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Lesson Plan
University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Snail Pace [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
This task challenges a student to demonstrate understanding of concepts involved in rates. Students must make sense of proportional relationships of speed in minutes and inches.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Mathline: Aw Chute Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will design and construct parachutes to determine the rate of descent using the distance formula. Printable lesson
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 3 Ratios and Rates

For Students 9th - 10th
Use Glencoe's Math Course 3 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of ratios and rates. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Rates

For Students 6th - 8th
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of rates. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It" button...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes Ratios and Rates

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learners assess their mathematics skills by answering these randomly generated multiple choice questions. Topics included are simplifying ratios, solving ratios, and rates.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Calculating Speed

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad calculates the speed of each broom.
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Student Achievement Partners

Illustrative Mathematics: The Escalator, Assessment Variation [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Use this assessment to track students understanding of ratios and rates.
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Handout
Goodwill

Gcf Global: Distance Word Problems

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to read and understand distance word problems so you can solve them.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Math Grade 4

For Students 4th
Browse resources related to fourth-grade math standards. Click on a topic for interactive lessons, videos, and extra practice.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Math Grade 5

For Students 5th
Browse resources related to fifth-grade math standards. Click on a topic for interactive lessons, videos, and extra practice.
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Lesson Plan
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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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Analyze Units

For Students 9th - 10th
Get independent practice working with analyzing unit rates. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
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Handout
MadSci Network

Msn: What Regulates the Speed of Hydrogen Fusion?

For Students 6th - 8th
From the Mad Scientist Network web site. Using a question and answer format, this page describes the various types of fusion processes and the physical requirements needed for their initiation and sustenance. Factors affecting the rates...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Speed of Ascent

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Hacker and the CyberSquad race to reach the Good Vibration on staircases that grow at different rates and have steps of varying sizes.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How Many Jelly Beans?

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Inez estimates whether she has enough jelly beans in her large container to decorate all of the cookies in her batch.
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Lesson Plan
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Coast to Coast With Alice

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students learn to solve a real-world problem comparing automobile travel in the early 1900's and travel today. They follow the route taken by Alice in 1909 from New York City to San Francisco and determine how long the...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Returns on a Share of Stock

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will determine the internal rate of return of the cashflows associated with the stock purchase, dividends, and sale. They will carry out explorations by varying the selling price of the stock and examining the...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students deal with cash flow and its present value, which is its worth in today's dollars. They will compare alternative investments by determining their Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return. They will also...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Effective Annual Rate & Nominal Rate

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use the effective annual rate calculation to compare the nominal rates of various financial instruments.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Staircases of Shangri La

For Students 6th - 8th
Hacker and the CyberSquad use two different staircases as they race to reach the Good Vibration in this video segment from Cyberchase.
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eBook
Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand the rates and mechanisms of chemical change. These topics stand in contrast to the subjects of equilibrium and thermodynamics that control the direction of chemical change.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Helping With math.com: Ratios and Unit Rates

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This site contains a lesson about ratios and unit rates as well as guided and independent practice for students to review the skills.
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Activity
Other

Odyssey of the Mind: Up to Speed

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students "learn about vehicles, velocity, angles, and energy," as they participate in a variety of creative and hands-on activities, like building adjustable ramps, researching modes of transportation, and predicting "what transportation...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Unit Rates: Lesson 5

For Students 7th - 8th
This lesson defines the phrase "unit rate" and explains the significance of unit rates. It is 5 of 5 in the series titled "Unit Rates."