Ratio, Rate, Proportion

Recommended Practice: Develop understanding of proportional relationships before teaching computational procedures.

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Developing Proportional Reasoning

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This multimedia overview offers an introduction to students’ development of proportional thinking and its relationship to cross-multiplication. It describes recommended instructional strategies for...

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Ratio, Rate, Proportion Problems

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Dr. Lewis demonstrates how to work through two examples of problems involving ratios. Related Files: Ratio, Rate, and Proportion Problems (Sample Material)

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Learning to Think Proportionally

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Dr. James Lewis discusses what it means to think proportionally and offers examples from everyday contexts. He describes the conceptual progression toward working with cross-multiplication and...

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Understanding Ratios

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This development session for teachers and coaches demonstrates strategies for teaching ratio, rate, and proportion concepts. Follow the full session through the PowerPoint, Focus on Ratios, and the...

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Cross-Multiply? Not So Fast

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Eighth-grade co-teachers lead a class through activities involving ratios. Students use concrete materials, build-up strategies, and cross-multiplication to solve the real-world problems found in...

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Ratio, Rate, and Proportion Problems

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This collection of twelve ratio, rate, and proportion problems was contributed by expert Dr. Jim Lewis and includes his comments on solutions and notes about the potential difficulties students may...

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Sample Material

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Ratio Problems

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Participants in the Understanding Ratios development session worked with this set of problems to strengthen their conceptual understandings. See Focus on Ratios for additional background. Related...

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Sample Material

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Focus on Ratios

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This PowerPoint outlines the content of a development session for math coaches and teachers on teaching ratios, rates, and proportions. Understanding Ratios shows a portion of the workshop in which...

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Sample Material

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Build a Cafe: PowerPoint and Report

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As seen in Cross-Multiply? Not So Fast, this PowerPoint presents a series of real-world problems that students need to solve using their knowledge of ratios. Related Media and...

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Sample Material

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Build-Up Strategies Worksheet

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This worksheet provides practice problems that encourage students to use build-up strategies when working on ratio problems as shown in Cross-Multiply? Not So Fast. Related Media and...

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Sample Material

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Ratio: Warm Up Activity

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Students use counters or blocks to work out their responses to three problems and then represent their answers as shown in Cross-Multiply? Not So Fast. Related Media and Files: Cross-Multiply?...

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Sample Material

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Planning for Real-World Problems for Ratio, Rate, Proportion

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This planning tool helps middle-grade teachers develop practice problems based in real-world contexts that require students to work with ratios, rates, and proportions. Related Media and...

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