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E workshop.on.ca: Effective Instruction in Math, 4 6: Big Ideas [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
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...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Scale City: Similar Figures and Unknown Heights in Practice

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
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...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Graffiti Art: Supplies

For Students 6th - 8th
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...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Area and Volume in Kapa Cloth Making

For Students 6th - 8th
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...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Real World Proportional Relationships: Gender Wage Gap

For Students 6th - 8th
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...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Ski Jumping: Understanding Proportional Relationships

For Students 6th - 8th
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.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Constant of Proportionality From Tables (With Equations)

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Practice finding the constant of proportionality from tables with equations.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Constant of Proportionality From Equations

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Practice finding the constant of proportionality in equations.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Interpret Constants of Proportionality

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Practice interpreting constants of proportionality.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Interpret Constant of Proportionality in Graphs

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Practice interpreting the constant of proportionality in graphs.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Constant of Proportionality From Tables

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Practice finding the Constant of proportionality from tables.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Constant of Proportionality From Graphs

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Practice finding constant of proportionality from graphs.
Handout
Quia

Ixl Learning: Constant of Proportionality

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Brush up on your math skills relating to the constant of proportionality then try some practice problems to test your understanding.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Using Equations to Describe Proportions: Lesson 3

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

Sophia: Using Equations to Describe Proportions: Lesson 4

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
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."
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Using Equations to Describe Proportions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explains how proportional relationships can be described using equations.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Scale City: Proportional Relationships in the Real World

For Students 6th - 8th
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'...
Website
Other

The Futures Channel: Proportional Reasoning

For Students 9th - 10th
"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...
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Nutrition and Cycling

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Writing Proportions

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
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.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Proportion Word Problems

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
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.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Solving Proportions

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Practice solving basic proportions. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Triathlon and Fitness

For Students 5th - 8th
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...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Mathline Lesson: Mix It Up [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...