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8th grade critical thinking math games
Interactive Game Boards | Boost Engagement With Any Lesson
Boost engagement and excitement with these interactive game boards using sticky notes. These game boards can be used with any subject or lesson. They are perfect for review or test prep. Students can work as teams, partners, or as a whole class. Use your already printed worksheet or workbook and add these game boards to excite and motivate your students! This is the perfect way to spice up a review lesson or use for test prep. ***PowerPoint and PDF versions included. *These game boards were desi
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2nd - 8th
Also included in: Interactive Game Bundle | Student Engagement
Coordinate Plane Graphing Plotting Points Math Battleship Activity
You Sunk My Ship is a coordinate plane graphing activity, similar to Battleship, where students will battle it out in a head to head competition trying to locate each other's ships. Your students can complete in this engaging and strategic activity while practicing their math skills. Includes file folder game boards for quadrant I practice as well as one that uses all 4 quadrants (4 versions for each one). Also included are one page versions of the activity as well as a quiz.Packet includes:-Te
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: 6th Grade Coordinate Graphing Bundle Poster INB Game NO PREP Printable
Would You Rather Sampler - Fun Questions for Discussion, Writing Prompts, & More
Dive into writing prompts, classroom discussion, and more with our exclusive sampler from Would You Rather Questions!!These 18 digital or print Would You Rather questions are great for discussion, class polls, writing prompts, language building, facilitating higher-level thinking, brain breaks, building community, and more! This sampler gives you a taste of our comprehensive Would You Rather resource that promises to make learning engaging and effective.Try before you buy!Purchase this sampler f
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2nd - 9th
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Word and Logic Puzzles Escape Room Activity With Digital Lock Option
In this engaging escape room activity, teams work together to solve the word puzzles and logic puzzles using critical thinking skills to discover codes to open the lock. Students love the fun of an escape room game, and you will love that this low-prep activity gets them thinking as they solve the puzzles and clues! ⭐️ How does the escape room work? (Click the PREVIEW link above and watch the VIDEO for a closer look at this activity!)In this escape room activity, students will solve 4 different
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6th - 9th, Adult Education
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Create a Board Game! Project Based Learning Unit - Templates + Rubrics + Slides
Unleash creativity with our Board Game Project Based Learning Unit! Ideal for 1st grade and up! Make learning fun by creating a board game. Includes templates, rubrics, and more! PDF & Powerpoint Slides to introduce the project to students.KEY FEATURES:64 PAGES OF VALUE: Includes 64 pages of resources to support the entire project lifecycle from planning and crafting to reflecting.TEMPLATES FOR EVERYTHING: Comes with a variety of templates including warm up activities, planning, game design,
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2nd - 8th
BRAIN TEASERS 4-Pack Bundle, Logic, Word Sense, Puzzles, Lateral Thinking – Fun!
Whether you need bell-ringer presentation slides or just want to occasionally mess with your students’ minds when you have a few unused minutes at the end of a class period, this four volume set of Brain Teasers has everything you need to keep your students working hard and thinking deeply. There are LOTS of ways you could use this collection of 152 questions in both PDF & Google Slides format (304 slides – the question is on the first slide and the answer with an eye-catching image is on th
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Convert Fractions to Decimals & Percentages Activity 6th 7th Grade Math Review
This set of Converting Fractions, Decimals, and Percents "Squares" Games contains 8 fun and engaging games to help students practice converting various fractions, decimals, and percents.
