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Middle school problem solving algebra resources for Microsoft Word
Combining Like Terms with Distributive Property - Scavenger Hunt
This scavenger hunt allows students to practice with combining like terms and the distributive property. There are 12 cards, a recording sheet for students and an answer key for teachers. Enjoy! **No integers!**
Item also available in my Math Scavenger Hunt - Bundle and Math Scavenger Hunts (Most Popular)
Here’s how to play:
- Post the cards all over your room.
- Split students up into groups (I typically do pairs, depending on class size).
- Have students start at any one of the cards. The ca
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Integer Project Bundle
Integer Projects Bundle
Need an integer project idea? This bundle includes 5 Integer Projects that you can use in your classroom. This is great for grades 6-8. I have used these in the past for an alternative to a written integer test. These projects are 21st century and provide real-world application. Great part about this – completely editable.
Projects Included:
-Budgeting Your Money with Integers (with rubric)
-Integer Timeline (with rubric)
-Integer Rules Comic Strip
-I am an Integer
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Algebra 1 End of the Year Project
This is a great project idea to connect topics in Algebra 1 with the real world. In the past, I have used this project as something to be presented after End of Course Exams. The students will take an Algebra 1 topic of their choice and relate to something in the real world. I have had students come back with projects on the following: Reading Music (functions with scales); Catering (conversions with recipes); Real Estate (multiple topics); Statistics of various activities or surveys (Graphs
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8th - 10th
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2024 March Mathness Madness NCAA Basketball Probability and Statistics Lesson
Every year I get my students excited about the NCAA Men's Basketball March Madness Tournament. I see articles written year after year from statisticians, sports journalist, celebrities, etc. about predicting the perfect bracket. Regardless that most have accepted it is nearly impossible, it has not deterred these enthusiast from finding an algorithm or a machine that can predict the outcomes.This packet guides students through 1) An explanation of what March Madness is all about2) A reading abou
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4th - 12th
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Engineering Design Process Template
STEM programs focus a lot of it's learning on the Engineering Design Process. This Engineering Design Process Sheet will allow students to become Engineers in the classroom. They will be able to Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, and Improve a Prototype for any Unit that they are learning about.(Made in a Microsoft Word document so that teachers can edit questions, etc.) If you would prefer an Engineering Design Process:Engineering Design Process- Digital Notebook- Click Here! Word Search- Click here!C
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in: Engineering Design Process- Bundle
Solving Equations Calendar Project
Students will create and solve equations to represent dates on a calendar month using one step equations, two step equations, equations with terms on both sides, combining like terms, and the distributive property. The answers to the equations should represent the dates on the calendar.
**Rubric for grading included!
Word document so you can easily change any formatting to fit your individual classroom.
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6th - 12th
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Movie Guides for Art Class: Abstract Episode 2 Tinker Hatfield
This is a worksheet to go with the Abstract season 1: episode 2 on Tinker Hatfield. The episode is available on Netflix and it is 42 minutes long.This is a great movie for Middle School age, Art 1 or 2, graphic design. The episode is about Tinker Hatfield who designed shoes for Nike and developed a great relationship with Michael Jordan. It really shows his artistic process and the idea of brainstorming/testing/redesigning. Kids of all ages really enjoy this - especially my non-interested bo
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Team Building Energizers - Building Classroom Community Games and Activities
This product includes forty games and activities you can play with students to build your classroom community. Each game is described thoroughly so you can successfully play them with your students! The games that are included are:
1) Hangman
2) Celebrity
3) Quick Change
4) Electricity
5) 2 Truths/1 Tall Tale
6) Human Knot
7) Lucky 6's
8) Maze
9) Helium Stick
10) Sentence Story
11) Left Out - Clumps
12) Giggles
13) Charades
14) People to People
15) Back 2 Back Drawings
16) Bippity Bipitty Bop
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Grades:
K - 9th
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End of Year Project
This EIGHT PROJECT BUNDLE (!!!!!) will keep your Algebra 1, Geometry, or Algebra 2 students busy for the last 1 - 3 weeks of school doing either independent or group projects, with or without access to technology. Projects include rubrics and grading criteria for the most part, although I sometimes just grade this with a daily participation grade rather than for correctness. Project topics include:
- Area and Perimeter -- Design Your Own Playground!
- Linear Modeling -- Human Height and Bone Le
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Grades:
8th - 12th
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Pre-Algebra Vocabulary Word Sort
Students match 14 terms with definitions and/or visual. Can scaffold by providing 1 or 2 of the clues. You cut out the words and students place them in the template on the following page. This can also be used a vocabulary station activity, or simply print out as a vocab reference tool. Terms include: variable, coefficient, constant, expression, equation, solution, evaluate, order of operations, substitution, inverse, algebra, and more.
