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Ratios and Proportions
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Rates and Proportions, Number SenseThis interactive slideshow explains the notion of ratios and proportions, how to write the, and how to find them. There are prac...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Grid and Percent It
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Parts of a Whole (Fractions, Decimals & Percent), Professional Development, Rates and Proportions, Number SenseThis lesson begins with a basic visual used in many textbooks: a 10 ? 10 grid as a model for demonstrating percent as "parts per...Contributor: The NSDL Math Common Core CollectionViews: 0Favorites: 0What's My Ratio?
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Professional Development, Rates and Proportions, Number SenseIn this activity, students use linear measurement and calculators to investigate proportionality and determine the constant rati...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Ratios
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Rates and Proportions, Number SenseThis "homework help" lesson introduces students to ratios, ratio language, equivalent ratios, and allows students to practice wi...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Ratio Word Problems
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Rates and Proportions, Number SenseThis lesson begins with a word problem in which students must figure how much money Erica and Tim each earn when they split $480...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Interpreting Proportional Relationships
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Rates and Proportions, Number SenseThis series of activities allows students to experiment to discover proportional relationships This activity has three objective...Contributor: The NSDL Math Common Core CollectionViews: 0Favorites: 0Proportional Reasoning
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Rates and Proportions, Number SenseIn this session, a special kind of functional relationship is explored: the proportional relationship. Students develop proporti...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Ratios
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Measurement & Geometry, Angles & Pythagorean Theorem, Rates and Proportions, Number SenseThis set of instructional materials and problems helps students understand ratios and proportions, starting with a simple review...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Cooking by Numbers
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Current Science, Rates and Proportions, Number SenseIn this activity, students are introduced to real word applications of ratio and proportion through cooking with recipes. Studen...Contributor: The NSDL Math Common Core CollectionViews: 0Favorites: 0Modeling Linear Relationships
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Algebra & Functions, Professional Development, Equations and Inequalities, Coordinate Systems & GraphingIn this lesson, students use data collected comparing height and arm span and create a scatter plot from the bivariate data. In ...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Learning About Ratios: A Sandwich Study
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Rates and Proportions, Number SenseThis lesson introduces students to the concept of ratio through a hands-on, delicious experiment. After an introductory activity...Contributor: The NSDL Math Common Core CollectionViews: 0Favorites: 0Mirror, Mirror
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThe challenge for this Figure This! activity, reviewed for grades 6-8 by Illuminations, is to determine what amount of yourself ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Magic City Math Trail
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Geography, History-Social Science, Geometry, Number SenseBirmingham, Alabama, became known as The Magic City because of its early rapid growth. The math teams of two schools in Hoover...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Leonardo da Vinci
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Measurement & Geometry, Algebra & Functions, GeometryThis is a lesson, reviewed for grades 6-8 by Illuminations, involving the proportions of Leonardo da Vinci s Vitruvian Man. The...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Airborn
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Mathematics, Measurement, Tools, and Data AnalysisThis resource from Teachers Network, reviewed for grades 6-8 by Illuminations, is a mathematics project for students that builds...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Study Art: Golden Rectangle
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, Mathematics, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, CalculusThis page from the Sanford Corporation's art site contains information about the Golden Rectangle, one of many art concepts pres...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Up, Up, and How Far Away?
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Measurement & Geometry, Science, CalculusIn this PBS interactive activity, students estimate the distance between themselves and an airborne hot air balloon. Along the w...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Maytime Measuring
Grades: 2 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Measurement & Geometry, CalculusIn this activity, from the Franklin Institute, students compare the length of a shadow cast by a tree to that of heir own shadow...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Tree Measurement
Grades: 4 to 6Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Mathematics, Measurement, Tools, and Data AnalysisThis activity, from the Math Forum at Drexel University, helps students understand vertical and horizontal measurement of large ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Solve the Puzzle of the Seashell Spiral
Grades: 5 to 9Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityAt this site, part of an online exhibit on the Renaissance from Annenberg Media Learner.org, students will learn about the Fibon...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0