Illustrative Mathematics
Art Class, Assessment Variation
Play with paint and decide the ratio to make different shades of green. When mixing paint colors, your painters should decide which ratios make the same shade and what is needed to mix other ratios for a different shade of green. This is...
Illustrative Mathematics
Walk-a-thon 1
Your mathematician's job is to explore the relationship between hours and miles walked during a walk-a-thon. The activity compels your learners to experiment with different means in finding out this proportional relationship. The answer...
Illustrative Mathematics
Cooking with the Whole Cup
Whoops! Travis accidentally put too much butter into the recipe. Your bakers must find out how to alter the recipe to accommodate different changes by using unit rates and ratios . The activity has multiple parts and calculations with...
Curated OER
Proportionality Using Labyrinths and Mazes
Conduct research on the Internet about labyrinths and mazes to learn about proportions and ratios. Inquisitive minds design their own maze, one maze is chosen and proportionately enlarged to 20 feet by 30 feet. This is a fun challenge...
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Achieve: Miniature Golf Design Task [Pdf]
In this task students are asked to combine numerous skills to create a miniature golf hole. Students create a scale drawing of the hole, calculate the area of the hole and determine the percentage of total area used. In addition,...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Why the Shape of Your Screen Matters
In this video, Brian Gervase explains how the size a of television screen affects how much of a movie people are able to watch. [3:33] Followed by a short quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Interactive Middle School Math 7 for Ccss
A complete CCSS Grade 7 Mathematics course that includes interactives in every lesson, plus videos, hands-on activities, and questions with immediate feedback. Every lesson also has specifically chosen 'Related Modalities' that teach the...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Pass the Ball
In this activity, students use mathematics to examine patterns that occur in a specific scenario and predict future events for the scenario. Data is collected on the time it takes to pass a ball. The students plot graphs, fit the data...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Weighted Average
This lesson will introduce the meaning of weighted average, and demonstrate how to solve for the weighted average of a data set. Students can look at a presentation and then take an online quiz.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Weighted Average and Mixture Problems
This lesson will demonstrate how to solve mixture problems using weighted averages. Students can explore a PowerPoint presentation and then take an online quiz.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp Two School Dance
The purpose of this task is to see how well students students understand and reason with ratios. This task was adapted from problem #14 on the 2011 American Mathematics Competition (AMC) 8 Test. Aligns with 7.RP.A.3. The site provides a...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp,ee Gotham City Taxis
The purpose of this task is to give students an opportunity to solve a multi-step ratio problem that can be approached in many ways. The site includes a task and the solution.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp the Price of Bread
The purpose of this task is for students to calculate the percent increase and relative cost in a real-world context. This task is part of a set collaboratively developed with Money as You Learn, an initiative of the President's Advisory...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee,rp 7.ee,rp Anna in d.c.
The purpose of this task is to give students an opportunity to solve a multi-step percentage problem that can be approached in many ways. Because the tax and tip in this problem are a fixed percentage of the cost of the meal, the total...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp Tax and Tip
This site provides a problem with completed solutions for that problem. This problem covers the topic of sales tax and tips. The problem aligns with 7.RP.A.3.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp Walk a Thon 2
The purpose of this task is for students to translate information about a context involving constant speed into information presented in a table and to find the time it takes to travel a unit distance as well as the distance traveled per...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Selecting and Using Appropriate Forms of Rational Numbers
Given real-life problems, the student will select an appropriate method and solve problems involving proportional relationships.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Using Multiplication by a Constant Factor
Given problems involving proportional relationships, the student will use multiplication by a constant factor to solve the problems.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Proportions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students recognize proportions as a statement of equivalent ratios. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos...
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...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Proportions to Find Percent, P
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students use a proportion to find a percent. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and attempt practice...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Tip Estimation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students estimate 15% of a total price to estimate tips. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and attempt...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Proportions Using Cross Products
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students write proportions and then solve proportions by using cross-products. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Forms of Ratios
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students find and reduce ratios. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and attempt practice problems.