In these games, students will practice:
• Converting fractions to decimals and percents
• Converting decimals to fractions and percents
• Converting percents to fractions and decimals
• BONUS: Converting ratios to decimals and percents
DIFFERENTIATED! Each skill listed above (except for the bonus
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5th - 8th
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CHRISTMAS Escape Room (Activities, Trivia & Puzzle Games for Students)
There are five Christmas escape room-type (trivia) challenges included in this file. Each activity can be completed individually or in conjunction with one another, depending on the time available in your planning. The challenges could be used as individual, pair or small group activities. The puzzles and games are designed to promote communication, cooperation and problem-solving skills. A detailed and thorough teacher instruction page has been included, which provides differentiated instructio
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5th - 12th
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Team Building Escape Room with Logic Puzzles Critical Thinking Escape Room
Engage your students with this Team Building Escape Room! This is great as a back to school escape room! This escape room is perfect for both the end of the year and beginning of the year. Students will be engaged and challenged with logic puzzles, codes to decipher, and more. There is both a full easy prep printable version as well as a Google(TM) form digital version for virtual or distance learning.This resource includes everything you need to implement a challenging and fun escape room fo
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4th - 9th
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END OF THE YEAR Escape Room (Team Building Activities)
If you are looking for a team-building activity to keep your students engaged during the last few days, weeks or month before summer break, then THE GREAT END OF THE YEAR ESCAPE is for you! There are six end of the year-themed (trivia) challenges included in this file. Students will complete a variety of tasks using different skills including: problem-solving, critical thinking, reading comprehension, and basic math. Looking for a digital end of the year escape room? If so, click HERE!A fun, one
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Escape Room Team Building Bundle
Middle School Math Activities Bundle | All Things Algebra®
Middle School Math Activities BundleWhat does this bundle contain?This bundle contains 146 activities in my store related to Middle School Math. They are most appropriate for grades 6 and 7, but can be used with grade 8 as well. Sold separately, they total $462. If more activities are added, you will get these for free by simply re-downloading the bundle. Google versions of activities are sold separately. **Click on the preview to see a list of items included.**How does this bundle compare to y
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6th - 8th
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The Great Depression: A Saving and Spending Game
Students work together in small groups to make decisions about how to save or spend their money during the Great Depression. They will see what it is like to have a well-paying job and then lose most of their money in the stock market crash of 1929. They will have to find a new job, a place to live (hobo camp or boxcar), and figure out how to provide for their family with very little.Students will have to subtract their bills from their total amount of money using a spending ledger (provided).
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4th - 8th
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Editable Jenga : Literacy and Math Center Games
This fun and engaging color Jenga game is perfect for spicing up literacy and math centers, or review or test prep for any subject. The cards for this set are blank and EDITABLE. You can customize them with questions, problems, words, etc. for any skill or standard to meet the needs of your students and grade level! These cards are to be used with this color Jenga set: Lewo Wooden Stacking Board Games Building Blocks for Kids.Game can be played in partners or a small group. Students take turns r
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PreK - 12th
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ELA Escape Room - Escape the School Reading Comprehension Activities
Are you looking for an activity that is so much fun students won't even notice they're learning? Here you go! Use this escape room as an end-of-year team-building activity or ANY time you want to strengthen students' reading comprehension skills, provide figurative language practice, and hone their critical thinking and problem solving skills.This engaging breakout is immersive and fun! Your students are trapped in school by a giant who thinks they are way too clever. They will be there forever.
