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E workshop.on.ca: Effective Instruction in Math, 4 6: Big Ideas [Pdf]
Volume 1 in an eworkshop Guide to Effective Instruction in Math outlines and illustrates instructional strategies for explaining five big ideas of number sense and numeration to students in grades 4 through 6: quantity, operational...
PBS
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...
PBS
Pbs: Graffiti Art: Supplies
Learn how to calculate the area of paintings and shapes as graffiti artist Scape Martinez uses math to plan the supplies required for his artwork in this video from the Center for Asian American Media. In the accompanying classroom...
PBS
Pbs: Area and Volume in Kapa Cloth Making
A Hawaiian kapa artist explains how she uses area and measurements as part of her art-making process in this video from the Center for Asian American Media. In the accompanying classroom activity, students watch the video and learn how...
PBS
Pbs: Real World Proportional Relationships: Gender Wage Gap
Using this infographic, learn how wage equity today compares with data from 50 years ago, at the dawn of the equal pay movement. The accompanying classroom activity invites students to explore the change in the gender wage gap from 1965...
PBS
Pbs: Ski Jumping: Understanding Proportional Relationships
Investigate the slopes involved in ski jumping. This video focuses on defining slope, showing how to calculate slope on a graph, with an expression, and positive and negative slopes.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Constant of Proportionality From Tables (With Equations)
Practice finding the constant of proportionality from tables with equations.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Constant of Proportionality From Equations
Practice finding the constant of proportionality in equations.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Interpret Constants of Proportionality
Practice interpreting constants of proportionality.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Interpret Constant of Proportionality in Graphs
Practice interpreting the constant of proportionality in graphs.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Constant of Proportionality From Tables
Practice finding the Constant of proportionality from tables.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Constant of Proportionality From Graphs
Practice finding constant of proportionality from graphs.
Quia
Ixl Learning: Constant of Proportionality
Brush up on your math skills relating to the constant of proportionality then try some practice problems to test your understanding.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Using Equations to Describe Proportions: Lesson 3
This lesson explains how proportional relationships can be described using equations. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Using Equations to Describe Proportions."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Using Equations to Describe Proportions: Lesson 4
This lesson explains how proportional relationships can be described using equations. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Using Equations to Describe Proportions."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Using Equations to Describe Proportions
This lesson explains how proportional relationships can be described using equations.
PBS
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'...
Other
The Futures Channel: Proportional Reasoning
"Connecting learning to the real world" is the goal of the Futures Channel. Through the use of short videos, teachers can integrate real-world examples of how math and science are used in everyday life. Complete teaching guidelines...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Nutrition and Cycling
Can you analyse the nutritional needs of a long-distance cyclist to help him plan his calorie intake? This activity provides a real-life context for handling data, converting units and proportional reasoning and is aimed at secondary...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Writing Proportions
Practice writing proportions to describe real-world situations. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Proportion Word Problems
Practice setting up and solving proportions to solve word problems. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Solving Proportions
Practice solving basic proportions. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Triathlon and Fitness
The triathlon is a physically gruelling challenge. Can you work out which athlete burnt the most calories? This activity provides a real-life context for working with proportionality, speed, rates, and units of measurement and is aimed...
PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson: Mix It Up [Pdf]
A lesson based on the story, "Oliver's Fruit Salad," where students explore the concept of proportional reasoning through modeling, student sharing, and questioning. A great introductory lesson for this concept that is sure to engage...