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Middle school applied math simulation microsofts
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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"The Great Food Truck Project" - Rate, Proportions, and Percents Unit Assessment
A rates and proportions unit project, centering around the real-world use of percentages and rates. Students work with a small group to create their own concept for a food truck, including what food and drink options they would sell. Using inspiration for "The Great Food Truck Race" and "Sharktank" TV shows, students work to create a best-selling idea, that also showcases their own values as a "company".I hope to share more information and examples of how I use this project with my upcoming ye
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6th - 8th
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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Using Probability to Teach Social Justice
This is an exploratory experiment/activity about basic probability. Students discover the differences between theoretical probability, experimental probability, and reality by taking a hard look at Stop and Frisk in urban areas. Students also deal with independent and dependent events.
By the end of the project, students will be able to:
Articulate the differences between theoretical and experimental probability through prediction and experimentation.
Articulate the differences between indep
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8th - 12th
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Distributive Property: Changing Expressions
This 22-slide PowerPoint presentation demonstrates how to use common factors and the distributive property to change an expression. Addition problems involving whole numbers are changed into a multiplication problem which is the product of the greatest common factor of the addends and the sum of two whole numbers that have no GCF other than "1". The content is based on 6th grade Common Core standard: CCSS.Math.Content.6.NS.B.4. The presentation takes about 30 minutes, but time considerations dep
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6th
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Racial Profiling and Probability (Social Justice Math)
In this assignment, you will investigate racial profiling, or Driving While Black (DWB). African Americans and Latinos/as have complained, filed suit, and organized against what they believe are racist police practices—being stopped, searched, harassed, and arrested because they “fit” a racial profile—they are African American (Black) or Latino/a (Brown). But is this true? How do we know? And can mathematics be a useful tool in helping us answer this question?These questions will be answered usi
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7th - 12th
Personal Shopper to the Stars- Research and Math Project
What kid doesn’t have a famous person that they admire? Who doesn’t’ like to spend money? This download combines both interests into one motivational activity.
In this project, students will research a famous person alive today, focusing on their hobbies, personal preferences, family life, etc. Then take the information they’ve learned about their famous person and become their personal shopper. They will then use a budget of $5,000 to buy gifts that fit their person’s lifestyle. The student
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3rd - 6th
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Chewey Bubble Gum Company - Intro To Probability
Want to introduce your students to the probability of something happening? Want to peak their interest before you start a probability unit? This experiment based activity allows students to find the probability of something happening while having fun and popping bubble gum bubbles!
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6th - 12th
Bacterial and Viral Replication Lab
This lab requires you to have raw beans (any kind to model bacteria) and whiteboards for students to draw a family tree and write out generation numbers next to each bacterial generation. (You could also do this on paper.)This lab is a great way for students to simulate bacterial and viral reproduction. For the bacteria, students will model the number of bacteria in each generation starting with only one bacterium (represented by a bean). With each generation, students will watch as the family t
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8th - 9th
Project Based Learning - Building A Math Lab
Integrating Technology and Engineering in a Math classroom is an ideal lesson plan for a STEM school. This project requires students to create a math lab for their school by designing the room, making technology purchases, buying math related materials, preparing cost analysis graphs using Excel, writing persuasive letters, and creating a movie advertisement to sell their math lab. It is a great way to involve the community by inviting in guest speakers. My students worked on this project o
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4th - 8th
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Financial Tradeoffs Discussion Prompts for Financial Literacy & Personal Finance
Here’s a quick and easy way to incorporate some basic financial literacy and personal finance (along with some critical thinking) into your middle or high school class (grades 7-10).These 8 prompts describe realistic financial situations about work, school, housing, weddings, cars, and retirement. Use them as research prompts, debate topics, or a simple classroom discussion (perfect for those 10-15 minutes you sometimes end up with at the end of a lesson). Only basic math skills and general fina
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7th - 10th, Adult Education
Interactive Online ELab Simulations Lab - Shopping Unit Rates Lab
In this FREE online interactive simulation provided by PhET, developed by the University of Colorado, students will explore unit rates through the process of buying goods. Students will explore how shopping uses unit rates to determine the price of various goods. Students will need a computer, tablet or IPad. These simulations were designed for IPad use. This handout goes directly with the Elab and contains directions on accessing the lab online as well as directions on how to complete the lab.
