University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Snail Pace [Pdf]
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.
PBS
Pbs Mathline: Aw Chute Lesson Plan
Students will design and construct parachutes to determine the rate of descent using the distance formula. Printable lesson
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 3 Ratios and Rates
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...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Rates
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...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes Ratios and Rates
Learners assess their mathematics skills by answering these randomly generated multiple choice questions. Topics included are simplifying ratios, solving ratios, and rates.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Calculating Speed
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad calculates the speed of each broom.
Student Achievement Partners
Illustrative Mathematics: The Escalator, Assessment Variation [Pdf]
Use this assessment to track students understanding of ratios and rates.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Distance Word Problems
Learn how to read and understand distance word problems so you can solve them.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Math Grade 4
Browse resources related to fourth-grade math standards. Click on a topic for interactive lessons, videos, and extra practice.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Math Grade 5
Browse resources related to fifth-grade math standards. Click on a topic for interactive lessons, videos, and extra practice.
OER Commons
Oer Commons: Calculating the Unit Rate of a Ratio Situation
Seventh graders find the unit rate of a ratio situation.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Analyze Units
Get independent practice working with analyzing unit rates. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
MadSci Network
Msn: What Regulates the Speed of Hydrogen Fusion?
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Speed of Ascent
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How Many Jelly Beans?
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.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Coast to Coast With Alice
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...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Returns on a Share of Stock
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...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return
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...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Effective Annual Rate & Nominal Rate
In this activity, students use the effective annual rate calculation to compare the nominal rates of various financial instruments.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Staircases of Shangri La
Hacker and the CyberSquad use two different staircases as they race to reach the Good Vibration in this video segment from Cyberchase.
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics
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.
Other
Helping With math.com: Ratios and Unit Rates
This site contains a lesson about ratios and unit rates as well as guided and independent practice for students to review the skills.
Other
Odyssey of the Mind: Up to Speed
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Unit Rates: Lesson 5
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."