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Applied math resources for GATE under $5
STEM Activity Pi Day ➡️ Packaging Engineer Career Exploration Math Challenge ⭕
A STEM activity with a career focus that is great for Pi Day or any time! In this hands-on math challenge, students will be packaging engineers for the day as they determine the best arrangement for a set of circles in the various packages! This 2D STEM challenge is a scaled-down, paper version of what real packaging engineers must accomplish with 3D objects and products. This activity ties in well to Pi Day because the objects are all circles! In a 3D version, these objects could be something l
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2nd - 12th
Tiny House STEM - Floor Plan Design
Tiny House Floor Plan and Budget STEM Challenge- The Tiny House Movement has people building small houses. The demand for Tiny Living homes is big! Have your students design a livable floor plan for a Tiny Home. They must stick to a budget and meet certain requirements. Learning has never been so fun!
This STEM focuses on solving a real-world science problem with engineering. It meets NGSS Standards.
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This STEM activity includes:
"The Pro
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Math Enrichment Project 2nd, 3rd, & 4th - Differentiated PBL - Plan A Road Trip
Your students will LOVE these fun math enrichment projects with a road trip theme! Students will plan 3 different, fun road trips from choice menus while working within various budgets! Perfect for math enrichment, gifted, fast finishers, and more. Zero prep for you, and tons of fun for them. These math enrichment projects come pre-differentiated. You get 3 different math projects, each with varying difficulty levels.They are so simple for you, too. All you need to do is print and GO! ✨Included
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Math Enrichment Projects for 2nd, 3rd, & 4th | Differentiated PBLs
Real World Math Student Fair | Business Plan Budgeting Project | Financial Math
This Real World Math project teaches middle school students financial literacy skills and budgeting through learning how to set up and run their own business. Students set up a booth or stall to make and sell at a school fair or fete. This pack carefully guides teaches to help the class pick good products and encourages team building and critical thinking. Are you looking for a fun way to teach your students about about financial literacy and real world math? Have your class run a 'Fun Day' set
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Financial Literacy Project Bundle Grades 5 to 9 | Economics and Business
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
Lego Math Challenges
These five math challenges engage students using Lego bricks to build towers, models, and solve problems. Challenges address a variety of upper elementary and middle school math skills including:
- adding fractions with unlike denominators
- finding equivalent fractions
- finding a fraction of a whole
- adding percentages
- finding a percentage of a whole
- area and perimeter
- factors
- prime numbers
- composite numbers
- Goldbach's conjecture
- multiplication
- scale factor
- proportional rel
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4th - 6th
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Lemonade Stand Game
Students can learn the basics of Economics and keep track of their earnings using this Lemonade Stand worksheet. Students play the Online Lemonade Stand Game found Online or at http://www.coolmath-games.com/lemonade/ and use the worksheet to track their progress. Students then can imput their data into Excel Spread sheets to graph their earnings. Great for GATE students or enrichment.
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5th - 9th
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Rate of Change Activity with X,Y Table & Graph Project Based Learning with Math
Build engagement with this task centered on raising adorable puppies. Students will calculate the theoretical rate of change for puppy growth using a t-table, a graph, and a slope-intercept equation. They will then discover the experimental rate of change for puppy growth and compare the outcomes to make predictions. With six low-prep versions of the task, your students will soon be confident and competent in using algebra to find real-world solutions. Raising Puppies Mastery Task gives student
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7th - 10th
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Presidential Birthday Statisticians: Math Performance Task (Grades 3-5)
In this math project your student has been commissioned to be a statistician for a very important government official. A special day is coming where our country will be honoring our past (and present) presidents.The person looking to hire them would like some interesting data, facts and findings about the president’s birthdays and their ages when they took office. They’ll be using the information you present to them in part of a special ceremony that will be televised to the country.This math pr
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3rd - 5th
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My Future Career and Budget ELA PBL
This is an English Language Arts PBL but can be easily adapted to any elementary school or Math class. Introduce household budgeting with research to make a career choice. Excel Budgeting Spreadsheets have formulas set up to automatically calculate taxes and percentages. Certain cells are formulated to credit and debit amounts. Teach students about the importance of education and choice by using this spreadsheet.Included in this purchase:<PBL Challenge Card<PBL ELA grading rubric <G
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Friday Math - Penny Tile Flooring for Upper Elementary and GATE
Another Friday Math lesson for hands-on learning across several Common Core Standards . . . at least 22 standards from 2nd to 6th grade: multiplication, division, decimals, area, geometry arrays, expressing ratios, public speaking and listening, and more!
In this lesson, students apply math skills to determine the number of pennies required to tile a kitchen floor. They’ll make strong hands-on, visual-mathematic connections for area and multiplication as they tackle this real-life DYI dilem
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3rd - 6th
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Weekly Extra Credit Math Brainteasers
Over 30 brainteasers that can be used during Math class, or for extra credit.
