Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Arithmetic: Proportions Using Cross Products

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students use cross products to solve proportions and find the value of the missing variable. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice,...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Arithmetic: Proportions Using Cross Products

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students write proportions and then solve proportions by using cross-products. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch...
Activity
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Web Math: Proportions

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
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.
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Similarity

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This learning tutorial describes the characteristics of similar figures and how to use scale factor and proportions to determine missing side lengths. The lesson includes PowerPoint presentations and videos demonstrating how to solve...
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Equal Proportions: Dirt Bike Proportions

For Students 4th - 6th
Start your engines! This racing game will speed up your math skills by challenging players to find equivalent fractions. The faster you solve the problems the faster the bike goes.
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Other

Augusta Technical College: Solving Percent Problems [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Study sheet explains how to solve three different percent problems including finding the part, the percent, and the whole.
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Solving a Ratio With & Without a Diagram

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Determining Sample Size for a Given Margin of Error

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains questions about statistics involving how to choose a sample size to fit a desired maximum error bound. The student learns to do this on confidence intervals for proportions as well as confidence intervals for means.
eBook
Math Planet

Math Planet: Algebra 1: Calculating With Percents

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides examples and a video lesson that illustrates how to solve percent problems.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Lifting a Lion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students learn to solve a real-world problem. Using a toy lion and a lever, students discover how much work is needed to raise the toy lion. They use proportions to determine the force needed to lift a real lion.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Unknown Measures of Similar Figures

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use proportions to find unknown measures in similar figures and then apply these measures to indirect measurement.
Activity
Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: All About Ratios

For Students 1st - 5th
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.
Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Proportionality Relationships Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide looks at proportionality theorems for triangles and parallel lines intersected by transversals.
Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Linear Equations Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This comprehensive study guide highlights the main terms and formulas needed to understand linear equations. Examples are included.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Introduction to Ratios

For Teachers 6th Standards
What is a ratio? How can we create equivalent ratios? Students work to express and extend relationships using ratios.
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Math Drills

Math Drills: Fractions Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
Handout
Quia

Ixl Learning: Percents

For Students 6th - 7th
Brush up on your math skills relating to percents then try some practice problems to test your understanding.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Proportional Scaling

For Students 6th - 8th
Examine some of the complexities and complications inherent in the development of a micro engine. This video focuses on how MIT researchers have to consider proportions comparing volume and surface area when factoring heat loss, taking...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Recognize and Represent Proportional Relationships Between Quantities: Ratio, Proportion, Cross Multiply, Divide

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this Cyberchase media gallery, learn about ratio and proportion and how to use an algebraic shortcut to solve proportion problems. In the accompanying classroom activity, students play a game called the "Pom-Pom Nose Push," in which...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: The Math of Trash: Percents and Proportions

For Students 6th - 8th
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...
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PBS

Pbs: Human Tree: Ratios

For Students 6th - 8th
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...
Lesson Plan
Other

Nearpod: Percent of Change

For Teachers 7th
In this instructional activity, 7th graders will learn how to solve percent of change problems.
Lesson Plan
Other

Nearpod: Similar Figures & Proportionality

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson on similar figures and proportionality, young scholars explore how to identify if figures are similar by applying their knowledge of corresponding angles and sides.
Activity
Amby Duncan-Carr

Amby: Proporion Method to Solve Percent Problems

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Examples are solved to demonstrate using proportions to solve percent problems. Exercises are provided that allow you to check your answers.