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This free interactive tool allows students to create visual representations of ratios using virtual manipulatives. It's especially helpful for ELLs as it provides a visual model that transcends language barriers. Students can experiment with different ratio relationships, which supports conceptual understanding.

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These high-quality, standards-aligned tasks include detailed teaching notes and are available with scaffolding suggestions for ELLs.

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Providing instructional and assessment tasks, lesson plans, and other resources for teachers, assessment writers, and curriculum developers since 2011.

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This interactive digital activity helps students explore proportional relationships through a game-based approach. The visual nature makes it accessible to ELLs, reducing language barriers while building mathematical understanding. The collaborative aspect allows students to learn from peers and supports language development alongside mathematical concepts.

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This Amplify classroom digital activity on ratios and proportions provides an interactive learning experience that supports ELLs through strong visual representations, reducing language barriers while building mathematical understanding. The resource offers multiple entry points for students at different language proficiency levels, allowing them to manipulate mathematical concepts digitally and receive immediate feedback. When paired with strategic grouping, pre-taught vocabulary, and cultural connections to ratio concepts, this activity can help ELLs develop both mathematical reasoning and academic language simultaneously in an engaging, supportive format.

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Khan Academy offers video lessons and practice problems on ratios and rates with subtitles in multiple languages. The videos use visual models and clear explanations that support ELLs. The diverse examples and representation in the videos help students from various backgrounds connect with the material.

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Ratios let us see how two values relate, especially when the values grow or shrink together. From baking recipes to sports, these concepts find their way into our lives on a daily basis.

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Ratios | 6th grade | Math | Khan Academy

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Ratios let us see how two values relate, especially when the values grow or shrink together. From baking recipes to sports, these concepts find their way into our lives on a daily basis.

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These short, animated videos explain ratio concepts using clear visuals and simple language. Available with subtitles in multiple languages, they're ideal for ELLs. I can use these videos as part of a flipped classroom approach, allowing students to preview concepts with language support before in-class application.

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Nothing compares to this excellent movie! Nothing is a quarter as fascinating as this whole movie on ratios!

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YouCubed: A Tour of Mathematical Connections

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YouCubed: A Tour of Mathematical Connections

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YouCubed's "A Tour of Mathematical Connections" resource helps ELLs learn ratio, rate, and proportion concepts through visual representations that transcend language barriers, allowing students to see mathematical relationships without heavy reliance on vocabulary. This approach supports diverse learners by providing multiple entry points to mathematical ideas, creating meaningful contexts for developing academic language, and emphasizing the connections between different mathematical concepts.

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This short tour shows the connected nature of math highlighting number sense, geometry, and algebra, under the big idea of ratio and proportion. Mathematics is NOT a group of unconnected topics, it's like a web of interrelated areas that can be used explain the world around us.

This short tour shows the connected nature of math highlighting number sense, geometry, and algebra, under the big idea of ratio and proportion. Mathematics is NOT a group of unconnected topics, it's like a web of interrelated areas that can be used explain the world around us.

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Tour of Mathematical Connections - YouCubed

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This short tour shows the connected nature of math highlighting number sense, geometry, and algebra, under the big idea of ratio and proportion. Mathematics is NOT a group of unconnected [...]

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Supporting ELLs in Math: Understanding Language

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Supporting ELLs in Math: Understanding Language

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This collection includes lesson exemplars for teaching mathematical concepts to ELLs with detailed language supports. Their ratio unit includes scaffolded worksheets and differentiated instruction guides that I can adapt for various proficiency levels in my classroom.

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The goal of these materials is to illustrate how Common Core aligned math tasks can be used to support math instruction and language development for ELLs at three grade spans (elementary, middle, and high school). We used or adapted tasks from two publicly accessible curriculum projects, Inside Mathematics and Mathematics Assessment Project.

To learn more, see the annotated lessons below and read our Guidelines for Math Instructional Materials Development.

1. Introduction to the Materials describes how the materials were developed, and the types of materials and resources provided.

