Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Identify Proportional Relationships
Practice telling whether or not the relationship between two quantities is proportional by analyzing word problems. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Proportions
This WebMath site provides a general description of proportions. Content also includes a 'problem solver' which lists step-by-step instructions on how to obtain the correct answer.
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.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Solving a Ratio With & Without a Diagram
A student is searching for a solution to a ratio question without using a diagram. Dr. Math helps to break it down both with and without a diagram. An understanding of fractions, multiplication, and basic algebra is necessary to get this...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Rates and Proportional Relationships
A variety of questions about rates and proportional relationships involving graphs, tables, and equations. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video, or receive hints.
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Proportionality
Acquire a deeper understanding of the concept of proportionality. Concise definitions, detailed examples, and an interactive worksheet to apply what you have learned.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Graphing Proportional Relationships
Students work with rates of change to graph proportional relationships. They receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video, or receive hints.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ee Stuffing Envelopes
Eighth graders are asked to compare the income earned from two summer jobs stuffing envelopes. They are to draw graphs, write equations, and interpret the graphs. This task provides students with an opportunity to take the step from unit...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ee Coffee by the Pound
In this task about the cost of coffee, 8th graders find the cost per pound, how much can be purchased for one dollar, what the graph will look like, and what the slope means. Aligns with 8.EE.B.5.
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.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ee Who Has the Best Job?
This problem asks students to compare the incomes for two different jobs, draw their graphs, and explain whether the graphs alone would show who makes the most per hour. Aligns with 8.EE.B.5.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ee Comparing Speeds in Graphs and Equations
This task provides the opportunity for students to reason about graphs, slopes, and rates without having a scale on the axes or an equation to represent the graphs. Aligns with 8.EE.B.5.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ee Peaches and Plums
In this task, 8th graders are shown graphs of two linear functions and are asked to compare the costs per pound of two fruits without knowing their actual prices. To do this, they need to think about slope and unit rates. Aligns with...
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Identify Proportional Relationships From Graphs
Practice identifying proportional relationships from graphs.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Practical Algebra Lessons
Pre-algebra and algebra lessons, from negative numbers through pre-calculus. Grouped by level of study. Lessons are practical in nature informal in tone, and contain many worked examples and warnings about problem areas and probable...
Purple Math
Purplemath: Practical Algebra Lessons
Pre-Algebra and algebra lessons, from negative numbers through Pre-Calculus. Grouped by level of study. Lessons are practical in nature, informal in tone, and contain many worked examples and warnings about problem areas and probable...
PBS
Pbs: Recognize and Represent Proportional Relationships Between Quantities: Ratio, Proportion, Cross Multiply, Divide
In this Cyberchase media gallery, learn about ratio and proportion and how to use an algebraic shortcut to solve proportion problems. In the accompanying classroom activity, students play a game called the "Pom-Pom Nose Push," in which...
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.