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8th grade decimals simulations
The Game of Life | Math Exploration
PURPOSE: This simulation gives your math class a chance to experience what it is like to be an adult. Students will be randomly assigned a job and a family and be required to calculate a month’s worth of expenses.This activity brings up some great discussions about how money works, what happens when the money runs out, single parenting, managing a budget and so much more. This is such a useful resource for the modern middle school mathematics teacher!WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product contains:✏️ 18 p
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5th - 8th
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Real Life Math: Percents: Credit Card Debt Worksheet - Scenario # 2
The scenario on this chart is as follows:
"MasterCard sent you a fabulous new credit card offer in the mail. It is a special card for teens with really low minimum monthly payment percent of 4%. In exchange for the low minimum monthly payment percent, MasterCard raised your APR to 18%. You decide to use this credit card instead of the Visa in Scenario #1. Fill out the chart and determine the amount of money you spent and your remaining balance. "
The chart is a great way for students to di
Grades:
7th - 10th
Checkbook Activity - Real Life Examples, Decimals
Trying to make math more meaningful for your students or give them a glimpse into using math in day to day life? This activity simulates having a checking account and all of the factors that contribute to the amount of money a person has.
The download of this activities includes:
-Directions for carrying out the activity
-Account ledgers (similar to what a checkbook ledger looks like)
-Activity cards (over 90 cards including starting balance, pay day, life activities)
This activity shows stud
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4th - 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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StockUp - A Stock Market project for the Maths classroom
StockUp - A Stock Market project for the Maths classroomIn this challenge students are given $1000 to invest in the stock exchange. They combine with other students to create an investment group. Individually and as a group they will then track this investment over the term or year.I do this every year with my Math class and it is often a highlight of the year for students. They learn lots about investments and money markets along the way.Great for understanding decimal numbers and percentages a
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4th - 8th
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The Ultimate Basketball Learning Activity & Game - Data Management & Probability
DATA MANAGEMENT AND BASKETBALL!Can be used as a performance task for Data Management and Number Sense and Numeration! Want an exciting and fun activity to get students interested in Data Management? This is the resource for you! Combining competitive gameplay, exciting research, and fun this activity is a surefire way to get your class interested in Data Management. You'll create player profiles and using experimental probability determine the outcome of basketball games played between your
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Math Role-Playing Game (Trip Planners): Travel Cards 1-20
Trip Planners is a role-playing game that integrates math, geography, and writing. Students begin with a folder that includes an expense ledger, spiral notebook for journal writing, laminated United States road map, and a United States road atlas. Using the laminated road map, students plan a cross-country road trip. Next, students begin with $5,000 in their expense ledger. Students randomly choose a travel card. Each travel card represents one day of traveling on the road and include food
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4th - 8th
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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5th - 8th
Scholarship Project Based Learning - Adding & Subtracting Decimals
Congratulations! Your students are awarded a set amount of money to spend to decorate their college dorm room. The activity includes:
* Step by Step Instructions
* Balance Sheet
* Sample Checks
* Additional Earning Opportunities
* Differentiation Suggestions
* Teacher Tips
* Rubric
With this problem based learning activity, your students will have practice adding and subtracting decimals, balancing a check registry, writing checks, planning a budget, shopping for the best deal, and man
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5th - 8th
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Percents: Understanding Credit Card Debt Worksheet for Students - Scenario 3
This chart covers the following scenario:
"Capital One offers a special credit card for teens. It has a spending limit of $100 per month and a very low monthly payment of 2%. The APR for this card is also pretty low at 7%. You talk to your parents and they agree that it sounds safe so they cosign the card with you. You now have your own credit card to use for monthly purchases and do not have to constantly ask your parents for money. You will owe your parents the remaining balance at the end
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7th - 10th
Trip Planners II - Math Role-Playing Game: Travel Cards 21-40
More hilarious and wacky fun featuring more complex math problem solving travel cards! This is a math role-playing game that integrates math problem solving, adding and subtracting money amounts, multiplying money amounts, geography, and writing. Students solve real-world problems as they travel using a road atlas. This compliments travel cards 1-20. Expense ledge template included.
Meets common core math standards for Grade 5: Numbers & Operations in Base Ten and Grade 6: The Number System
Fantasy Baseball by Josh Hammond
This exciting and interactive unit is based in the Common Core State Standards - specifically covering the Statistics and Probability domain for 6th and 7th grade.
