilate given figures according to a scale...
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Points on a Line Segment

For Students 10th
In this geometry worksheet, 10th graders solve a problem relating to the length of a line segment.  The location of the points on the segment is given in terms of ratios.  The one page worksheet has one problem with the...
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Chapter 8 Extra Problems Worksheet: Similar Triangles

For Students 9th - 12th
In this similar triangles instructional activity, high schoolers solve 6 similar triangles. Students use proportions to solve similar triangles and similar rectangles.
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Balobbyland City Planners

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a mini city using proportions that fit a model human they construct using tin foil. They plan the city including a library, sports arena, living spaces, parks and businesses. When constructing the paper buildings, they...
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Similarity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students find the factor of proportionality in similar polygons. In this similarity of polygons lesson plan, students measure the sides and angles of polygons and derive a factor of proportionality between corresponding pairs of sides...
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Stoichiometric Relationships

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this reactions worksheet, students learn how to solve stoichiometric problems based on the mole ratios of a balanced equation. Then students complete 7 problems.
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Similar Polygons

For Students 7th - 8th
In this similar polygons activity, students identify the corresponding sides of polygons.  They use proportions to solve problems.  Students determine the scale factor of similar figures.  This two-page activity contains...
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Betting Game--Who's the Winner?

For Students 5th - 6th
In this betting game of odds learning exercise, students review and discuss what odds mean and then play a game with a racing post and a ratio fact and learning exercise.
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Indirect Measurement with Similar Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars use similar triangles to find missing heights.  In this using similar triangles to find missing heights lesson, students use proportions to find the heights of missing side lengths.  Young scholars find the...
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What Are the Odds?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers identify and interpret various ways of expressing probability as a decimal, fraction, percent, or ratio. They solve problems based on probability as they apply to real world applications.
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Photographs

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Scaling needs to be picture perfect. Pupils use proportional reasoning to find the missing dimension of a photo. Class members determine the sizes of paper needed for two configurations of pictures in the short assessment task.
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Noyce Foundation

Lawn Mowing

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
This is how long we mow the lawn together. The assessment requires the class to work with combining ratios and proportional reasoning. Pupils determine the unit rate of mowers and calculate the time required to mow a lawn if they work...
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Dividing Segments Proportionately

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Fractions, ratios, and proportions: what do they have to do with segments? Scholars discover the midpoint formula through coordinate geometry. Next, they expand on the formula to apply it to dividing the segment into different...
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Greenhouse Management

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Who knew running a greenhouse required so much math? Amaze future mathematicians and farmers with the amount of unit conversions, ratio and proportional reasoning, and geometric applications involved by having them complete the...

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