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Student Achievement Partners

Illustrative Mathematics: Riding at a Constant Speed [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Assess students understanding of proportional relationships with this assessment using speed.
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Lesson Plan
University of South Florida

Fcat: Baseball Proportion: Teacher Notes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students learn about proportions using regular and souvenir baseball bats. This site contains a complete lesson plan, which is available in a printable version.
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OER Commons

Oer Commons: Calculating the Unit Rate of a Ratio Situation

For Teachers 7th Standards
Seventh graders find the unit rate of a ratio situation.
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OER Commons

Oer Commons: Multiplication Properties of Equality

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders use the multiplication property of equality to justify their solution to a ratio problem.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: The Power of Probability

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will learn and reinforce skills for strategies to identify favorable and total outcomes, calculating simple and compound probability, sampling and proportions and using probability concepts to solve real-world problems.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Solving the Unknown With Algebra

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will learn and reinforce skills for solving for unknowns, manipulating equations while keeping them in balance, using formulas to solve real-world challenges, and working with proportions, radicals and exponents.
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eBook
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Ratios and Proportions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Get independent practice working with ratios and proportions. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Solving Proportions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Get independent practice working with solving proportions. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
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Lesson Plan
Marilyn J. Brackney

Imagination Factory: Draw a Portrait

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In addition to providing suggestions for drawing the perfect portrait, Kids at Art looks at Leonardo da Vinci and his ideas about depicting the human figure.
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Website
Arizona State University

Chicana and Chicano Space: Inquiry

For Students 9th - 10th
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
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Math.com

Math.com: Proportions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explains proportions along with the formula to determine if the ratios are equal. An interactive practice activity is included.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Making Cookies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students will reduce a cafeteria recipe to suit a household recipe. They use compatible numbers to choose smaller measurements while retaining the original proportions.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Real Life Real World Activity: Air Traffic Control

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will model and solve air traffic control problems with geometry software. The Cabri Jr. application will be used to construct a model of the problem situation and concepts from trigonometry and proportions are...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: How Do You Measure Up? (With the Ti 10)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this activity, students measure weight, height, and length with the help of a balance, scales, rulers, yardstick, and tape measures. They use their TI-10 to find proportions and to round off answers to whole numbers.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Sears Tower vs. Taipei 101

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will discover the height of serveral buildings using proportions.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today Wing Tabs Save Fuel

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using the USA TODAY Infograph, 'Wing tabs save fuel', ratios and proportions will be used to explore the concept of similarity between a drawing/model and the actual dimensions. The effects of dilation (size change) on an image and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: Catching the Kidnapper

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad and Digit construct a physical profile of the person who kidnapped Choocroca, a giant cybercrocodile. [2:49]
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Primary Resources

Primary Resources: Ratio and Proportion

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A collection of teacher resources to aid in teaching and reviewing ratio and proportion in math. There are worksheets, PowerPoint presentations, activities, and smartboard activities available for the teacher to download.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Proportions

For Students 9th - 10th
The tutorial investigates proportions. Definitions, examples, and practice problems with solutions are included.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Proportions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The learning activity consists of practice problems and word problems that investigate proportions. Detailed explanations are included.
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Saddleback College

Algebra2 Go: Prealgebra

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The resource consists of comprehensive learning tools such as class notes, video lectures, and templates through which students can review prealgebra topics.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Math Space Odyssey: How Much Do You Weigh in Outer Space?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Demonstrate the ability to apply the use of decimals, fractions, ratios and proportions to situations based upon given information about planets in the solar system.
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PBS

Pbs Mathline: Bead Dazzling (Proportional Reasoning) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A comprehensive lesson plan on algebraic thinking where students create and identify patterns using proportional reasoning. Research based, this lesson plan includes technology connections, items for discussion, and extension activities.
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PBS

Pbs Mathline Lesson: Mix It Up [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A lesson based on the story, "Oliver's Fruit Salad," where young scholars explore the concept of proportional reasoning through modeling, student sharing, and questioning. A great introductory lesson for this concept that is sure to...