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8th grade decimals research
Simple Interest - Financing a Vehicle Poster Project
Aligned to TEKS 7.13(E) calculate and compare simple interest and compound interest earnings CCSS.7.RP.A.3Your students are ready for this STEM challenge! First, they search the internet for a vehicle they wish to "purchase." Then they use the question prompts to record the make, model and purchase price. They choose a financing option from the table and use their purchase price to calculate tax, interest and monthly payment. Last, students use all of these calculations to design a poster to ill
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Simple Interest - Notes and Project Mini Bundle
Design a Drive-Through Zoo: End of Year Math Project PBL
About this resource:Your students are ready for this STEM challenge! They will design a zoo that people can drive through, and it must include 12 different kinds of lines, angles and shapes. Students will love to choose their 5 featured animals, then research each animals' space, safety and vegetation requirements. They will create a map of their zoo, then an advertisement to announce its opening. Last, students will present their zoo using a script that helps with grading criteria. What's inclu
Rates and Unit Rates - Create tables, graphs and charts math project - PBL
About this resource:Combine fitness with rates and unit rates in this fun math project! Students will collaborate with a partner to count the number of times they can perform three different fitness tasks. Then they will use their data to create equivalent ratio tables and use the table to graph the data. Last, students will use sentence stems to write an 8-sentence reflection of learning.What's included?Google Slides™ version3 column analytic rubricproject organized by 6 separate tasksgraphic o
Million Dollar Project (Graphing, decimals, fractions, accounting and percents)
What would you do with a million dollars? How would you spend it?
In this project you've been left a 1 million dollar inheritance. The catch is you must first research and present how you will spend the money.
In the first part of the experiment, the students will fill out an accounting chart, where they will fill out an itemized chart displaying each item they plan on purchasing to complete their million dollar project. They will than be asked to put all those items into major categorie
Design A Zoo
This is a cross-curricular, project-based study of area, perimeter, volume, surface area and more. With real-life applications of design, research and cost analysis, your students will dive-in and get lost in their zoo! This resource is broken into three stages, and can be used in pieces as needed.Stage 1 focus: area and perimeterStage 2 focus: volumeStage 3 focus: surface area, multi-digit decimals, fractions and percentagesSum It Up focus: Focused questions that will assess if your student is
Classroom Stockmarket Challenge Project
This project is a real-life example of using percent of change and graphing. The beauty of this project is that it can be done with computers if available or just paper and pencil. It can be used to teach percent of change, graphing, interpretation of data, finance and business. The project can be used as a blank day (at end of unit) or end of year project. I have used it with 7th grade Advanced Math and 8th graders in Pre-Algebra.Other Projects you may be interested in:Circle Graphs using a Spo
Out to Eat Decimal Project
This is a simple project, but it adds in real life scenario of what the cost is going out to eat. Students end up shocked at the cost of going out to eat! The students pick out a restaurant of their choice (can download the menu offline), "go out to eat" with three other family members, order, determine cost, sales tax and tip for a total of going out to eat for 4 people. This could be a group project with four students going out to eat and seeing what the cost is for each. Either way, it sh
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5th - 8th
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Canadian Grocery Trip Project PBL & Financial Literacy Printable and Easel
Project based learning meets financial literacy! The Canadian Grocery Trip Project and meal planner covers both curriculum expectations and life skills. Adding and subtracting decimals to the hundredths and healthy living expectations covered. ⏰ 3-5 math classes for most students grades 5-8. Have students use their own flyers or let them search online flyers to get the discounts they are looking for. Grocery shopping on a budget! Engage your students with a financial literacy project that gives
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5th - 8th
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Million Dollars from Aunt Matilda
This project is a basic covering of financial literacy, that allows students to explore purchases of their choice within limits. It is a lot of fun. My students love getting to research and dream about their futures. To do thouroughly, it should be done for about 2 weeks, but can be changed a bit to cover a shorter period of time. Students research careers leading to their choice college, purchase a vehicle, go on a dream vacation, buy a house, make a charitable donation, and invest in their f
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4th - 8th
Project Based Learning: Decimals, Percents and Sales Tax- Plan a Road Trip
Included: Step by step slideshow (google slide and powerpoint)Step by step student instruction docTeacher Resource TE with assignment break down and FAQ’sStudent exampleThis assignment is a great way for students to learn real world skills such as researching trips, gas prices, hotel prices and tax! The assignment is loosely based on Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief. In the book Percy and his friends travel to LA from NYC. In this assignment the students must plan a trip going back. However
Planning a Vacation Project - Authentic Task
Planning a vacation Project is a partner research project perfect for the end of the year! Students research a location (either chosen by them or given by you), and they follow the outline provided. Students will research the costs for transportation, meals, accommodations, sight-seeing, and any other incidental. Make it even better by giving the students a budget, the manner in which they will get to their destination, or how long their trip will be. Math is integrated by asking the students to
Percent: I Need To Save $ Because My Parents Don't Trust Me to Make Good Choices
7.RP.3 Use proportional relationships to solve multi-step ratio and percent problems.
According Common Core Standards for the 7th grade math curriculum, students need to be able to understand simple interest, tax, mark-ups, mark-downs, gratuities, commissions, fees, percent increase, percent decrease, and percent error. These skills relate very well and easily to real life scenarios! I like designing projects in which students solve problems they may be faced with in the near future. Having to
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6th - 8th
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Life Project Power Point
I do this on Google Slides and share it with the class via Google Classroom. If you do not use Classroom, you can still upload to your Google Drive, share a view only link with the kids, and have them click "file" then "make a copy" so that they have their own copy. I usually introduce one slide a day on a class example slide. This project involves the kids finding out what possible careers they are interested in and good at, and then researching salary, prices of cars, homes or apartments, util
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4th - 8th
Math: Scope and Sequence for Fraction and Decimal Instruction
Understand why it is important to teach as the patterns present themselves in math.
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PreK - 8th
Grocery Shopping and Unit Price!
In this assignment, students will be looking up prices from different groceries stores online and also finding the unit price for each item. Key things they will learn is pricing on everyday items they will buy in the future and how to shop more effectively.
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6th - 8th
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Decimal Reading
Incorporate decimals with reading. Have students listen or read about Jesse Owens and see the importance of decimal places.
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4th - 8th
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