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Middle school fractions simulations
Force and Motion Science Lab Activities: NASCAR Class Transformation
Are you looking for a fun way to teach about force and motion? Do your students struggle expressing the relationship between force, mass, and motion? This set of science activities will have your students understating the relationship through fun racing science activities. These fun simulation brings real life experience into the classroom making students immediately vested and ready to learn about force and motion. I have designed the lab activities in this classroom transformation to engage st
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Math and Science Lab Classroom Transformations
FSA Simulation for 6th Grade Math: 64 qsts; NO PREP Distance Learning Packet
I created this FSA Simulation to simulate the varying levels of rigor on the actual 6th Grade Math FSA. The test includes Session 1 and Session 2, each with 32 questions. It also includes an answer sheet for the student, and an answer key for the teacher, parent, or for the student to self-correct. This test was designed to simulate the Florida FSA, but the standards are very similar to most other states. Therefore this also makes a great practice test for: Georgia Milestones Indiana
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6th
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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: 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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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 Escape Room Bundle
For one price get all FOUR of my escape rooms, and more as I continue to add them! These activities are a great way to review fraction and mixed number operations, the order of operations, and customary and metric measurement conversions. These can be used with many grade levels but align with 4th-7th grade math standards. Included is:-Order of Operations Escape Room-Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying and Dividing Fractions Escape Room -Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying, and Dividing Mixed Numbers
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4th - 8th
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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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5th - 8th
Also included in: 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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5th - 8th
Also included in: 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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5th - 8th
Also included in: Choose Your Own Math-venture: Zombies (percents)
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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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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6th - 9th
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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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Tape Diagrams: Computing Parts of a Whole
This PowerPoint presentation serves as an introduction to solving problems that involve finding parts of a whole by using tape diagrams. The process is clearly explained and modeled including examples using fractions and percents converted to fractions. The product can be used as an interactive class lesson or for individual student use due to absence or remediation. The amount of time spent using this presentation will vary depending on the teacher's usage of stopping points and/or student inte
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6th
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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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Fractions Escape Room- Distance Learning (equivalent, number lines, comparing)
Need an engaging activity to review naming fractions, comparing fractions, fractions on a number line and equivalent fractions- look no further! In this "escape room" style game, an entire pizza has gone missing in the Fraction Pie Pizzeria. Your students will strive to recover all 4 slices of the missing pizza. Each slice is a different fraction skill. This game is zero prep, completely digital and perfect for distance learning. It can also be used in the classroom in small groups, individual
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2nd - 6th
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Thanksgiving Real World Fraction Computation
Those zany caterers from Feed Your Face catering are at it again! This time, students will help them solve Thanksgiving menu challenges while practicing fraction computation. Great for math centers, warm-up problems, or homework.
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5th - 7th
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Fractions Escape Room Activity
This fractions escape room activity is a fun way to review fraction operations! It corresponds with 4th, 5th, and 6th grade common core standards but it can be used with many grade levels. It covers adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions. It would be a great review or test prep for a unit about fractions, or for sub plans. 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 to students to do
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Math Escape Room Bundle
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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Bills, Bills, Bills - Computing living expenses with a budget
Students choose a career and use the profession's median salary to calculate how to live within their budget.
They will use the provided, real-world data to compute the amount of their salary that is used for taxes, insurance, utilities, housing, etc.
They will use fractions, decimals, and percents to figure out how much of their salary is left after expenses.
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4th - 6th
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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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Conceptual Understanding for Operations: Rectangular Models
This PowerPoint includes animations for operations of whole numbers, decimals fractions and place value with rectangular models. You can demonstrate to students side-by-side the procedural and conceptual steps to add, subtract, multiply and divide rational numbers. To properly show animation, present to Presentation View. This item is designed to make teachers' explanation of operations meaningful and connect different levels of rigor. Topics include: place value, adding whole numbers, subt
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1st - 9th, Adult Education
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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Fractions as Decimal and Percents E-Lab Handout- Ipad Interactive Activity
This exploration handout is to be used with the interactive Fraction Model E-Lab from the National Council of Teacher of Mathmatics. This activity is best completed on an Ipad or computer. The handout helps guide the exploration of different representations for fractions including improper fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, and percentages. Additionally, there are length, area, region, and set models. Adjust numerators and denominators to see how they alter the representations and models. Use t
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3rd - 7th
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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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