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Middle school math simulation microsofts under $5
Stock Market Game
This game is fun! Your students will love to do math when they invest in a fictional stock market. Your students will be excited to add, subtract, and multiply decimals. Here's how it works:
The stock market includes 18 fictitious companies. "Current News" is released each day that affects the value of each stock. "Future Predictions" offer hints as to which stocks may go up or down. Students will buy and sell stocks as they hope to maximize their investment. Who will have the most money b
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4th - 6th
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Budget Spreadsheet Project (personal finance & math skills)
A step-by-step project with detailed instructions on how to set up an Excel spreadsheet budget. Students will apply math skills in context of a real-life budgeting situation.
Students will create a budget:
-Based on their future career choice.
-Independently by following the instructions using an Excel Spreadsheet.
-Over the course of at least 2 class periods (typically students take at least 2.5 hours to complete this project).
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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Percents: Understanding Credit Card Debt Worksheet for Student - Scenario 1
The question listed on Scenario 1 is as follows:
"In this scenario we purchased 1 item for $1000. (This could be a new TV, summer vacation, Laptop, etc.) We did not have the cash at the time so we charged it to our Visa. This particular credit card requires that we make a minimum payment of 13% each month. It also has an APR of 10%. Fill out the chart to find out how much you have paid at the end of the year and if you have a remaining balance. "
The chart is a great way for students to disc
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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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
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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DRIVER EDUCATION - ROAD TRIP PROJECT
This is a project that can be used in your driver education classroom. It will require research of miles between points, time tables, gasoline mileage of a chosen vehicle and budgeting a certain amount of given moey for the entire ROAD TRIP ! Have fun.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Personal Finance Budget Simulation
Fifth grade students in Texas are expected to be able to describe the importance of creating a budget in which income and expenses are balanced. Use this fun simulation/game to introduce the concept in a relevant way to your kiddos!
To play, students will only need whiteboards or lined paper to keep track of their expenses. Each student will start out with $20 in allowance money and will be asked to make spending decisions as they travel throughout the mall with their best friend.
An unexpec
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Translations, Rotations, and Reflections (Transformations in Geometry)
This PowerPoint presentation uses animations to demontrate 3 types of tranformations: translations, rotations, and reflections. Students can actively create their own transformational shape that can then be translated, rotated, or reflected to build a tessellation. Turn Geometry into a fun art project where students can add color to their tessellation to create an image out of te transformed shape.
Common Core, Geometry, transformations, translations, rotations, reflections
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Grades:
3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Consumer Math: On a Budget
Students will learn how to set a personal budget while building a clothing wardrobe for themselves.
Situation: A fire has destroyed all of your clothes. You must replace your entire wardrobe. The catch? You are on a strict budget.
How strict? $400.00. The less you spend, the more you win.
Skills: Finding percent; budgeting
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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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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Currency Conversions - Foreign Money - Proportions Worksheet
Are your students bored to tears with state assessments, math drills and dull text books? Are you bored to tears teaching the same proportion lesson over and over again just to hear them say "When are we ever going to use this?!" I created this lesson/worksheet to integrate a real life skill.
I love to travel and thought this would be a great way to relate it to math. While this assignment meets typical state and local standards for "applying ratios and proportions to real life problems" it
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Grades:
6th - 11th
Statistics Mode, Median, Mean, Range Worksheet for Math or Psychology
What's in the Hand: Activity makes learning mode, median, mean, and range fun. You will need two packs of playing cards in order to use 10 different variations. I use giant clothes pins to hold a total of 9 cards for each station. Each student gets a worksheet and is assigned to a group of 4-5 students. Students will complete the first rotation by figuring the mean, median, mode, and range, and then rotate to each other station in about 5 min intervals. At the end they will answer the questions
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Grades:
5th - 12th
Animal Shelter Business Development Simulation (Gifted 3-5)
This activity set was designed for use in a third through fifth grade gifted resource room. Students research, design, and plan for an animal shelter to house 10 dogs that are randomly assigned. Using these dogs students:
<>complete a research matrix on common dog breeds.
<>design a "blueprint" for the animal shelter using graph paper, measurements, and requirements. (Because this is usually the first simulation I use each year, the measurements are kept to squares.)
<>figur
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3rd - 6th
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STEM Predict Population Size & Test A Real Life Math Model mini bundle
Egg Ecology is a great way to bring some math into your biology class - or some biology into your math class!
In this lesson, students get to use the capture and recapture method on a population of wild plastic eggs that have been dispersed through the classroom habitat. Using data from the egg hunt, students predict the population size and then analyze how effective the mathematical model is. This is a great way to help show students how math concepts are applied in real life scenarios!
Stude
Grades:
7th - 12th
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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Grades:
8th - 12th
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CCSS:
Interior Design Living Room Information Gap Task Estar + Math Practice
Content-based information gap task that uses math and measurements to fit furniture into a room, learning how to describe location using estar. A word bank of furniture is provided alongside the floor plan for each student.Student A has a completed floor plan of a living roomStudent B has a blank floor planStudents A and B have a bank of the furniture pictures and namesStudent A is an interior decorator, and student B is the client. The client calls the decorator to ask where all the furniture h
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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
Grades:
7th - 10th
Checking Account Simulation
Do you need a lesson to teach students how to balance a checkbook? A PowerPoint presentation is included instructs students on how to balance their own checkbook and then gives them some "real world" practice. The PowerPoint includes writing a check, using a debit card, and making deposits. Also included is the handouts that you will give students in order for them to participate in the simulation. One handout is a checkbook register and the other handout has blank checks that students will writ
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
Negative Numbers: Understanding Their Use
This 26-slide PowerPoint presentation serves as an introduction to negative numbers. It begins with a simulation about sea level and leads into real-world examples of negative numbers that include temperature, golf scoring, and personal budget surplus/deficit. Also covered are opposites and defining a zero point. This presentation can be covered in under 30 minutes. Use it for a full class lesson or for individuals who need to gain more understanding or missed the lesson. The content is based on
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Grades:
6th
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Solving Multi-Step Equations Interactive Lesson and Presentation
This interactive powerpoint presentation will get your students solving multi-step equations with ease, understanding the process of solving multi-step equations, and explaining multi-step equations to others. It is designed with special education students and other students who take more time to learn, in mind. When using this lesson and graphic organizer we went from about half of our students getting it, to about 95% of them being able to solve multi-step equations with ease.Supports 7th gr
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in:Â Solving Multi-Step Equations Partner Activities
Persuading with Data: Using data bias to your advantage
The activity is designed as a follow-up to my Data Bias activity (posted for free). Student use what they learned about data bias to create data presentations (graphs, charts) that help prove their point. Multiple scenarios are given where students are trying to convince their parents that their grades/behavior aren't bad.
This activity helps students internalize the power of data bias and makes them more likely to look out for this bias in the real world. This makes for a really fun homew
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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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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Grades:
6th
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GPS Simulation - Applications of Algebra and Geometry - Aligned with Numb3rs
Are you tired of hearing your students say "When would you ever use this!?" This lesson is a perfect way to silence their complaints!
I originally designed this lesson to be used after watching the episode "Convergence"of the CBS television series Numb3rs. I think every middle/HS teacher should own copies of this series. If you aren't familiar with the show, it is basically a crime show where the characters solve crimes with math. (Similar to CSI) You might be able to download free episodes
Grades:
8th - 12th
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