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Escape Room: School, Forest, and Planet
Order of Operations Dice Center Activity
Place students into groups of 4. Give each student a game board. (You may want to print the game boards on cardstock and then laminate for future use.)For each round, one student from the group will roll a die. Each student will then write down the number rolled in one of the blank boxes on his or her game board for that round. Repeat the process until all three boxes in the round are filled with a number. Students will then evaluate their expressions and write their answers in the last box. The
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5th - 9th
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One Minute Mental Math Games No Prep, Math Fact Fluency Games, Minute Math
Tired of those extra minutes at the end of class?Ready to teach from bell to bell? These One Minute Mental Math Games no prep are for you! Build math fact fluency games into every minute of your class with 10 fun, no-prep minute math games! Be done with downtime in your classroom FOREVER!⭐️⭐️⭐️ NO PREP! JUST PLAY! ⭐️⭐️⭐️We all know that unstructured time can take your classroom from calm to crazy-town faster than I can say “multiplication”. That feeling of thirty sets of eyes staring back at yo
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Pythagorean Theorem Activity Murder Mystery w/ Word Problems 8th Grade Geometry
Students become a part of the story line in this Murder Mystery Pythagorean Theorem activity! Perfect for 8th grade math or as a refresher for Geometry students. Students are transported to a beautiful estate for a lawn party, when a guest is murdered. They must work with word problems to solve Pythagorean Theorem problems and figure out who among them is the murderer!"I was so surprised how much my 8th grade students enjoyed this they kept saying” are we really doing math?" - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Kerrie S. (T
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8th - 10th
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Also included in: 8th Grade Math Activity Bundle Mysteries
Think Outside the Box Thursday Doodle Prompt Finish the Drawing SEL Activity
Are you looking for an engaging morning meeting activity? Think outside the box Thursday is the creative solution you're looking for! These 21 creative drawing prompts use half of a "common" image to prompt your students to create an outside the box picture! This Doodle activity works great for a warm-up, morning work, morning meeting activity, crew or advisory time, early finisher activities, or a sub plan day. As you go Back to School, challenge your students to think outside the box with this
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2nd - 12th
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Common Grammar and Writing Mistakes Escape Room Game - Digital Resource
This digital resource is a grammar review disguised as a fun escape room adventure activity. Mission: individuals or teams work through puzzles to discover the location of stolen jewels. Challenges in this grammar escape room include working with common mistakes in writing, such as frequently confused words and common grammar errors. There are also other challenges to encourage critical thinking, problem solving, and following directions! (See important information below about tech requirements)
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7th - 10th, Adult Education
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Rational Number Operations Activity Bundle | Add & Subtract Integers Activities
This Rational Number Operations Activity Bundle includes 10 classroom activities to support adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing rational numbers (both positive and negative). These hands-on and engaging activities are all easy to prep! Students are able to practice and apply concepts with these decimal operations activities, while collaborating and having fun! Math can be fun and interactive!Standards: CCSS (7.NS.1, 7.NS.2, 7.NS.3) and TEKS (7.3A, 7.3B) More details on what is include
Back to School Math Activities for Middle School
The first week of math class is coming! Want to engage students, create community, and get to know your students… all while doing some math? Look no further! Included are 4 resources that will help you tackle back to school:The Graph of MeThis is an activity students love! Students determine if statements are true or false about themselves. Each statement has a corresponding ordered pair. Students graph the points for each true statement to create a unique shape. The result is "the graph of me!”
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6th - 9th
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STEM Careers BINGO Game! (Middle & High School)
A BINGO career game for science, technology, engineering, math (STEM) careers! Includes career descriptions and fun facts about each STEM career. An easy, low-prep activity that can last from 20 - 60 minutes! Includes 40 game boards cover 48 STEM careers with a companion (editable) Google Slide presentation of each career!**Grades K - 5 school version here**Distance learning version! Play during a virtual class! Send students a copy of the included Google Slides version of the game. Each student
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5th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Middle School Distance Learning: Digital STEM Activity Bundle
Vocabulary Activities Bundle Differentiated for Any Word List: Set 1
Whether you've chosen words from literature, from test prep lists, from a vocabulary book, or hand-selected words you think your students should know, the exercises in this bundle will complement them perfectly. Designed to work with any vocabulary list, these activities, games, and practice worksheets will get your students thinking creatively. If your classroom culture calls for small group activities, stations, creative learning, differentiation, brain-based learning, or enrichment, this bund
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8th - 11th
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Money Math (Coins) Identification Card Game for life skills special education
This money math card game works on matching coins to same coins (front and back) as well as their written amount ($0.01, $0.05, $0.10, $0.25 plus 1¢, 5¢, 10¢, and 25¢). What a fun way to work on functional life skill math! Note: This game with coins can be combined with the dollar bill game for extended learning!INCLUDED:Money amount cards: front of coinsback of coins (included 8 different quarter backs)money amount with dollar signs ($) and cent signs (¢).Special cards: wild with colorswild wit
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2nd - 12th
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Also included in: Coin Identification Money Math BUNDLE for special education
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