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8th grade word problems simulations
Hands On LCM GCF Build It! Least Common Multiple, Greatest Common Factor
Kids will master the concepts of least common multiple and greatest common factor by actually manipulating items into groups. With this fun, hands-on activity, the problems are already created for you!
An answer key is provided. All you need is to print the worksheet and distribute base-ten blocks, Cuisenaire rods, strips of paper, or anything you have handy.
Your students can work in pairs to model the situation and perform the correct operation to perform a hands-on GCF and a hands-on LC
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4th - 8th
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Geometry:Concurrent Points GeoGebra Activity - Circumcenter & Incenter -w/ Key
Tired of teaching the same boring lessons on Circumcenter and Incenter? After years of using the standard book resources, I decided to create this activity that demonstrates some real-life applications of these concurrent points. This product includes 9 tasks (with complete answer key and screen shots of graphics). Each task will ask students to find a real life circumcenter or incenter. (While this product did not include any centroid or orthocenter problems, I left those options on the top
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Carnival Probability Project
A project that feels like a game!
Students must create their own game, using probability to ensure THEY are favored to win....much like the house in a casino. Students can make games involving dice, spinners, cards, "fishing" ducks out of a pond, etc.
Assessed skills include: fundamental counting principal, theoretical probability, experimental probability, independent events, dependent events, creativity, writing, presentation. *Students must already know basic probability to complete this
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8th - 12th
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Real World Simulation Game
This activity puts students through a simulation where they have a job, salary, expenses and events that occur in order to simulate real life. The students must apply the use of percents, decimals, and positive or negative integers since they track their money through a check book register while traveling around a game board, competing against classmates.What is included?-career, fate, and destiny cards-game board-check book register-simulation outline-teacher notes/hints-student cheat sheet-loa
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6th - 8th
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Road Trip-Themed Digital Escape Room for Sales Tax and Money Review
Embark on an exciting virtual road trip with our Digital Escape Room, designed specifically for upper elementary and middle school students to review sales tax and money concepts. This engaging activity is presented in the form of a Google Form, making it easy to integrate into your digital classroom or remote learning setup. Students are only able to progress through the google form and arrive to the "final destination" if they input the correct answers. Product Features:Interactive Google Form
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4th - 8th
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Choose Your Own Math-venture: Zombies (percents)
Choose Your Own Math-venture is a mathematical gamebook where students are faced with a zombie attack, solving equations using percents within an engaging adventure story. As students read, they face decisions that will change the path of the story. Correctly solving equations using their understanding of percents will help them make the best choices. This series of student-selected adventuring can be used to improve engagement, assess understanding, and/or support instruction as a center activi
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Interactive Population Ecology PowerPoint
This PowerPoint covers how scientists predict population size using the Capture-Recapture method.
It's perfect for:
1. Incorporating a little math into a biology class.
2. Showing students how real-life problems can be solved using science.
3. Introducing population prediction calculations when covering ecology.
4. Or, to use as an accompaniment to my "Predicting Population Size" lesson plan in which students capture and mark plastic egg "creatures" to see if math formulas really do work in the
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Simple vs. Compound Interest Investment Project
Bring some real world experience to your classroom with this project that turns your students into investment advisors working for clients to reach a 10 year financial goal. Students must choose from a selection of simple and compound investments to develop a sequence of investments that will maximize client growth or return on investment.
I award bonus points for students who can not only meet the client's goal but also earn 51% growth or higher.
I detail the lesson plan in my video but he
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8th - 11th
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Choose Your Own Math-venture: Zombies, Episode 3 (percents)
Choose Your Own Math-venture is a mathematical gamebook where students are faced with a zombie attack, solving equations using percents within an engaging adventure story. As students read, they face decisions that will change the path of the story. Correctly solving equations using their understanding of percents will help them make the best choices. This series of student-selected adventuring can be used to improve engagement, assess understanding, and/or support instruction as a center activi
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in:Â Choose Your Own Math-venture: Zombies (percents)
Choose Your Own Math-venture: Zombies, Episode 2 (percents)
Choose Your Own Math-venture is a mathematical gamebook where students are faced with a zombie attack, solving equations using percents within an engaging adventure story. As students read, they face decisions that will change the path of the story. Correctly solving equations using their understanding of percents will help them make the best choices. This series of student-selected adventuring can be used to improve engagement, assess understanding, and/or support instruction as a center activi
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in:Â Choose Your Own Math-venture: Zombies (percents)
Choose Your Own Math-venture: Zombies, Episode 1 (percents)
Choose Your Own Math-venture is a mathematical gamebook where students are faced with a zombie attack, solving equations using percents within an engaging adventure story. As students read, they face decisions that will change the path of the story. Correctly solving equations using their understanding of percents will help them make the best choices. This series of student-selected adventuring can be used to improve engagement, assess understanding, and/or support instruction as a center activi
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in:Â Choose Your Own Math-venture: Zombies (percents)
Virtual Stock Market Game
Give your students a taste of Wall Street in this stock market simulation.
