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Middle school applied math resources for Microsoft Word
Dream Vacation Math and Finance Project - Can Be Used For Distance Learning!
This project provides the opportunity for students to apply the Common Core practice of mathematical modeling to plan their own dream vacations, including choosing transportation, accommodations, food, and activities. It helps them learn to develop a budget, research various trip alternatives, and present the information to their classmates. It's amazing how quickly students realize that a limo to the airport, first class airplane ticket, 4-star hotel, and upscale restaurants may not quite be as
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6th - 12th
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Penny Boat Lab: Density, Buoyancy and Archimedes
This is a one period activity/lab to teach students about the concept of density and Archimedes Principle, why things float. Students each get a piece of aluminum foil and design and make a boat. They then must calculate how many pennies it will carry before sinking, and then test it. This is an excellent one day STEM project that combines science, math, design and construction. Students will use the formula Density=Mass divided by Volume.
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7th - 10th
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STEM Kid Engineering for GATE -- FERRIS WHEELS plus Primary Sources
In this GATE engineering journey, students will each construct a very cool Ferris wheel prototype as a final product. Along the way, they will examine primary source images, read primary source history, and integrate math, engineering, and economics in a learning process which incorporates best practices in gifted and talented education for 21st Century Learners.
This is a challenging engineering project—teacher guided. I used it for GATE 4th grade; however, my kids are experienced builders.
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
SPIES! A GATE Adventure 18+ Contact Hours - Challenging and Engaging!
Your students will ask to stay in from recess for this. It is the most popular unit I've taught in 32 years, and it is packed with challenging critical thinking.We imagine students are training at the school for spies: mini survivor challenges, mini crossbows, a jewel heist, footprint mysteries, memory games, cipher disks, case files, messages hidden in gel caps. This unit is STEM and critical thinking at its coolest and finest, and we’ve thrown in reading, speaking and listening, and a social-
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4th - 7th
Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
Personal Finance Lessons - 21 Lessons with Activities and PPT Bundle
Give your students one of the most important skills to live a secure and happy life: personal finance. From budgeting to owning a car, this 21 lesson download is a great activity to incorporate into your curriculum. These crucial lessons may mean the difference between prosperity and poverty. Each Lesson Includes:- Lesson Plan- PPT overview ( 2 slides)- Teacher guide- Handouts- 3 situations to go over with the students- Bonus: Dave Ramsey clip to share with the studentsWhat's Included in This 80
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5th - 12th
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Paychecks- Calculation of Hourly Wages, Overtime, Salaries, and Commission
Paychecks- Calculation of Hourly Wages, Overtime, Salaries, and Commission This activity worksheet is an excellent, quick/simple tool to use to teach students how to calculate hourly wage, overtime pay, salary pay, and commission. The activity is broken into 4 sections- one for each form of payment. Each form of payment includes a detailed explanation, formula, example, and problems for students to try. This is a no prep activity for when you just want to briefly introduce the items and not spen
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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8th Grade Math - END OF YEAR PROJECT (EDITABLE!)
This is a great way to wrap up the year with an 8th grade math class! Students create a fun Review Book that asks them to summarize everything they've learned... while using lots of color and flexing their creativity! * TEACH MULTIPLE SUBJECTS? Check out these other End-of-Year Projects:Bundle of 6th, 7th & 8th Grade Math ($8 discount!)7th Grade Math6th Grade Math ALL of the Common Core 8th Grade math standards are covered! The packet attached starts with clear, page-by-page directions for t
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8th
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Also included in: Middle School Math - End of Year Project BUNDLE!
Percent of Change, Tax, Tip, Discount - Shopping Project
This fun project on consumer topics originally created to be used as a "holiday shopping project". It has now been made generic for any time of the year, but is easily customizable. It is a great way to assess a unit over percent proportions.
Students use the percent proportion to calculate discounts, taxes, tips, percent off, and original prices. Students create a final product which can be displayed. A rubric is included. Tax rates in the Katy, TX area are utilized but can be customized
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5th - 10th
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Similar Figures and Scale Factor Interactive Notebook Page & Practice Problems
This is an interactive notebook page that I used to introduce similar figures to my 7th grade math class and to review similar figures with my 8th grade math class. It also includes practice problems so that students can practice what they have learned.
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6th - 8th
STEAM Kid Engineering -- The Playable Golf Course Design Unit for GATE
In this unit, students will build a contraption to hit a small, wooden golf ball through a scaled version of a golf course which they and their classmates have designed. They’ll make a trundle wheel for measuring and marking the course, write down their scores on a scorecard, design putters, and learn background in physics through their work in the engineering and design process.
The Playable Golf Course is not just fun. It’s a challenging engineering, design, and construction unit including
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
STEM: Bridge Building Rubric
This rubric is useful for any bridge building project (toothpick, popsicle stick, pasta, etc)We used this rubric for an 8th grade STEM class where students worked in partners to design and build a pasta bridgeCan be adjusted to meet the needs of your project
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4th - 12th
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HotWheels Speed Lab with a Distance Time Graph
This is a fun lab to experiment with speed! Supplies needed per group include: make-shift ramp, masking tape, 3 stop watches, meter-stick, hot wheels car and this lab sheet. Students will mark of one, two and three meters with the tape. Three students with stop-watches will stand at each of those meters. Groups will count down and as another student releases their car down the ramp, all stop watches should start their time simultaneously with the release of the car. Each student will stop their
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5th - 7th
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TI-84 Graphing Calculator Scavenger Hunt
This resource contains 10 multi-part questions (with directions for each step) that introduce the TI-84 Graphing Calculator and its basic functions to students. Uploaded as a Word Doc so you can customize as-needed for your students.Includes examples that require students to learn how to input fractions, change between fractions and decimals, use exponents, perform operations with negative numbers, and other basic functions needed to operate their calculator. Step-by-step guidance is provided so
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6th - 12th
Physical properties of matter review using pennies Mass, Volume, and Density Lab
Physical properties of matter review using pennies to find mass, density, and volume.
