Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Extending and Comparing Ratios
Sixth graders continue to work on understanding and comparing ratios.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Review 3: Who's Faster? Comparing Ratios & Rates
Who's faster? What is the better deal? How do you know? Students apply their knowledge of ratios and rates in order to determine how they relate to each other.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes Comparing With Ratios and Rates
The randomly generated questions examine ratio and rate comparisons. Students answer the multiple choice questions which include hints and solutions.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes Ratios 3
Learners assess their mathematics skills by answering these randomly generated multiple choice questions. Topics included are ratios in simplest form, ratio comparisons, and equivalent ratios.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes Ratios 2
The randomly generated questions examine ratios. Students answer the multiple choice questions which include hints and solutions.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Comparing Ratios and Fractions
Dr. Math helps a student see the connection between fractions and ratios using the names of Flintstone characters. A clever approach that requires an understanding of basic algebra concepts.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Ratios
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students write ratios, order ratios from least to greatest and greatest to least and compare ratio. Students examine guided notes, review guided...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ratio Tables
Explains what ratio tables are. Includes simple examples and a few practice problems.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Equivalent Ratios
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn what ratios are and how to arrive at equivalent ratios. Identify and write equivalent ratios.
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,...
The Math League
The Math League: Ratio
This site gives a definition of a ratio along with two word problems. Also shows the student how to compare ratios using fractions.
Quia
Ixl Learning: Ratios
Brush up on your math skills relating to ratios then try some practice problems to test your understanding.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Ratio/proportion: Targeted Math Instruction
At the end of this lesson about ratio/proportion, students will be able to recognize and apply ratios and proportions to solve real-life problems and solve for any unknown component.
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Living Wages in Ca: Ratio and Rate in the Real World
In this KQED infographic, find out how much an adult in different-sized households needs to make to pay for basic monthly living expenses. In the accompanying classroom activity, students solve real-life problems involving rate and ratio...
The Math League
The Math League: Ratio and Proportion
This tutorial provides definitions and examples of ratios and proportions and features comparing ratios and converting rates.
PBS
Pbs: Shower vs. Bath: Ratio and Rate
Compare the cost of taking a shower with the cost of taking a bath. This interactive exercise focuses on using what you know about ratios to make a prediction about whether a shower or a bath is most cost effective and then requires...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Comparison of Ratios in Decimal Form
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Write and compare ratios in decimal form
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Ratio Calculator
The ratio calculator performs three types of operations and shows the steps to solve. It simplifies ratios or creates an equivalent ratio when one side of the ratio is empty, solves ratios for the one missing value when comparing ratios...
Other
Macomb Intermediate School District: Mathematics: Ratios and Rates [Pdf]
Activities for students that allow them to explore the concept of comparing ratios and unit rates using real-world scenarios.
The Math League
The Math League: Ratio and Proportion
Detailed explanations of ratio, comparing ratios, proportion, rate, converting rates, and average rate of speed, all with examples.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Get Help With Ratios
This WebMath site provides a brief description and helpful hints regarding ratios. Content also includes an interactive problem solver complete with a full description of how the answer was accomplished.
PBS
Pbs: Frontline: Compare Health Issues in Ecuador and the United States
As a class watch a presentation about the issues facing health care in Ecuador. After viewing, have students discuss the differences between the United States and Ecuador's health care issues such as mortality rates, diseases, and ratio...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Comparison of Ratios in Decimal Form
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert ratios to decimal form and then compare the ratios.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Lowdown: Life Expectancy: Finding Ratio Relationships
In this interactive map, learn how life expectancy, obesity, hypertension, and physical activity rates have changed dramatically throughout the United States over the last three decades. The accompanying classroom activity supports...