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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Dragon Scales
In this lesson plan, students create a class mural by using scale, ratio, and proportion. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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Pbs: Scale City: Scaling Up Rectangles in the Real World
In this video, students explore Depression-era post office murals and modern outdoor murals to learn how artists use proportional reasoning and measurement to create large-scale paintings. The video ends with the question, "How do...
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Pbs Learning Media: Scale City: Similar Figures and Unknown Heights in Practice
In this interactive, students explore how to use shadows, proportional reasoning, and similar figures to determine the unknown height of an object. The interactive allows students to explore the proportional relationships among the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Kid Vid: Scaling Up Rectangles
Watch a student think through a problem about how the area of a rectangle changes when both sides are increased by the same scale factor and use online tools to demonstrate understanding of concepts related to area and scale factors in...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Dance Performance: Position on a Map
This interactive website allows students to practice their map skills including scale factors on a map.
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Pbs: Scale City: Scaling Up Recipes and Circles in the Real World
In this video, students visit a small-town festival that features the world's largest stainless steel skillet. In addition to a question about scaling recipes, they also are asked how increasing or decreasing the radius of a circle...
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Pbs Learning Media: Think Math
Think Math offers a collection of 43 KET-produced resources from Math at the Core: Middle School, including 17 Scale City videos and interactives about proportional reasoning, 14 Wild Fractions animations and games that feature visual...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement: Scale Distances or Dimensions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recognize unit scale as a ratio between units of measure of scale dimension to actual dimension.
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Pbs: Scale City: Proportions and Music in the Real World
In this video-through footage of the calliope aboard the Belle of Louisville, a church pipe organ, and various instruments at a recording studio-students are introduced to the mathematical concept that the length of a musical pipe or a...
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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...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Ratios and Proportional Relationships
A guide to support parents as they work with their students in ratios and proportional relationships.
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Pbs: Scale City: Scale Models in the Real World
This video explores scale models, including 1:12 dollhouse models, 1:24 railroad models, and 1:192 architectural models. It explains what the different ratios represent and asks students to consider how they can use measurement and...
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Pbs: Scale City: Similar Figures in the Real World
This video features the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory, home to the world's largest bat. Students see the role that measurement and engineering play in making bats to professional players' specifications and are asked to consider...
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Pbs Learning Media: Aiming for the Basketball Hall of Fame
In this video segment from TV 411, two Atlanta Hawks players plan a driving route to reach the Basketball Hall of Fame. They use map scales to estimate their travel distances.
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Pbs: Scale City: Inverse Proportions and Shadows in the Real World
In this video, students take a quick trip through the history of drive-in theaters and are then asked to consider the question, "What is the relationship between the size of an object's shadow and the object's distance from a light...
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Nm Learning Games Lab: Math Snacks
Games and videos, each accompanied by guidelines for teachers and students, cover math topics such as proportion, ratio, number line, scale, and measurement. Downloads are available for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
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I Coach Math: Scale Factor
Explains what a scale factor is and scenarios where it is used. Presents an example problem and its solution, and includes a video. [9:36]
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Pbs News Hour Extra: Lesson Plan: Planets in Proportion
Students learn about the distance and relative size of the rest of the planets compared to the Earth and Sun. The lesson plan includes an assessment and extension activities.
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Pbs: Scale City: Proportional Relationships in the Real World
In this video, students visit the Kentucky Horse Park where they are introduced to the question How are speed, time, and distance interrelated? The accompanying activity builds on a demonstration from the video of the length of Man o'...
University of Arizona
Pulse: Industrialization, Chemicals and Human Health
While students gain an understand of basic environmental toxicology, they explore the health impacts of industrialization on society in these lessons. This is a cross curricular unit that addresses standards for eleventh grade in math,...
University of Arizona
Pulse: Powerful Explorations of Health and Energy
A cross curricular unit where students simulate an energy task meeting to discuss protecting human health through energy policies. The unit covers content for twelfth grade in math, physics, language arts, and government. Topics reviewed...
University of Arizona
Pulse: From Global to City Air: Air Quality, City Design and Disease
Students are challenged to design a healthy city in this unit plan. The cross-curricular unit covers content standards for ninth grade in science, language arts, world geography, and math. Students explore air quality and the impact it...
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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...
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Fractions Number Line Chart
Fractions Proportion Scale from 0 to 1 in increments of 16ths, 15ths, 14ths, 13ths, 12ths, 11ths, 10ths, 9ths, 8ths, 7ths, 6ths, 5ths, 4ths, thirds and halves