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Free word problems simulations
Perimeter and Area Real World Task
This task asks students to pretend they have been hired by a home improvement company to solve two problems for them. The first job requires students to examine the relationship between perimeter and area to help "Mr. Baker" design his garden. The second job focuses students on applying their understanding of area to help a family tile their kitchen. Let me know if you like it and I will upload some more tasks.
Task by Shawn Walk
Perimeter and Area Real World Task by Shawn Walk is licensed u
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4th - 6th
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Unit Rate and Percent Project: Duct Tape Pencil Pouch Business Plan
This project asks students to form a fictitious business selling duct tape pencil pouches. Students complete a variety of math problems calculating the cost to produce the pouches, cost of labor, determining profit, setting selling prices, and creating manufacturers suggested retail prices.
What math is involved?
-Finding area of a rectangle (decimal or fraction)
-Finding unit rate and unit price
-Using percent of a number to determine profit/cost
-Decimal and whole number computational skil
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6th - 8th
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Planning a Valentine Party: Project Based Learning
Engage your students in relevant math with a Valentine theme. Students use price sheets and quantities to plan for and budget for a Valentine Party. They also use measurement conversion skills to plan for decorations for the party. Time is also integrated into this project as students plan for party activities. This project can be done as an independent activity, or even as sub-plans if you find yourself in a pinch. If you like this activity, check out my other Project Based Learning produc
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3rd - 5th
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Volume of Rectangular Prisms Hands on Activity
This hands on activity is student centered and student led and allows the students to investigate and discover volume of rectangular prisms. For this activity, the students can use snap cubes to complete the project. There is a hint on the bottom of the project to help the students complete it. For this project, the teacher is just there to facilitate and give leading questions. The students can work in teams and arrive at the correct answer in many ways.
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6th - 9th
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Independent Living Skills Scenarios- Money Management and Cost of Living
PART 1 IN MY INDEPENDENT LIVING SKILLS ACTIVITIES!! Independent Living Skills activities including calculating wages from hourly salary and calculating cost of living.This download includes the following:IN THE NIK OF TIME Cover Page (1 page)How To Use (1 page)Independent Living Skills Scenarios- Money Management (2 pages)Independent Living Skills- Cost of Living (1 page)Independent Living Skills Scenarios- Money Management Answer Key (2 pages)In completing the Independent Living Skills Scenario
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6th - 12th
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Choose Your Own Math-venture: Superhero, Episode 1 (order of operations)
Choose Your Own Math-venture is a mathematical gamebook where students are transformed into superheroes, solving equations using order of operations 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 order of operations will help them make the best choices. This series of student-selected adventuring can be used to improve engagement, assess understanding, and/or support instru
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4th - 6th
Also included in:Â Choose Your Own Math-venture: Superhero (order of operations)
Mall Math Marathon: Classroom Edition
Give your students a taste of real world math in your very own classroom! ROCKmath has turned the Mall Math Marathon into a Classroom Edition by giving ideas on how to bring consumer math to your students without having to leave the school!
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Not Grade Specific
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Links to Math Sites
This is an extensive list of math websites that I used in my classroom. There are also educational games that are included in the list.
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5th - 8th
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Animated addition powerpoint show
A straightforward color-coded addition presentation.
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
Pendulums Investigation
This is an activity designed to allow students to work with the length and period of a simple pendulum as an application of a square root function.
Students use online resources to find the function that relates the period and length of a pendulum, then use this information to answer a series of questions. The activity culminates with an experiment in which students build and test their own simple pendulum and compare their results with the results predicted by the function.
This activit
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10th - 11th
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CCSS:
Two Digit Multiplication CCSS Enhanced Practice
In our school district we have adopted Pearson Envision for our Math program. The topic tests have been enhanced yet we have a need for practice on the format of the test. This worksheet helps students understand the expectations of the enhanced test scoring (rubric included) through through strategic academic vocabulary and higher level Bloom's Taxonomy, DOK, or Depth of Knowledge responses.
Grades:
4th
Wonder Problems Rock!
Hook your 5th grade math students at the beginning of each lesson with these real world problems that make them think. These can be taken from your every day life and modified to use in whatever math unit you are currently teaching. My students love these!
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5th
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