Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Ratios and Proportional Relationships 6.rp.3d Worksheets
Print or create worksheets or flashcards to assess students' understanding of ratio equations.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Rectangle Perimeter 3
The purpose of this task is to ask students to write expressions and to consider what it means for two expressions to be equivalent. Aligns with 6.EE.A.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Curious George: Fair Shares
Use this game resource to foster the skill of counting and separating a set up to 12 into two or three equal groups (equal partitioning or fair sharing).
PBS
Pbs: Overruled
See if the King, Queen, or one of their loyal subjects can figure out how to solve the problem of their crummy bridge. This animated video from Math Snacks focuses on using what you know about converting measurements and reading a line...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Dragon Scales
In this lesson, students create a class mural by using scale, ratio, and proportion. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Finals Week Day 1
Sixth graders define rate and give examples of how they can use rates.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ratio Tables
Explains what ratio tables are. Includes simple examples and a few practice problems.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Cool Kool Aid Experiment
This lesson allows young scholars to practice writing and solving rates by conducting an experiment to find the best tasting Kool-Aid mixture. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation, extension as well as ways to manage behavior...
Other
Pbs Mathline: Fractions to Half or Half Not [Pdf]
This tutorial features a hands-on lesson that teaches equivalent fractions for grades 3-4. Students explore fractional parts equivalent to one-half. Lesson plan includes an extensive list of materials, worksheets, extension activities...
Other
Ohio Department of Education: Fifth Grade Achievement Test (Practice Test) [Pdf]
Half-length practice test for the third grade OAT (Ohio Achievement Test). The test includes 17 multiple-choice and 3 open-response question dealing with topics such as measurement (unit conversion, time), geometry (volume, area), data...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Roland Eotvos
Vasarosnamenyi Baro Eotvos Lorand, better known as Roland Eotvos or Lorand Eotvos throughout much of the world, was a Hungarian physicist who is most recognized for his extensive experimental work involving gravity, but who also made...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What's the Conductivity of Gatorade?
Students use conductivity meters to measure various salt and water solutions, as indicated by the number of LEDs (light emitting diodes) that illuminate on the meter. Students create calibration curves using known amounts of table salt...
PBS
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...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Tropical Forest Foragers
The term "tropical-forest foragers," or "pygmies," refers to ethno-linguistically diverse peoples distributed across the forested regions of Central Africa who are particularly short in stature and who traditionally have lived by...