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Middle school 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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Decimals Project based learning Monster Ice Cream Parlor
Welcome to The Monster Ice Cream Parlor Decimal focused project-based learning! In this student-tested and approved project, students jump into ownership of the monster ice cream parlor. They create flavors, set prices, and graph their sales all while practicing adding, subtracting and multiplying decimals, and graphing. Included in this ready to use project:- Student pages for building a monster ice cream parlor- Student pages for calculating revenue- Student pages for graphing revenue and s
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4th - 6th
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Also included in:Â 6th grade math MEGA resource bundle
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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Customary and Metric Measurement Conversions Escape Room
This customary and metric measurement conversions escape room is a fun way to review conversions in your classroom! It corresponds with the 5th grade common core standard 5.MD.A.1, but it can be used with many grade levels. Customary and metric length, capacity, and mass are all addressed in this activity. It would be a great review for a unit on measurement. 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
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4th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Math Escape Room Bundle
Operations with Mixed Numbers Fraction Escape Room Activity
My Operations With Mixed Numbers Fraction Escape Room Activity is a fun way to review mixed number operations and conversions! Your students will practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing mixed numbers. 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 mixed numbers, or for sub plans. This activity can be done individually or in groups. There is minimal prep work and an answer
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4th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Math Escape Room Bundle
Multiply & Divide Fractions Escape Challenge Game - 3 Levels!
Looking for a way to practice challenging word problems about Multiplying and Dividing Fractions? Upper elementary students LOVE escape room games! This challenge includes 3 levels of challenge for the fifth grade Number and Operations: Fractions standards that relate to multiplying and dividing fractions. This allows you to differentiate instruction effortlessly, AND allows students at all levels to be successful. It's the perfect complement to your Guided Math Workshop! Students will push them
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4th - 6th
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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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Black Friday
Thanksgiving: Black Friday: Students will read a passage and answer questions about the history of Black Friday. They will also use ads to budget and choose the best deals. They will be given three Christmas lists with a budget of $400. Students must find the best deals among three department stores. The goal is to not exceed the budget of $400. Finally, students will answer word problems based off of their Black Friday deals. Students will be required to use the four math operations for th
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3rd - 6th
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Choose Your Own Math-venture: Superhero (order of operations)
Choose Your Own Math-venture is a mathematical gamebook where students are transformed into superheroes, solving equations using order of operations 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 order of operations will help them make the best choices. This series of student-selected adventuring can be used to improve engagement, assess understanding, and/or support instru
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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
5th - 7th Grade Math Multi-Step Word Problems Using Money and Rate Activity
Have fun when working on multi step word problems using money and rate in this Math Mystery / Escape Room! Solve the crime of who stole the jeweled Crown through a series of clues to solve using our math skills. The problems are multistep and involve all different operation and has a focus on money and unit rate, sales tax, area, miles per hour and more. 7 complex multistep problems make up this escape room task. Can you solve the crime? Ideal for 40 minute periods. Great for sub plans, RTI,
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5th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Middle School Math GROWING Bundle {6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade}
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: Superhero, Episode 3 (Order of Operations)
Choose Your Own Math-venture is a mathematical gamebook where students are transformed into superheroes, solving equations using order of operations 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 order of operations will help them make the best choices. This series of student-selected adventuring can be used to improve engagement, assess understanding, and/or support instru
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in:Â Choose Your Own Math-venture: Superhero (order of operations)
Choose Your Own Math-venture: Superhero, Episode 2 (Order of Operations)
Choose Your Own Math-venture is a mathematical gamebook where students are transformed into superheroes, solving equations using order of operations 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 order of operations will help them make the best choices. This series of student-selected adventuring can be used to improve engagement, assess understanding, and/or support instru
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in:Â Choose Your Own Math-venture: Superhero (order of operations)
Choose Your Own Math-venture: Superhero, Episode 4 (Order of Operations)
Choose Your Own Math-venture is a mathematical gamebook where students are transformed into superheroes, solving equations using order of operations 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 order of operations will help them make the best choices. This series of student-selected adventuring can be used to improve engagement, assess understanding, and/or support instru
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in:Â Choose Your Own Math-venture: Superhero (order of operations)
Perimeter and Area Real World Task
This task asks students to pretend they have been hired by a home improvement company to solve two problems for them. The first job requires students to examine the relationship between perimeter and area to help "Mr. Baker" design his garden. The second job focuses students on applying their understanding of area to help a family tile their kitchen. Let me know if you like it and I will upload some more tasks.
Task by Shawn Walk
Perimeter and Area Real World Task by Shawn Walk is licensed u
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4th - 6th
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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
Cooking with Fractions
Fun performance task for 5th graders. Real world scenarios prompt students to determine how they are going to adjust a recipe and then multiply to find the new recipe. This task is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and multiplying fractions.
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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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Grades:
6th - 9th
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