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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Price Per Pound and Pounds Per Dollar

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars use ratios to answer four questions about rate and pounds in this performance task.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Hippos Love Pumpkins

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use ratios to answer four questions about rates in situations involving unusual units in this performance task.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Mangos for Sale

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use ratios and unit rates to answer this performance task.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Jim and Jesse's Money

For Teachers 6th
In this real-world context, 6th graders are given the ratio of Jim's money to Jesse's and the amounts they have spent so far on a road trip, and they must calculate what each person had at the start of the trip. Aligns with 6.RP.A.3.
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Math Planet

Math Planet: Pre Algebra: Ratios and Percent: Rates and Ratios

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what rates and ratios are and how they are different. Shows how to solve an example problem about ratios and presents a video demonstrating how to show a ratio as a fraction or a decimal. [1:52]
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Ratios & Percentages: Unit Rate

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn about unit rate. The mathematics resource consists of examples and practice problems with answers.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Rate Review

For Students 6th Standards
Explains what rates and unit rates are, and how unit rates are used for solving problems. Includes a practice problem.
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Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Unit Rate Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the unit rate or unit price with this calculator.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Comparing Ratios and Fractions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Lawrence Hall of Science

The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Percents Are Ratios

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This Math Page tutorial explains how percents are ratios and then features a practice exercise.
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The Math League

The Math League: Ratio and Proportion

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This tutorial provides definitions and examples of ratios and proportions and features comparing ratios and converting rates.
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Quia

Quia: Rates, Ratios, and Proportions

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
One or two players can play a learning game that reviews rates, ratios, and proportions.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Ratios and Fractions

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A seventh-grade student is having trouble understanding ratios, fractions, and simplest form. Dr. Math to the rescue! Real-world, easy to grasp examples.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Fraction Operations, Rates, Ratios

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Twenty-five problems presented on the topics: evaluating expression with fractional values, fraction operations, rates, and ratios. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Proportion Playground

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive simulation that teaches about ratios, proportional reasoning, and unit rate by making predictions and testing proportions while designing a necklace, throwing balloons filled with paint, playing billiards, or shopping for...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Cool Kool Aid Experiment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Seventh grade middle schoolers have had wide-ranging experiences with fractions and operations on fractions, but ratios and rates may be new concepts for them. This activity introduces students to the idea of rates via a familiar and...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Arithmetic: Proportions

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students write proportions and then solve proportions by using equivalent rates. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Rates and Ratios

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Find a quick, concise explanation of rates and ratios. Examples are given and clearly explained.
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Extra Practice Quiz Percent as a Ratio

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find the percent using a ratio and find a ratio using a percent. Read the interactive quiz rules and then click on the "Begin" ticket. If you answer incorrectly you get one more chance to try again then you are told the correct answer....
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Doina Popovici

Math Play: Unit Rate Halloween Math Game

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
An online math game where students match unit rates in different forms.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Understanding Slope as a Ratio

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Finished investigating slope as an angle and will now do some investigation with slope as a ratio. It will then be a bridge to go back to linear equations (with the connection to rate of change). There...
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Other

Kqed: The Lowdown: Life Expectancy: Finding Ratio Relationships

For Students 6th - 8th
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.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Comparing Rates

For Students 5th - 7th
Example problem: Three different stores are offering a deal on pencils. Which store has the lowest price per pencil? Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Finals Week Day 1

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders define rate and give examples of how they can use rates.

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