2. Principles for Math Instruction provide the over-arching principles for teaching mathematics to ELLs.

3. Guidelines for Math Instructional Materials Development can be used to develop new materials or to review already developed materials.

4. "Language of Math" Task Templates are language-focused activities that can be used by teachers to design and write their own language-focused activities. These "Language of Math" tasks were designed to support students in learning to read and understand word problems, communicate about mathematics, and build disciplinary and academic vocabulary, and develop practices in mathematics.

5. Writers, Reviewers, and Contributors handout details the team who led and contributed to the development of these resources.

Additional resources can be found here.
Download all annotated math tasks Download supplementary files A.Pointers to PD Materials 7-2-13.pdf B.Talk Moves 7-2-13.pdf

This fourth grade (elementary school) task provides students opportunities to work with patterns and tables. Students identify whether finite sequences of numbers follow given rules and extend those sequences according to those rules. This task is annotated with suggestions for supporting ELLs, including Mathematically Speaking, a language-focused activity that asks students to solve a problem, explain their reasoning, and discuss how they arrived at their solution while using targeted vocabulary.

MIDDLE SCHOOL TASK-MAKING MATCHSTICKS

This eighth grade (middle school) task provides students opportunities to interpret a situation, represent the variables mathematically, select appropriate mathematical methods, interpret and evaluate the data generated, and communicate their reasoning. Students work with selected formulas to model a situation, interpret given data, make approximations, communicate their reasoning in verbal and written form, and critique solutions developed by others.

This task draws on understandings of rate and proportional reasoning (a CCSS focus of grades 6 and 7), geometric measurement and volume (which begins with right rectangular prisms in grade 5, and is extended in grades 6, 7, and 8), and builds toward the high school number and quantity standard of interpreting units consistently in formulas. Making Matchsticks is part of a Formative Assessment Lesson (FAL), which can be downloaded here: http://map.mathshell.org/materials/lessons.php?gradeid=23.

This task is annotated with suggestions for supporting ELLs, including Mathematically Speaking, a language focused activity that asks students to solve a problem, explain their reasoning, and discuss how they arrived at their solution while using targeted vocabulary.

HIGH SCHOOL TASK-CREATING EQUATIONS

This high school task provides students opportunities to use algebra in different ways: manipulating a given equation, writing equations to represent situations, solving equations, and interpreting solutions of equations in the situations represented.

This task is annotated with suggestions for supporting ELLs, including three language-focused activities: Jigsaw Reading, Reading and Understanding the Problem, and Mathematically Speaking. These activities were designed to support students in learning to read and understand word problems, talk about their reasoning, and discuss their solutions.

HIGH SCHOOL TASK-SIDEWALK PATTERNS

This high school task gives students an opportunity to work with expressions, equations, and functions. The task presents a sequence of three visual patterns created using white and gray blocks, and asks students to write one symbolic expression for the number of each type of blocks. Students build a function modeling a relationship between two quantities, interpret the structure of expressions, and write expressions in equivalent forms to solve problems.

This task is annotated with suggestions for supporting ELLs, including two language-focused activities: Reading and Understanding the Problem, and Mathematically Speaking. These activities were designed to support students in learning to read and understand word problems, talk about their reasoning, and discuss their solutions.

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Supporting ELLs in Mathematics | Understanding Language

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The goal of these materials is to illustrate how Common Core aligned math tasks can be used to support math instruction and language development for ELLs at three grade spans (elementary, middle, and high school). We used or adapted tasks from two publicly accessible curriculum projects, Inside Math…

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If Polar Bears Disappeared by Lily Williams

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If Polar Bears Disappeared by Lily Williams

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This video resource explores the impact of climate change on polar bear populations and their Arctic habitat. It connects to our lesson on rates by examining the declining rate of sea ice formation and how this affects polar bear survival rates. Students can analyze the changing ratios between ice coverage and open water over time, as well as calculate rates of population decline in relation to habitat loss. This provides a real-world application of ratio and rate concepts while raising awareness about environmental issues.

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🐻❄️IF POLAR BEARS DISAPPEARED❄️🐻Winter Nonfiction Read Aloud Book for Kids