Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Ratios and Proportional Relationships 7.rp.2d Worksheets
Print or create worksheets or flashcards to assess students' understanding of graphs and the significance of x and y in relation to proportionality.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Need for Speed
After viewing an introductory illustrated podcast on speed, distance, time, and velocity, young scholars explore distance-time graphs using interactive websites. Working in cooperative learning groups, students will investigate the...
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Alex: Exploring Similar Figures Using Proportions
In this lesson, students will explore the concept of similarity. Students will first simplify ratios, solve proportions using the cross product property, and use properties of proportions to solve real-world problems. Similar polygons...
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Alex: Using Scale Factors: Drawing Your Body to Scale
Teachers will use this lesson to review and apply skills involving scale factors. Teachers will use illuminations website to review scale factor. Then students will be given instructions to draw their bodies to scale.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Scale Drawings
During this lesson students practice measuring and converting to scaled measurements. Students measure various places on campus, such as a classroom or the gym. They place their findings on a spreadsheet. After converting these...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Rates and Unit Rates Assessment
The students will be taking a summative assessment about rates and unit rates.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Review of Rates and Unit Rates
In this lesson the students will be reviewing for their assessment on rates and unit rates using a fun game.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Understanding Rates and Unit Rates Stations Activity
The students will get the opportunity to work in stations to reinforce and deepen their understanding of rates and unit rates.
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.
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Percents Combined: Proportional Relationships With Multistep Ratio and Percent Problems
Learn how to calculate sale price when combining two "percent-off" discounts in this video from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students develop and share a variety of strategies, including modeling with a 10 x 10 grid to...
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Pbs: Scale City: Scaling Up Rectangles in the Real World
In this video, students explore Depression-era post office murals and modern outdoor murals to learn how artists use proportional reasoning and measurement to create large-scale paintings. The video ends with the question, "How do...
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Pbs: Scale City: Inverse Proportions and Shadows in the Real World
In this video, students take a quick trip through the history of drive-in theaters and are then asked to consider the question, "What is the relationship between the size of an object's shadow and the object's distance from a light...
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Pbs: Scale City: Scaling Up Recipes and Circles in the Real World
In this video, students visit a small-town festival that features the world's largest stainless steel skillet. In addition to a question about scaling recipes, they also are asked how increasing or decreasing the radius of a circle...
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Pbs Learning Media: Think Math
Think Math offers a collection of 43 KET-produced resources from Math at the Core: Middle School, including 17 Scale City videos and interactives about proportional reasoning, 14 Wild Fractions animations and games that feature visual...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Pbs: Soul Food Junkies: Portions
Consider the relationships among health, portion size, and traditional soul food and fast food diets in this video from the Center for Asian American Media.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Proportions: Introduction
Explains the basics and terminology of proportions.