The purpose of this study was to investigate the benefits of teaching concepts of density, mole, molarity, and velocity through proportional reasoning strategies. The experimental group consisted of 31 9th-grade students enrolled in a junior high school in Pingtung County in South Taiwan. Their understanding of the above concepts was compared with that of a control group, which consisted of 32 9th-grade students in the same school. The results of the analysis of covariance revealed that the experimental group outperformed the control group on an instrument documenting respondents' understanding of concepts of density, mole, molarity, and velocity. In the pre-test, most students in the two groups based their explanations concerning the concepts of ratio primarily on their intuition. In the post-test, however, students in the experimental group were more capable of explaining their thoughts by using proportional reasoning strategies than their counterparts. Additional statistical analysis and interview data indicated that the experimental group students had a better understanding of the above mentioned concepts after receiving proportional reasoning training. This result indicates that the experimental group's understanding of the concepts of density, mole, molarity, and velocity was enhanced by learning to solve problems through proportional reasoning strategies.