There are 10 lessons in all that teach students about probability, mean and median, statistical variation, and much more. Students will also build a team of players from scratch, participating in a live auction to do so. Students will then play interactive games against each other, and keep track of the player statistics through it a
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5th - 8th
Concession Stand Spread Sheet For Google Sheets
This assignment will cover many different topics across the curriculum, including, math, research, economics not to mention the main objective to get more familiar with using Google Sheets. It is a simulation that will give the students a real life experience of running a concession stand, They will research products that would sell best in their stand in order for them to earn a profit. They will set up the spreed sheet to keep track of the amount of money they have spent, how much profit they
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8th - 11th
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Compare and Order Numbers Activity
This activity is designed to be used weekly (all year) to reinforce comparing and ordering numbers, and the numbers get more complex as the year progresses. The students will start with just positive integers, and end with ordering all forms of numbers on a single number line. To use this activity, you will need to hang a taught piece of string or yarn somewhere in your room that is easily accessible to all students upon their entry to the room. Each student will be given a number and needs t
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5th - 9th
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Math Summer Road Trip
A fun end-of-the-year math and geography project to be completed digitally. Students will use their math skills to plan out a road trip. They will track their mileage, money spent, and use ordered pairs and plotting skills. Students will choose their own destinations and research things to see if various locations across the country. Students take the lead in this self-directed and motivating project. Perfect for end-of-the-year "right brain" days!
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4th - 8th
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Buying a Home: Everyday Life Skills Math Series: Booklet
It is everyone’s dream to some day own their own home. This activity is designed for middle school, junior high school, and beyond to introduce or review basic mathematical theory while preparing each student for Real World experiences. The “Buying a Home” packet will explain the terms and concepts that each student will face when looking to purchase a home. Terms such as mortgage, closing costs, adjustable rate mortgage (ARM), and others will be discussed throughout each activity. Activitie
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4th - 10th, Adult Education
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Why Paying the Minimum is Bad - Credit Card Debt Calculator - Percents
This Excel file is set up to show students how quickly debt can add up if they only pay the minimum balance on a credit card. The spreadsheet is already formatted to do the calculations for you! All you have to change is your initial credit card balance and change the APR and minimum payment balance to fit different scenarios. This is a quick way to show your students the "big picture" when it comes to credit card debt. It is also a nice way to introduce students to applications of percents
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7th - 10th
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Exploring Unit Rate: Shopping for a Party
Students will analyze grocery store advertisements to determine the least expensive alternative to purchasing food for a party. This is a multi-step project-based learning unit, requiring students to choose items to shop for, compare prices per unit, add sales tax, and determine what they will have to pay alone and if they were to split the cost with friends. Topics covered include numerical operations (multiplication, division, unit rate, decimal operations), comprehension of functional text, a
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5th - 8th
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Conversions - Human Number Line Activity
This activity is designed to be used a fun review for converting between fractions, decimals, and percents.. As students enter the room, you will tape a number to their back (they will not look at it).
They can only as "yes" or "no" questions until they determine the value of their number. Once they do that, they will then go to the front of the room to create a human number line based on how their number compares to the rest of the class.
STAAR, TEKS, Number line, Conversion, Compare,
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5th - 9th
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Make Your Own Company
I came up with the idea of creating a company as a form of authentic intellectual work. Fortunately for me, my principal officially observed me during this particular lesson and told me later that he taught it was “exceptional”. I hope you can use it in your classroom so the students can use their creativity and learn math at the same time. There’s a broad range of mathematical value that can be associated to this lesson including, but not limited to:
Ordering decimals
Adding decimals
Subtractin
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4th - 8th
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Shop 'Til You Drop - A Money/Shopping Simulation Activity
Students will apply decimal computation and money skills in a fun catalog shopping simulation activity. An anecdotal assessment rubric is included.
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6th - 8th
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Credit Card Interest Example Excel Spreadsheet
An easy to understand and simple way to introduce students to how credit card interest can works and how quickly debt can build up. Simply fill in the two highlighted cells with the credit card rate and how much was spent on the card and the spreadsheet will self populate to show the first 12 months, two years, three years, four years, five years, ten years, 10 years, 20 years and 25 years. A must see for all future credit card owners and a great way to show the real-life application of decimals
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Pre-Algebra Real-Life Applications
That's Not Right: A Percent Change Screenplay
Students write a script, and show work for, two characters who argue about a percent-based change. Students choose whether to write about discount, tax, tip, percent change, or interest.
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7th - 9th
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Credit Tickets
This would be a great addition to any classroom economy. This helps students keep and organize "receipts".
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5th - 8th
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