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Adult education word problems projects
Solving Linear Equations Project Based Learning Math Activity Buy your First Car
Get students hyped about solving linear equations while planning the purchase of their first car! Drive into a real world math activity that students can connect to their personal need for transportation. This low prep math activity is a win-win for students and teachers alike. The First Car Mastery Task guides students in using variables, tables, and equations to calculate and analyze the purchase price, the value, and depreciation of their first car. Students will discover the value of negati
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7th - 11th, Adult Education
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EDITABLE Pizza Themed Math Project Activity Fractions, Decimals and Percents
This is an EDITABLE summative math assessment with the theme of pizza and comprises seven questions that center on fractions, decimals, and percents. It may be given as a final test, summative project or self-guided learning activity and is perfect for distance learning. The seven questions use three levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (remembering, understanding and applying). Specific student directions are provided, and three boxes of a sample project are included in the students’ three page handout
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5th - 8th, Adult Education
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Math Summative Project Based Algebra Activity EDITABLE: Building a House
This EDITABLE math summative algebra assessment (project based learning) is comprised of eight questions based on four levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy and requires solving for one unknown using basic mathematical formulas. The theme is centered on the construction of a house. The student is the building contractor who must make a variety of decisions to correctly solve each portion of this assessment. The students may present the project in two different ways, as a power point or as a written projec
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7th - 9th, Adult Education
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Volume & Surface Area of Prisms & Cylinders Activity Project -Popcorn Experiment
Students will devour this engaging math experiment focused on comparing the volume of right prisms and cylinders while discovering the power of exponents in determining volume. Students will use perimeter, surface area, and volume to support their conclusions. Best of all, they can eat the results! You will love the power of flexibility with this student-driven activity. Rigor is high but student engagement is even higher! The purpose of the Popcorn Volume Experiment is to allow students to dis
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6th - 10th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Fun with Geometry Activities Bundle – Project Based Learning with Math
Solving Equations Unit - Engagement Activities and APP-tivities!
This is your one-stop shop for a unit on solving one-step, two-step and multi-step equations! We know *what* students need to learn, but this unit provides the all-important *how*! Take a peek by downloading the preview! Activities (and APP-tivities) designed with student engagement in mind! A culmination of activities that encourage mathematics communication and problem solving, such as:
* My own graphic organizer, designed to structure student work (you know they think they can solve one-
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Percent Markup, Discount, Tax, and Tip Real World Differentiated Project
This document contains a project in which students will use the ideas of percent markup, discount, tax, and tip in a hypothetical situation that is authentic to their lives.
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Project Based Learning Zinnia's Cafe, Math, Geometry, Business, Algebra
Welcome to Zinnia’s Café. This is an interactive unit study to reinforce Middle through High School Math, Algebra, Geometry, Math and Cooking principles in an engaging, real life format. These project-based exercises also introduce some basic concepts of entrepreneurial business. As the student follows the events of Zinnia’s day to day operation of her café, they will see how many mathematical theories and principles are encountered in everyday situations. Students learn by doing with engaging a
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Real Cost of Purchasing a Car: A Classroom Activity
This activity walks students through the calculations to find the true cost of purchasing a vehicle. Students will consider the impact of changing variables such as interest rates, down payments, loan duration, and the purchase price.
A thorough instruction page guides students through the process and allows each student to gain an understanding for the formulas used in each step of the process including the calculation of simple interest.
After completing the worksheet, students will analy
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8th - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Microsoft Excel Functions Workbook, Volume 2 (BUSINESS MATH)
NOTE: Check out Microsoft Excel Functions Workbook, Volume 1!This is an Excel 97-2003 workbook collection of 15 project-based, problem solving spreadsheet exercises (with complete keys - SEE PREVIEW) that help students learn to use the following powerful Microsoft Excel functions:SUMAVERAGEIFCOUNTIFCOUNTBLANKEach exercise generally takes between 1 and 2 full class periods to complete. I take 10-15 minutes to explain the problem, the deliverable, and the tools, and then let the students work inde
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Plan Your Overall Personal Budget Project
This folder contains a four part project for planning a personal budget, in addition to a mini lesson on taxes and creating pie charts. This is a great way for students to exhibit their mathematical skills in regards to a real world situation as well as develop life skills when it comes to budgeting in general. This project can be done at home or in class, and can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks depending on your depth and desires.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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BUNDLE: Functions and Relations Power Point with Corresponding Lab/ NO PREP
Students find the following lesson and corresponding activity to be an exhilarating mathematical experience!* Why?* They find it exhilarating, because after going through the lesson and the accompanying activity, they readily understand a simple but confusing concept. * The power point includes a 39 page power point over Functions and Relations along with a 19 page Math Lab written by yours truly. * The Math Lab provides "hands-on" experience to students where they use a pair of
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6th - 9th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Modern Era Project
Students will have a choice of creating either a magazine, newspaper, or book about the political, social, and economic struggles facing new countries in the 20th and 21st centuries. When they are researching, they should be asking themselves, Is this a ____________ struggle? If yes, this is the content for their project. It’s just that simple!!! Also, the rubric is embedded on the handout!
