Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Proportional Relationships
Practice telling whether or not the relationship between two quantities is proportional by reasoning about equivalent ratios. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or...
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Ratio and Proportion
A collection of teacher resources to aid in teaching and reviewing ratio and proportion in math. There are worksheets, PowerPoint presentations, activities, and smartboard activities available for the teacher to download.
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...
Math.com
Math.com: Proportions
This lesson explains proportions along with the formula to determine if the ratios are equal. An interactive practice activity is included.
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...
Other
Nearpod: Rates & Ratios
In this activity on ratios, 7th graders explore how ratios can be used to demonstrate rates by exploring proportional relationships.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ratio Word Problems
Practice solving ratio word problems like, "If Ben reads 10 pages in 15 minutes, how long does it take him to read 40 pages?" Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or...
Other
Helping With math.com: Ratios and Unit Rates
This site contains a lesson about ratios and unit rates as well as guided and independent practice for learners to review the skills.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Math: Algebra: Ratio
Explore word problems about ratios and watch and listen to all the steps needed to solve.
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...
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ratio Tables
Practice filling out tables of equivalent ratios. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Math Planet
Math Planet: Proportions and Percent
Gain an understanding of percent proportions by taking a look at examples and a video lesson.
Math Drills
Math Drills: Fractions Worksheets
Download and print these worksheets to sharpen your skills working with fractions. Worksheets focus on modeling fractions, ratios and proportions, comparing, ordering, simplifying, converting, and order of operations.
Quia
Ixl Learning: Proportions
Brush up on your math skills relating to proportions then try some practice problems to test your understanding.
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...
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Exploring Changing Obesity Rates Through Ratios and Graphs
In these KQED Lowdown infographics, explore how adult obesity rates in the United States, as measured by body mass index (BMI), have dramatically changed in the past half-century. A circular graph and a pictograph depict data by decade,...
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...
Math Playground
Math Playground: Problem Solving Videos
"Rated 'M' for middle school," Math TV invites you to tune in each week for videos of word problems being solved. Back episodes are available in subjects such as percentages, number sense, and fractions. Watch a problem worked out, then...
Other
All Elementary Mathematics: Proportionality and Ratio
A brief explanation of the mathematical relationship between ratio, proportion, and proportionality. Examples are included.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Proportions
This WebMath site provides a general description of proportions. Content also includes a 'problem solver' which lists step-by-step instructions on how to obtain the correct answer.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Number: Working With Ratios
Deterime the ratios of amounts to one another and then simplify.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Solving a Ratio With & Without a Diagram
A student is searching for a solution to a ratio question without using a diagram. Dr. Math helps to break it down both with and without a diagram. An understanding of fractions, multiplication, and basic algebra is necessary to get this...