With 70 slides of educational entertainment, your students will get lost in the story, the drama and the competitive nature of trading shares.
This is not your average slideshow. Students will develop the Mathematical ability and business savvy to buy and sell shares while working intricately as a team. They will need to think critically, as they consider each of their choices based on an ever changing story line which
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Using Proportions to Estimate Fish Populations Simulation: Capture - Recapture
Show your students how proportional thinking is used by scientists to estimate wildlife populations using a capture - recapture process. In cooperative groups, students will use a lake (paper bag) full of fish (beans) to capture, tag, recapture, and record their findings. They will use their data to write proportions and estimate the total number of fish in the lake. Students will use easy-to-follow instructions on an editable Google Slides presentation and record their data and work on an in
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6th - 9th
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Random Sampling Hands-on Interactive Activity
Let students engage in this hands-on, interactive random sampling activity. With this activity, students willCollect and record dataAnalyze the dataMake comparisons with dataConnect the data to the real-worldThis packet includes a differentiated option for struggling students and an extension activity for accelerated studentsSnack clipart courtesy of Rainbow Physical Therapy
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6th - 8th
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Monty Hall Problem with Fathom Simulation
A guided handout (Word document) and a Fathom Simulation file that introduces students to the famous "Monty Hall Problem" and guides students to the discovery that switching doors is always preferred!
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7th - 12th
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Unit Rate and Percent Project: Duct Tape Pencil Pouch Business Plan
This project asks students to form a fictitious business selling duct tape pencil pouches. Students complete a variety of math problems calculating the cost to produce the pouches, cost of labor, determining profit, setting selling prices, and creating manufacturers suggested retail prices.
What math is involved?
-Finding area of a rectangle (decimal or fraction)
-Finding unit rate and unit price
-Using percent of a number to determine profit/cost
-Decimal and whole number computational skil
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6th - 8th
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Percent Proportions Activity | Real-World Word Problems
Every day students encounter scenarios in which they need to calculate the percentage of a whole or determine how many parts remain. In this activity, students will practice calculating these types of scenarios by setting up a percent proportion. There will be different factors missing in each of the ten scenarios, so students should pay close attention that they are setting up the percent proportions correctly. Once they’ve solved the scenario they will need to relate their answer back to the p
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6th - 9th
Math Customary to Metric Measure Conversion Problem Solving
The most effective means of evaluating student understanding is utilizing real-world applications of assessment through GRASPS. In this GRASPS assessment, students will train a new employee to work at their bakery. In the process they'll convert between units of measure within the Customary System. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please follow me to keep up with my sales, new resources, and freebies on TpT! Just click the ★ next to m
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3rd - 8th
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Save The Mississippi Word Problems
As reliance upon the Mississippi grows, so do environmental pressures, and your students must devise plans to secure the river’s future. Students run a fictional conservation group, identify ecological problems facing the Mississippi, calculate costs involved in proposed conservation projects, explain their mathematical thinking, and create an educational flier with the goal of encouraging donations and participation in conservation.
Save The Mississippi addresses the following Mathematics and
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6th - 8th
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Order of Operations Escape Room Activity
This order of operations escape room activity is a fun way to review mixed number operations and conversions! It corresponds with 5th and 6th grade common core standards but it can be used with many grade levels.It would be a great review or test prep for a unit on the order of operations, or for sub plans. This activity can be done individually or in groups. There is minimal prep work and an answer key is included. It could definitely be sent to students to do at home during distance learning,
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4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Math Escape Room Bundle
Exponential Decay
This engaging activity helps students visualize the concept of exponential decay. Through a zombie apocalypse simulation, students collect and record data. The data is then graphed and compared to linear data. Finally, the equation for exponential decay is shared and students are given a some real life scenarios to apply the formula and concept to.
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8th - 10th
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Design an A Frame House
A project for any student who has learned triangle trigonometry. Students design an A frame house to certain specifications and within a certain budget. Costs for various aspects of the home are given. Students must calculate floor space, framing, roofing, foundation size, etc. This project makes a good multiple day homework assignment. It is recommended that the teacher go over problems in class that relate to the specific tasks needed to complete this project.
The project could be done by
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7th - 12th
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Using Variables in Math- Special Education
This activity is designed for the visual needs of special education students. The pictures relate to Georgia but can be used in other states. There are pictures, numbers, word problems, and 3 leveled worksheets Low, Medium, High. We use this in centers, as whole group, small group etc. The concept is using variables in math at its most simplistic level. This an editable powerpoint.
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2nd - 8th
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Volume of Rectangular Prisms Hands on Activity
This hands on activity is student centered and student led and allows the students to investigate and discover volume of rectangular prisms. For this activity, the students can use snap cubes to complete the project. There is a hint on the bottom of the project to help the students complete it. For this project, the teacher is just there to facilitate and give leading questions. The students can work in teams and arrive at the correct answer in many ways.
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6th - 9th
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