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5th - 9th
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Mission Maze- Coding with Spheros
Mission Maze! Code your Sphero Robot through the maze using measurements, math, and block-based coding. Included:2 Student Worksheet VersionsMaze ExampleMaterials Needed for Lesson- Sphero Robots (Any type)- Sphero Edu App- Pre-Built Maze (Taped on Tablecloths, Taped on Floor, 3D constructed Maze)- Rulers-Protractors (Not required, but helpful)
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-3
On Stage! Holiday Concert Planning Project Based Learning (Grades 3-5)
By some miracle, the student solving this problem has become the music program director! They are charged with planning the entire holiday program for the classroom. They will need to determine the number of tickets needed, what food and drink to serve, how to set up the risers, tables and chairs, and design the invitations and programs.
There are 6 in-depth problems within this gigantic problem (each step is it's own problem) walking the student through what they need to do.
The problems inte
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Simulation Station-Payday Budgeting-Economics Activity
Simulation Station-Payday gives students real-world experiences as they receive their first paycheck! The students have the task of prioritizing the bills that are due, writing checks to the companies, balancing the checkbook, all while saving some money for other expenses. They will gasp as the reality sinks in that they will not be able to go on a shopping spree or buy the newest video game-yet.
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3rd - 6th
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Real World Class Restaurant | Business Plan Budgeting Project | Financial Math
Do you want your students to learn financial literacy skills and budgeting in a real life setting? Students will undertake the ultimate business plan project by running a class restaurant/ cafe. As the teacher you will guide your class to pick a theme for your restaurant and then take them through the steps needed to be successful. Are you looking for a fun way to teach your students about about financial literacy and real world math? Have you thought about running a class cafe/ restaurant for o
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Financial Literacy Project Bundle Grades 5 to 9 | Economics and Business
Ancient Rome Money: Background and Lesson Plan
A comprehensive document containing background informaton for the teacher on the money system used in ancient Rome along with a complete lesson plan for having students apply the lesson to a mathematical task, which is a mythical Roman shopping list.
This is a great activity to do as part of your study of ancient Rome or even as a stand-alone mathematics lesson plan.
This Work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.
Looking for more to help you teach abo
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Grades:
5th - 9th
Mental Math Addition Subtraction Balancing Equations
Early Finishers & Gifted Addition & Subtraction Task Cards - These early finishers and gifted task cards will engage your students in problem solving at the application level. Lots of fun yet challenging!Balancing equations is a difficult concept for most students. Besides being perfect to challenge your early finishers and gifted students, these task cards are differentiated (3 different levels) to be your go-to resource for teaching balancing equations. Elizabeth S. said, "Such a wonde
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1st - 2nd
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STEM Challenge Activity Civil Engineering Cantilevered Beam
If you want to expose your students to STEM careers, this low prep STEM challenge is a hands-on civil engineering activity. STEM challenges are wonderful for team-building and can be used with a wide grade range. ✅ What You'll Get ✅Challenge PosterTeacher notes, including overview and objectivesPhoto example5 "Talk Like an Engineer" word cards with relevant vocabulary **includes link to QuizletTalk Like an Engineer PosterMultiple recording options: Graphic organizers (includes Google Slides opti
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Friday Math - Balloon Message Mystery for Upper Elementary GATE
Best practices in Common Core Standards, gifted education and 21st Century Learning Skills . . .
This cross-curricular applied math activity addresses the Common Core Standards in a fun way for everyone. Balloon Mystery Messages is applied math, engineering and design, writing, geography, research skills, and internet and computer technology bundled in one mighty cool set of activities.
In Balloon Mystery Messages, students practice long division and 4+ digit multiplication as they solve th
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: STEAM Class BUNDLE - Math Focus Hours of Hands-on Projects GATE Gifted
The Measure of Me: Measurement & Data Project for 1st-3rd Grades
Also available as fully customizable Google Doc! THE MEASURE OF ME is an extended, hands-on, very personal project designed to address the Measurement and Data standards of the Common Core for 2nd grade. It integrates whole and small group lessons, independent practice and partner activities withmeasurement skills and concepts including length, height and time,data collection and analysis skills, and fact vs. opinion concepts. Best of all, this project is personalized to each kid, offering oppo
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1st - 3rd
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Integrated STEM & Close Reading | Groundhog Day STEM Challenge
In this Groundhog Day themed STEM challenge, students figure out multiple ways to pop a "groundhog" up out of his "burrow," and then they must accurately measure his shadow using centimeters.This activity challenges students to call on most of the Standards of Mathematical Practices, as well as to write clearly for a specific purpose. It puts accurate measurement and data recording into real-life practice. Groundhog Day is an opportunity to discuss hibernation, seasons, and folklore. Here's a
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Integrated STEM & Close Reading | STEM Challenges BUNDLE
Catch Up: Helping Students Understand the Importance of Completing Work
If you want to reinforce the importance of doing work this is a powerful way to accomplish your goal while teaching t-tables, graphing, patterns, and functions. Students typically don’t realize how important each assignment is to the outcome of their grade. With this activity, they will see its impact and remember it for months to come. A great way to start your school year or a new grading period.
THE MEASURE OF ME: Editable Measurement & Data Project for 1st-3rd Grades
Also available as a quick-print PDF! THE MEASURE OF ME (Google Docs editable version) is an extended, hands-on, very personal project designed to address the Measurement and Data standards of the Common Core for 2nd grade. It integrates whole and small group lessons, independent practice and partner activities withmeasurement skills and concepts including length, height and time,data collection and analysis skills, and fact vs. opinion concepts. Best of all, this project is personalized to each
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
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