Supplies
You will need many pennies for this lab
15 each of 1981 and older ones and 1983 and newer ones per group.
Triple balance beam per group or a central few
Small graduated cylinder approximately 50mL
I did this with my 6th grade science class, it give them a hands on comparison that density is different from volume and that density of the same materials stays the same no matter the weight.
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6th - 12th
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T-Shirt Entrepreneurs PROJECT BASED LEARNING Math Economics GATE 4-8th
Your students will be excited for this “gold medal standard” project-based math, design, and economics activity. It’s appropriate and adaptable for 4th – 8th grade. It has been a staple for my 4th grade gifted and talented math group since 2013.You won’t be the sage on the stage. Students will problem-solve their way through the project working in collaborative teams, and the teacher will guide, be a resource, spur discussion, play devil’s advocate, and provide mini lessons when necessary.In
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class BUNDLE - Math Focus Hours of Hands-on Projects GATE Gifted
Linear Equations: Water Park Project
In this high interest, extensive assignment, students are given a three part project broken into daily tasks. The project is designed to assess the students profieciency with linear equations. They must design a water park on a coordinate plane, identify points, calculate slope, write equations, solve for midpoint, use the distance formula, and explain their results in a reflection paper.
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7th - 12th
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STEM Kid Engineering and Construction -- Hoop and Launcher Game GATE
Kid-built in a few hours . . . this 7 inch tall basketball hoop can be assembled and re-assembled. We’re not going to toss a ball to make baskets with this project. Oh, no . . . we are making a little catapult to launch marshmallows at the hoop! Oh, yes! Sweet!
Use this building project as a challenging independent study for upper elementary, as a whole-class engineering project, or use it to make math and science applications like percentages, measurements and geometry, action/reaction, tr
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3rd - 6th
Sales Tax, Discount, and Tip Dinner Menu/Receipt Activity
I have used this assignment with my students to show them how a bill is calculated when you go out to dinner and to reinforce sales tax, discounts, and tip.We call this the RESTAURANT WEEK PROJECT. It is editable. You can either get menus from a local restaurant or schedule time for your students to go to the computer lab to look up a menu. Have them get into groups (3-4 students). They will decide on two appetizers to share and each student will pick out their dinner and dessert. Given the d
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5th - 8th
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Pythagorean Theorem Amazing Race QR Code Activity
This file includes 25 thought provoking questions involving Pythagorean Theorem. These questions are asked in a wide variety of ways. You will be downloading a word file so you can type or write locations around your school for the students to go on their amazing race. Print them on white card stock, cut and post!
This file includes an answer key, student answer sheet, and work page.
Send your students on an Amazing Race with an iPad or iPhone! All they need is the free app called QR Reader to
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7th - 10th
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Charts and Graphs for Middle School
Included are thiry-eight graphs, charts, maps, flowcharts, tables and other graphics. These are real data maps taken from the Internet (all sources noted). Under each graphic are five questions that can be answered by using the information provided. The questions range from titles, mean, meadian, to create your own graph.
The pages can be copied back to back to make a workbook. I use this workbook as bellwork while I am taking attendance. Everyday the students answer the question. (I requi
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6th - 9th
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Design a Room Floorplan Project | Scale Factors, Surface Area | PBL
Students will get so engaged with this project because they get to personalize it!Objective: Students will get a chance to solve an authentic design and budget problem using their knowledge of scale diagrams and surface area. Students develop their financial literacy and communication skills too!Concepts: Scale Diagrams, Surface Area, Financial Literacy, Problem SolvingGrade Level: 8-11What is Included:Student instructions and worksheet including a detailed shopping list for furniture and paint
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6th - 11th
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Fractions Review for High School Students with answer key (Editable)
No matter what course I teach at the high school level, it seems students need a review of how to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and compare fractions. This worksheet has a summary of each operation with examples. It includes fraction problems such as a/b + c/d for advanced or accelerated students as well.
The preview pdf shows what the word file looks like; the product file is a word document, which you may edit to your liking.
Keywords: fractions, operations, add, subtract, multiply, div
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7th - 12th
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STEAM -- Snap n' Shoot Marshmallow Soccer Game
Kid-built in a few hours . . . this goalie, net and goal, and cool marshmallow “snapper” is a complete kid-built soccer game. We don’t have to use our imagination here! Our snapper really shoots the marshmallow ball, and our goalies really defend.
Use this building project as a challenging independent study for upper elementary, as a whole-class engineering project, or use it to make math and science applications like percentages, measurements and geometry, action/reaction, trajectory, etc.
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: KID CREATED GAMES Standards-based STEM and Math Games Bundle
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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