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.
OER Commons
Oer Commons: Multiplication Properties of Equality
Seventh graders use the multiplication property of equality to justify their solution to a ratio problem.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Identification and Writing of Equivalent Rates Grade 6
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert ratios to rates and then compare the rates.
PBS
Pbs: Scale City: One Dimensional Scaling in the Real World
In this video, life-size replicas help demonstrate one-dimensional scaling and the ratio relationship between two real-world quantities. The accompanying classroom activity helps students understand how ratios and proportions can help...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Something Fishy [Pdf]
Estimate the size of a large population (fish in a bay) by applying the concepts of ratio and proportion through the capture-recapture statistical procedure.
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Indirect Measurement
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students find unknown measurements indirectly using the ratios and proportions of similar figures. Students examine guided notes, review guided...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Equivalent Ratios: Lesson 5
This lesson will introduce the means and extremes of a proportion, and demonstrate how to use cross multiplication to determine if two ratios are equivalent. It is 5 of 8 in the series titled "Equivalent Ratios."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Equivalent Ratios: Lesson 8
This lesson will introduce the means and extremes of a proportion, and demonstrate how to use cross multiplication to determine if two ratios are equivalent. It is 8 of 8 in the series titled "Equivalent Ratios."
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Ratios & Percentages: Solving Proportions
Students learn how to solve proportions. The mathematics resource consists of examples and practice problems with answers.
Free Math Help
Free Math Help: Proportions and Ratios
The tutorial investigates proportions and ratios. The lesson includes explanations on solving problems with ratios using cross multiplication.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today Wing Tabs Save Fuel
Using the USA TODAY Infograph, 'Wing tabs save fuel', ratios and proportions will be used to explore the concept of similarity between a drawing/model and the actual dimensions. The effects of dilation (size change) on an image and...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Math Space Odyssey: How Much Do You Weigh in Outer Space?
Demonstrate the ability to apply the use of decimals, fractions, ratios and proportions to situations based upon given information about planets in the solar system.
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.
Math.com
Math.com: Similar Figures
This example provides a clear explanation of how to compare figures to see if they are similar and the formula to determine if the ratios are equal. Interactive practice activities are provided.
Other
All Elementary Mathematics: Proportionality and Ratio
A brief explanation of the mathematical relationship between ratio, proportion, and proportionality. Examples are included.
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.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp,ee Gotham City Taxis
The purpose of this task is to give students an opportunity to solve a multi-step ratio problem that can be approached in many ways. The site includes a task and the solution.
Other
P.u.e.m.a.c.: Que Es La Razon Aurea?
Find out how to calculate the Golden Ratio in this exercise.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee,rp 7.ee,rp Anna in d.c.
The purpose of this task is to give students an opportunity to solve a multi-step percentage problem that can be approached in many ways. Because the tax and tip in this problem are a fixed percentage of the cost of the meal, the total...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ee Sore Throats, Variation 2
For this task where two saltwater solutions are compared, 8th graders must find equivalent ratios, write an equation that works for both solutions, draw the equation's graph, and interpret the slope as a unit rate. Aligns with 8.EE.B.5.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp Tax and Tip
This site provides a problem with completed solutions for that problem. This problem covers the topic of sales tax and tips. The problem aligns with 7.RP.A.3.
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