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Helping With math.com: Ratios and Unit Rates
This site contains a lesson about ratios and unit rates as well as guided and independent practice for students to review the skills.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Unit Rates
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson, students learn to find unit rates. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and attempt practice problems.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ratio Word Problems
Practice solving ratio word problems like, "If Ben reads 10 pages in 15 minutes, how long does it take him to read 40 pages?" Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or...
Quia
Quia: Rates, Ratios, and Proportions
One or two players can play a learning game that reviews rates, ratios, and proportions.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Rate Language 6.rp.2 Worksheets
Print or create worksheets or flashcards to assess students' understanding of ratio concepts.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Jim and Jesse's Money
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.
Government of Alberta
Learn alberta.ca: Math Interactives: Rate/ratio/proportion (Object Interactive)
This highly interactive resource uses the backdrop of digital photography to explore equivalent forms of 3-term ratios. Printable activities, solutions, and learning strategies are also provided.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Proportional Relationships
Practice telling whether or not the relationship between two quantities is proportional by reasoning about equivalent ratios. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or...
Virtual Nerd
Virtual Nerd: How Do You Solve a Word Problem Using Unit Rates?
Word problems allow you to see the real world uses of math! This tutorial shows you how to take a rate and convert it to a unit rate. Then, you can use that unit rate to calculate your answer. Watch this tutorial to learn all about it!
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Proportions
[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...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ratios and Fractions
A seventh-grade student is having trouble understanding ratios, fractions, and simplest form. Dr. Math to the rescue! Real-world, easy to grasp examples.
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.
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: Markup and Commission Word Problems
Practice solving word problems involving price markups and commission fees. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Discount, Tax, and Tip Word Problems
Practice solving word problems involving price discounts, taxes, and tip calculations. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Arcademics
Arcademics: Dirt Bike
Solving proportions by finding the missing part and advance your dirt bike to the finish line.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Rates With Fractions: Practice
Practice computing rates associated with ratios of fractions or decimals. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Interpreting Graphs of Proportional Relationships
Practice reading and analyzing graphs of proportional relationships. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Converting Square Units
In this task, 6th graders must inches to feet in order to find the area of a rectangular board and explain the error in the calculations made by the board owner. Aligns with 6.RP.A.3.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Units
In this exercise, students solve word problems that involve using different units. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Percent Word Problems
Practice solving word problems involving percents. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.g Painting a Barn
This task asks students to determine the area of the exterior walls of a barn and to calculate how many gallons of paint would be needed to cover them, as well as the cost of the paint. Aligns with 6.G.A and 6.RP.A.3.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ee Sore Throats, Variation 2
In this task where two saltwater solutions are compared, 8th graders must find equivalent ratios, write an equation that works for both solutions, draw the equation's graph, and interpret the slope as a unit rate. Aligns with 8.EE.B.5.