McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Chapter Test Exploring Ratio, Proportions, and Percent
The interactive assessment examines ratios, proportions, and percents. Students complete 14 questions created by Glencoe. Hints and solutions are included.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Chapter Test Ratio, Proportion, and Percent
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking chapter test to assess your knowledge on ratios, proportions, and percents. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. After completing the test students can click the "Check It" button and...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Similarity and Proportion Exercises
Twenty-four problems cover the topic of similarity and proportion in various settings. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the "View Solution"...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Chapter Test Ratio, Proportion, and Percent
The interactive assessment examines ratios, proportions, and percents. Students complete 18 questions created by Glencoe. Hints and solutions are included.
University of Arizona
Pulse: From Global to City Air: Air Quality, City Design and Disease
Students are challenged to design a healthy city in this unit plan. The cross-curricular unit covers content standards for ninth grade in science, language arts, world geography, and math. Students explore air quality and the impact it...
Other
Nikon Corporation: Feel Nikon: Universcale
Amazing site examines size from the most elementary particle to the extremities of space, and everything in between. This interactive feature will encourage you to look differently at your size in relation to the rest of the universe.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway:estimate and Find Solutions to Problems With Similarity and Rates
Given application problems involving similarity and rates, the student will estimate and determine the solutions to the problems.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Art Appreciation: Unit 3: Technical Aspects of Art
In this third unit of a course on Art Appreciation, students learn how to describe the technical aspects of an artist's work by discussing elements of art and principles of design. They also look at the stylistic qualities of an artist's...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Aiming for the Basketball Hall of Fame
In this video segment from TV 411, two Atlanta Hawks players plan a driving route to reach the Basketball Hall of Fame. They use map scales to estimate their travel distances.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Algebra 1: Semester 1: Equations
A learning module through which students learn about equations including the following: Translating words into equations and equations into words, The Properties of Equality to help solving equations, Techniques for solving simple...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Architects in Action
Through this instructional activity, students will learn how to use ratios to create a scale drawing of their classroom's floor plan. It provides adaptations, discussion questions, assessment rubric, and suggested readings to help...
University of California
World History for Us All: Getting Our Bearings: Maps of Time, Space, and History
Understanding history requires students to be able to see the big picture. This teaching unit introduces students to tools they can use to investigate history. Topics covered include cartography, chronography, and maps of space, time and...
University of South Florida
Fcat: Baseball Proportion: Teacher Notes
Students learn about proportions using regular and souvenir baseball bats. This site contains a complete lesson plan, which is available in a printable version.
Cuemath
Cuemath: Proportion
A comprehensive guide for learning all about proportions with definitions, proportion formulas, types of proportions, properties of proportions, the difference between ratio and proportion, solved examples, and practice questions.
OER Commons
Oer Commons: Scale
Seventh graders will explore scale and use it to find measurements in scale drawings.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Let's Learn
This collection of resources for children ages 3-8 are drawn from the public television series Let's Learn, a partnership between the WNET Group and the New York City Department of Education. Let's Learn aims to provide our young...
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Draw a Portrait
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.
Goshen College
Learning to Draw by Learning the Basic Seeing Skills
Ideas taken from the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" are outlined here. This article discusses seven concepts that students need to be able to do to master the art of drawing.
Goshen College
Learning to Draw by Learning the Basic Seeing Skills
Ideas taken from the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" are outlined here. This article discusses seven concepts that students need to be able to do to master the art of drawing.
University of South Florida
Fcat: Two for One Box Company: Teacher Notes
At this site students use proportions to explore how volume is effected by dimension changes. This hands-on activity can be done individually or in pairs.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Sears Tower vs. Taipei 101
Students will discover the height of serveral buildings using proportions.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: Bianca Gets in Gear
Bianca visits a bike shop and learns how bicycle gears work in this Cyberchase video segment. [3:26]
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Similarity
This site contains a lesson plan for high school age learners. The objective is to discover the factor of proportionality in similar polygons and to relate this factor to the perimeters and areas of similar polygons.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Balance
ArtLex provides a complete description of the term, "balance," with various links to show how balance relates to art. A work by Vermeer is provided as an example.