Proportion Playground
About
Topics
- Ratios
- Proportional Reasoning
- Unit Rate
Description
Play with ratios and proportions by designing a necklace, throwing paint balloons, playing billiards, or shopping for apples! Make predictions about proportions before they are revealed.
Sample Learning Goals
- Use a ratio as a descriptive characteristic
- Compare the meaning of a ratio in different contexts
- Use scaling to build proportions or find a missing value in a proportion
- Simplify ratios to build proportions or find a missing value in a proportion
- Use multiplicative reasoning to solve problems
Keywords
For Teachers
Teacher Tips
Overview of sim controls, model simplifications, and insights into student thinking ( PDF ). |
Teacher-Submitted Activities
Title | Authors | Level | Type | ||
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Making Green Paint | Michael Matassa | MS | Discuss Guided |
Translations
Language | Download or Run | Tips | |||
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Basque | All Basque | Proportzio-jolastokia | |||
Danish | All Dansk | Proportions-legeplads | |||
Dutch | All Nederlands | We spelen met verhoudingen | |||
German | All Deutsch | Proportionen Spiel | |||
Greek | All Ελληνικά | Παιχνίδια με αναλογίες | |||
Italian | All italiano | Area giochi Proporzioni | |||
Latvian | All Latviešu | Darbības ar proporcijām | |||
Polish | All polski | Zabawa w proporcje | |||
Portuguese (Brazil) | All português (Brasil) | Parque da Proporção | |||
Spanish | All español | Pista de juego de proporciones |
Related Simulations
Software Requirements
Windows 7+ | Mac OS 10.7+ | iPad and iPad Mini with iOS | Chromebook with Chrome OS |
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Internet Explorer 10+ latest versions of Chrome and Firefox
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Safari 6.1 and up latest versions of Chrome and Firefox
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latest version of Safari
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latest version of Chrome
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Credits
Design Team | Third-party Libraries | Thanks To |
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