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5th - 8th
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Unit Rate: A Special Type of Ratio
This 18-slide PowerPoint presentation introduces the concept of a unit rate. It assumes students have already learned about the concept of a ratio. The material is based on Common Core 6th grade math standard: CCSS.Math.Content.6.RP.A.2. The presentation begins with a problem trying to compare two ratios to determine the best gas mileage. A tape diagram model is used to transform the ratios into unit rates to see how much more helpful they are when making comparisons. Unit rates are calculated u
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6th
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Absolute Value: Understanding Comparisons
This 18-slide PowerPoint presentation goes deeper into understanding absolute value. It demonstrates the difference between comparing two numbers and comparing the absolute value of two numbers. Real-world examples are given to help students better understand the material. Completely review the presentation so you can decide how best to use it in your curriculum. The content is based on Common Core standard CCSS.Math.Content.6.NS.C.7.D. The instruction assumes that the student has already experi
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6th
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Ratios: Relationships Between Values
This 27-slide PowerPoint presentation is designed as an introduction to the concept of a ratio. It uses a fictional grocery store employee who uses data gathered to determine the right balance of carts and baskets to maintain in his store. Ratio language is analyzed as well as the formats of writing a ratio and simplifying when applicable. The lesson is based on the 6th grade Common Core standard: CCSS.Math.Content.6.RP.A.1. It is intended for full class use, but can be used for individuals who
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6th
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Social Issue Project: Dangerous Dolls?
During this project, students will measure themselves, measure action figures/dolls, and scale up the doll proportionally to life size, based on their height. Then, they will trace themselves on a large piece of butcher block paper. On that same paper, they will sketch out the life-sized doll proportions and create a body outline of what the doll would look like if it were their same height. They should finish with something that looks terribly disproportionate. From there, you can have a debate
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6th - 10th
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Personal Budget Worksheet
Worksheet for careers research that works in reverse order. Students estimate amounts in each category to determine how much they will then need to earn each month to meet their needs.
Easily editable Word document, so you can change the estimate amounts to better reflect the costs in your community.
Useful for careers classes and college and university counseling.
Grades:
7th - 12th
$1,000,000.00 Math Challenge
Let your students practice real world math skills with this common core aligned simulation. Students are able to practice subtraction and multiplication will decimals in a fun and engaging way. This activity was used to culminate and allow students to show their understanding of concepts such as place value to the millions, basic operations with decimals, applying and estimating taxes, budgeting, and recording purchases. The students loved it!
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4th - 6th
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How do you run your business?
This activity helps students to understand that there are many factors that can affect how well a business does in the real world. I have used this activity in a Personal Finance class, but it would also work well for a life skills class, a beginning business class, or as an introduction activity for a variety of units.
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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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
Fraction Division using String!
After a discussion of reciprocals, students work in cooperative groups to prove the fraction division algorithm by folding lengths of string into fractional parts. After practicing by dividing a whole number length of string, they divide a fractional string length into smaller fractional parts.
Aha Moment: When finished, students will have proven why the abstract concept of fraction division is equal to multiplying by the reciprocal of the second fraction.
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5th - 8th
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Coding for Physics - Projectile Motion
A spreadsheet template that teaches simple mathematical coding in order to solve equations of motion. Includes a video demonstration of how to write all code. Once complete, students may input initial conditions and computer will auto-calculate displacement in two axis (x-axis or range, y-axis or height) and velocity in both axis and then graphs results.
Teacher's Edition is hidden on each page with additional video resources, and link to Google Sheets version of this activity. To find open
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7th - 10th
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Dealing With Money
This product walks students through 7 different budgets and bills. This includes finding gross and net income and bill totals. It requires operations with decimals (the focus of this worksheet). The top says "no calculator" but file is in word, so that can be deleted. The 8th question on the sheet is a reflection question. It's a great real-world application of working with decimals.
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5th - 9th
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BUILD A POOL HOUSE
Students use perimeter, area, volume and budgeting to build a pool house. Students also practice technical writing in mathematics.
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5th - 6th
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