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5th grade applied math projects for Microsoft Word
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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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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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
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
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
Road Trip Maths Open Ended, Real Life Extension Project (Addition & Mapping)
Do you want to deliver maths lessons that are based on real-life, engaging material but also in a scaffolded, guided and strategic way that ensures students have enough direction to learn?
This project enables students to plan their dream road trip around any country - the US or elsewhere around the world. They only need access to a scaled map (provided for the US and Australia) and the internet (basic searches like Google to look up activities and hotel costs). If students don't have access t
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4th - 7th
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Baseball Math Project Based Learning (PBL) for place value and subtraction
This project based learning unit gives students a real world math experience. Students are tasked with creating a baseball stadium for their town and will practice addition, subtraction, reading, writing, and comparing large numbers, rounding,and problem solving.4.NBT.24.NBT.34.NBT.4Included: Entry Document from the Mayor, Know/Need to Know List Template, Expenses/Budget Tracker, Team Contract, Student Checklist, Feedback Form, Kid Checks, Pre-ordered tickets, Memo from the MayorAll pages are
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3rd - 5th
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My Lego House
This is a 2-3 week maths project for anyone from Grade 3-6. Done in pairs or small groups the project entails students designing and building their own Lego house. In the project students will cover a range of maths concepts including area, perimeter, counting, money, graphing and interpreting data. The project includes a detailed teacher booklet with photographs of student's work and examples for each of the lessons. The student book is also included for students to work from, although we found
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3rd - 6th
DILATIONS Drawing Assignment
Are you working through Dilations and looking for a FUN art project for your students? This allows ALL your students to become an artist! Students have fun picking their own cartoon and recreating their larger dilated image. All students become ARTISTS in this activity!!!! This really made students connect to what a dilation was. We also get them talking about vocabulary, such as scale.
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4th - 11th
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Real Life Math: Shopping For Clothes
Teaching Life Skills as part of your curriculum. Real Life Math provides great opportunities to teach students about real lifes situation where they will use basic math skills. This activity centers around online shopping for Fall and Winter Clothing. Directions; lists of clothing needs; and order form are included.
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5th - 12th
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Real World Integer Operations Project
This activity has 3 parts:Part 1 gives students real-world problems that involve integers. An incorrect answer has been identified. Students must determine how the incorrect answer was calculated, and explain the mistake or misconception. Part 2 asks students to correctly solve the problemsPart 3 challenges students to solve multi-step integer operations problems from real-world scenarios. I have used this activity in two different ways:As a major grade/end of the unit project for all students (
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5th - 7th
Checkbook System/Economy System
Checkbook Register/Economy System- This product is a complete economy system for grades 6-8. It could also be used for adults learning practical Math and could easily be adapted for lower grades. It would be a wonderful tool for adult education to teach life skills and practical application math. It incorporates computation skills with basic math. This system would also work well in an elementary classroom. I used monopoly money which can be downloaded for free and handed out as rewards- but i
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3rd - 9th, Adult Education
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Math Project - Scavenger Hunt Scrapbook
This is a math project designed to educate students on the math that surrounds them on a daily basis. This project includes student instructions and a teacher grade sheet. This is an easy project to grade, but packed with student enlightenment. Great project for the beginning of new school year in any math class. This math project is suited for upper elementary (4th, 5th, 6th), middle school (7th, 8th), and early high school (9th, and 10th). This project could be adapted for younger and ol
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4th - 10th
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Build Your Own Farm Project
The Build Your Own Farm Project is a great culminating activity for an animal science unit or class. Students are given a budget, and they build the farm of their dreams. This project allows them to take what they have learned about livestock breeds and bring some real life money management in a fun way.
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4th - 12th
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Garden Planter Mini Research Project
This short task guides students through a research project to determine what types of planters should be used in a school garden. This is a good introductory activity for students learning about research, and makes a good start for a school garden project.
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4th - 8th
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Multiplication and Division Project: I Want To Be a Fashion Designer
This is an adapted version of my other Multiplication and Division project for 3rd graders. This version includes one digit multiplication and division problems in a real-life situation of being a start-up fashion designer. Students will work through several tasks that can be easily differentiated by changing numbers or limiting how many tasks students are completing. This should take about 1-2 weeks for students to complete as an enrichment activity or working through it as a class.
Multipl
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3rd - 5th
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Classroom Measurement & Design Project - Problem Based Learning
This problem based learning project was created for my 3rd – 5th graders to apply their knowledge of measurement to a real life situation, but also extends to practice and review skills for grades 2-8. This activity can be done in steps throughout the year or as a full project over several days if needed. It is also an editable document so you can edit the elements to fit your specific classroom if you want to make it specific for your classroom. Includes: · Project Description (1 page)· Projec
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2nd - 8th
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Plan Your Trip (Math Project)
I created this very extensive project for my excelling math students who were getting their work done very quickly. You will come to notice this when you open the docs that steps such as using AAA to track the cost of the trip or converting currency from USD to the country in which they choose to travel. I often get the question "Will we use this when we're adults?" when working on assignments in class. That sparked me to want to challenge the students to work on real-life projects and apply som
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5th
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Prepare Your Holiday Meal PBL
This is a project based learning activity created for 5th and 6th grade. It may be used for other grades as well. This activity allows students to plan a holiday dinner. They have to choose the items they are going to prepare, determine what ingredients are needed and then calculate how much of each ingredient they will need to purchase. They will have to create a shopping list as well as determine how long it will take to cook each item, including the turkey. This is very similar to my Than
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5th - 6th
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Project: design chance spinners (editable) - AC Year 5 Maths - Stats/Prob
DescriptionThis task requires that students design and make paper chance spinners from a list of possible designs, then calculate the theoretical probability of each outcome as a fraction and probability word. This is suitable for the teaching and learning of Australian Curriculum Year 5 Mathematics (Probability and Statistics).Buying this task will save you around 1 hour of time creating it.This is the editable version, allowing you to change and modify the task as you like it. Please respect m
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4th - 6th
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Managing a Household - Renting an Apartment project
For this project the students are required to pretend they are looking for an apartment to rent.
The project is broken up into 3 parts:
During the first part they are required to choose an apartment in the local newspaper or apartment listing book or website. They must than determine how much money they are required to earn at their job so that they can live in this apartment.
During the second part, they are given a specific salary and told they need to find an apartment affordable under th
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5th - 10th
Let's Plan a Vacation
Your students are going to plan a vacation for their family. First, they need to pick a destination. They will choose from Disney World in Orlando, Florida where they can enjoy the thrill of an amusement park or choose the mighty Grand Canyon in St. George, Utah where they can see camp, hike and enjoy one of the 7 natural wonders of the world.
In this highly motivational math project the students will figure gas mileage and cost. They will also calculate hotel, food and entertainment costs and c
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3rd - 6th
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Tic-Tac-Toe Geometry Project
This is a diverse project for a geometry unit. Students get to choose 3 projects they can do. It gives them options and can choose what they will enjoy doing the most. I give students this project at the beginning of a unit and it is due right before the unit test.A grading rubric is attached to easily grade their assignment which is in any easy to grade rubric format worth 100 points.Includes: Tic-tac-toe board, student/teacher/parent contract, scoring and grading rubric and instructions/rul
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Pet Rescue Math Enrichment Project
This is a 16 page project for math enrichment. Students are asked to start up their own dog or cat pet rescue. They will need to know area and perimeter to design their rescue. They will need to research costs of several items and then add and multiply to find a budget. Students will also need to research fundraising ideas and fit the fundraising into their monthly budget in order to run the rescue for one full year. Students will also be asked their input on who and how they will run the d
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2nd - 7th
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