Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Discount, Tax, and Tip Word Problems

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Practice solving word problems involving price discounts, taxes, and tip calculations. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Activity
Other

All Elementary Mathematics: Proportionality and Ratio

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief explanation of the mathematical relationship between ratio, proportion, and proportionality. Examples are included.
Activity
Wyzant

Wyzant: Proportion Basics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
WyzAnt provides an explanation and examples on solving proportions. Proportions practice problems and a proportion calculator are included in this lesson.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Proportions

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson contains notes and examples for instructing how to solve proportions. Begins with relations to equivalent fractions, and then gets into solving algebraically using cross products. It...
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Cake Recipe Ratio

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Dr. Math has to go into the kitchen to solve this real-world problem. A student is looking for a solution to a ratio problem about baking a cake. You'll need to stir up your knowledge of ratios, fractions, decimals, proportions, and...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: What's My Ratio?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students use linear measurement and calculators to investigate proportionality and determine the constant ratio between similar figures.
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AAA Math

Aaa Math: Ratios

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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...
Interactive
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Number: Use Proportions

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge using proportions.
Interactive
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Number: Recognize Proportions

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Test your knowledge of proportions and how they relate to parts of a whole.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Scale and Indirect Measurement Applications: Scale Model

For Students 5th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students explore scale and indirect measurement by navigating through the interactive learning module and then answering questions that go along with the module. Students can also learn more about the...
Lesson Plan
University of South Florida

Fcat: The Shadow Knows (Ratio, Proportion & Measurement)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars use their height and the length of the shadow to determine the height of buildings. A great outdoor activity to learn about proportions and ratios.
Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Proportions: Introduction

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Explains the basics and terminology of proportions.
Website
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Means Proportional and Geometric Means

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Dr. Math helps a student discover the meaning of the mean proportional of two numbers. Detailed explanation with examples.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center: Graphing Calculator Activity: Proportions [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A concise graphing calculator lesson on proportions. Detailed examples, demonstrations of functions, and practice problems included. Acrobat Reader required.
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Math: Ratios, Fractions, and Percentages

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This page explores how ratios can be written as fractions. The site also discusses proportions and reducing ratios with problems and examples.
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Middle School Math 7 for Ccss

For Students 7th
A complete CCSS Grade 7 Mathematics course that includes interactives in every lesson, plus videos, hands-on activities, and questions with immediate feedback. Every lesson also has specifically chosen 'Related Modalities' that teach the...
Unit Plan
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Number: Percent Increase and Decrease Calculator

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Students learn about the concept of percent change by exploring a tutorial. They can then test their knowledge by taking a ten question assessment that increases in difficulty as they correctly answer questions.
Website
Arizona State University

Chicana and Chicano Space: Inquiry

For Students 9th - 10th
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Measurement: Scale Distances or Dimensions

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find scale dimensions using actual measurements and a ratio or proportion.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Equivalent Ratios: Lesson 5

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
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."
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Equivalent Ratios: Lesson 8

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
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."
Activity
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Ratios & Percentages: Solving Proportions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn how to solve proportions. The mathematics resource consists of examples and practice problems with answers.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Weighted Average

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson will introduce the meaning of weighted average, and demonstrate how to solve for the weighted average of a data set. Students can look at a presentation and then take an online quiz.
Activity
Free Math Help

Free Math Help: Proportions and Ratios

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The tutorial investigates proportions and ratios. The lesson includes explanations on solving problems with ratios using cross multiplication.

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