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Microsoft Excel Functions Workbook, Volume 1
NOTE: Check out Microsoft Excel Functions Workbook, Volume 2 (BUSINESS MATH)This is an Excel 97-2003 workbook collection of 9 project-based, problem solving spreadsheet exercises (with complete keys - SEE PREVIEW) that help students learn to use the following powerful Microsoft Excel functions:IFCEILINGCHOOSECONCATENATECOUNTBLANKRANKSUMEach exercise generally takes between 1 and 2 full class periods to complete. I take 10-15 minutes to explain the problem, the deliverable, and the tools, and the
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Create Your Own Pattern Project - Squares - Studying Linear Relationships
Create Your Own Linear Pattern Project - Studying Linear RelationshipsThis project offers students the opportunity to study, describe, and understand a linear relationship between two quantities. Students will also have the opportunity to analyze a linear relationship using different representations. This allows students to form connections between the various methods of representing linear relationships which ultimately results in a deeper level of learning. For example, students will observe
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Centers of a Triangle Project
This is a great real world example of how midpoints, midsegments, incenter, and circumcenter can be used. Patty paper is helpful but not required.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Math Task - Proving ALL Triangles Equal 180 Degrees
This is a Mathematics lesson based on the New Common CORE Standards. It addresses 7th grade standard 7.GB.5 but I have used it with my 5th grade class. It is meant as a problem solving task for students to introduce them to solving for the unknown angle of a triangle. The lesson presents them with a theory that all angles of ANY triangle when added will equal 180 degrees. They will then work in small groups to either prove this is correct or incorrect. At the end of this lesson students will und
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5th - 8th, Adult Education
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Math Project Systems of Equations RealWorld Sales Representative *DISTANCE LEARN
PRINT and DIGITAL * * Makes distance planning so much easier!Systems of Equations Real World Application Sales Representative Math ProjectDo you want your students to apply their skills solving systems of equations to a real world situation? In my Systems of Equations Real World Application Sales Representative Math Project your students will learn how to interpret the “real world meaning” of the y-intercept, the “real world meaning” of the point of intersection, and the rate of change. They w
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8th - 11th, Adult Education
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Tic-Tac-Toe Geometry Project
This is a diverse project for a geometry unit. Students get to choose 3 projects they can do. It gives them options and can choose what they will enjoy doing the most. I give students this project at the beginning of a unit and it is due right before the unit test.A grading rubric is attached to easily grade their assignment which is in any easy to grade rubric format worth 100 points.Includes: Tic-tac-toe board, student/teacher/parent contract, scoring and grading rubric and instructions/rul
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Algebra Essentials Activity Pack (10 Classroom Activities)
Ten of my favorite algebra activities!
This activity pack contains the following activities for engaging your students with their math and each other:
-Fun at the Fair!
Explore the Coordinate Plane and the Slope Intercept Form while investigating the County Fair
-Trashing the Pollutomax
Use Data Plots such as Bar Graphs, Line Graphs, and Circle Graphs (Pie Charts) to anaylze pollution in the Pollutomax River
-Plight of the Adelie Penguins
Referencing actual research results from Palmer Stat
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6th - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Inquiry Learning
Do you want maths to be fun?
Investigative?
Open ended?
This is a project that I created to help prepare our Gr 6 class for their upcoming Urban Camp in Melbourne.
Children were required to plan the camp themselves after being given the names of the places they were due to visit.
Lots of planning and using tram and bus timetables and finding out what it takes to transport 60 children from a country town around a capital city.
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4th - 6th, Adult Education
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Systems of Equations: A comparison of salaries in the nursing profession
In this project, students will discover the financial value of an education by comparing lifetime net earnings for 3 careers in nursing. They will utilize Algebra skills of writing equations, completing a table, graphing a system of equations, interpreting intercepts, and solving systems of equations. Students are amazed at the financial advantage of a few years of college on lifetime earnings--this is a great way to show students the value of higher education.
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8th - 10th, Adult Education
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Restaurant versus Home-cooked Meal...You Do the Math: Financial Literacy, Rates
Students will compare costs associated with eating out versus preparing a meal at home, including gas and tips, by determining a cost per person. This activity can be completed independently or in a group. The activity can be undertaken with or without internet access.
This is a multi-day activity, perfect for an end-of-the-year project or capstone project.
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4th - 8th, Adult Education
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AP Statistics Claw Machine Activity
This is similar to an investigative task where the students work through simulating and calculating probabilities associated with the classic claw machine game. Topics: simulation, sampling, binomial distribution, geometric distribution, confidence intervals, significance testing, probability, expected value.
Also - this packet ends with questions regarding how well a student could expect to perform on standardized assessments by guessing. This mostly uses binomial and geometric distributions.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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College Simple Interest and Balance with a Compound Interest option.
This is a great REAL LIFE math problem, that I sure as heck wish I did prior to college. Students will choose colleges and determine the interest that accrues with student loans.
Students will decide what college major they want to pursue. Then they will research schools that have that major and will decide on one to attend. They will research and answer questions about that school, including cost of attendance. From there, they will be given a problem about a student loan and will figure out th
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