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5th - 8th
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The Critical Thinking Toolkit: DESIGN SPRINT (Design Thinking Activity)
Give your classes the critical thinking tools and frameworks they need to think through big, complicated issues, as well as training them to reflect on their own thinking patterns and behaviours!Design Sprints are creative problem-solving tools for moving your student’s thinking forward a lot in a small amount of time (1-2 hours) by taking them through a series of timed brainstorming, feedback, and iteration sessions. The logic behind them is that it’s better to test and figure out all the thing
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: THE CRITICAL THINKING BUNDLE
Algebra 1 - Online Practice & Homework Using Microsoft Forms - Digital Learning
#DigitalLearning #RemoteLearningThis is an incredible, completely EDITABLE compilation of 72 practice/homework assignments created in Microsoft Forms. Is it intended for teachers and students who are familiar and currently use Microsoft Teams and Forms for instructional purposes. Are you a Google user? Do you and your students use Google Classroom? The proper version for you would be in this format: Algebra 1 Google Forms for the Entire School YearThe resource you will receive is a Microsoft
Inquiry Based Learning Project: CLIMATE CHANGE
An Inquiry Based Learning Project your students are going to love!Climate change has been a topic of discussion and debate, under various titles, for many decades. With an increase in droughts and flooding, ecologically forced human migration, and the melting of ice sheets globally, climate change is obviously a major issue. But if we know it's a problem, why is so hard to solve?! With the ability to look at climate change scientifically, politically, socially, economically, or any combination o
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: THE INQUIRY BASED LEARNING RESEARCH BUNDLE
Grant: Winning Proposal for LEGO Mindstorm Robotics Kits
This is a winning grant proposal to purchase LEGO Mindstorm Invention System robotics kits to use for science, physics, technology and engineering activities. A state electrical cooperation awarded $1500.00 for this grant in 2002. This proposal is customizable and can be adjusted to compensate for the variations in prices and costs of the equipment so please adjust this grant as you see necessary to meet your project needs. The customizable parts of this proposal are highlighted in yellow. The R
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Grades:
4th - 12th
Combine Like Terms and Distributive Property Worksheet
2 pages with a total of 30 problems.Combine Like terms. (12 problems)Distributive Property (12 problems)Distributive Property and combine like terms. (6 problems)Per request; key now included
Grades:
7th - 8th
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Solving Equations and Inequalities Activity (Connect the Dots)
This is an activity to help students understand solving Equations and Inequalities. The front side of the activity has a variety of problems that, when solved correctly, tell which dots to connect in order to create a hidden picture on the back! Just in case you are wondering, yes, that is in fact Harry Potter! Students enjoy trying to figure out what picture is hidden behind all the math; this is a great puzzle activity and a great “thinker!”
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7th - 10th
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Factoring Trinomials X Box Pre-Factoring Activity
Factoring trinomials using the X-Box method is the best strategy I have found to teach this concept. This worksheet has 3 pages of x-box puzzles for students to solve before learning how to factor trinomials. An answer key is also included. Download the preview file to see exactly what you will get.
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7th - 9th
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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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Math Skills Pre-Assessment for English Language Learners
This math skills pre-assessment (which was updated in March 2022) was created for newly arrived English Language Learner students so that teachers could identify any major gaps in mathematical understanding before heading straight into the grade level math content. This 100 question assessment is specifically created for students with limited English proficiency as it limits the linguistic demands that are often found in many other math assessments and contains a sample question for each section
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4th - 12th
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Algebra / 8th Grade Math Laws of Exponents Quiz or Test
This is a 40 questions quiz or test that will evaluate the student's ability to follow the laws of exponents. There are separate sections for
* Product and Quotient rules
* Power rule
* Negative exponents
As well as a combined section where the student will need to do multiply laws in the same problem.
This is done in Word so you are free to edit!
There is no answer key with this item.
Grades:
8th - 9th
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Quadratic Function Project: Catapults
Project is divided into four different sections. The first is the creation of a catapult, which my students made out of Popsicle sticks and rubber bands. The second is a paper which requires students to explain the mathematics behind a catapult. The third is the equation for the trajectory of their catapult. The last is a poster project (which i substituted for the paper and equation due to time) which allows students to transition between equations, graphs, and tables. All sections of this proj
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8th - 12th
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Editable Slope Quiz
This quiz covers finding slope from graphs, from tables, from sets of coordinate pairs and solving for y to make y=mx+b equations through a series of multiple choice and short answer questions. This quiz is editable and an answer key is is included.Related products:Slope Sorting ActivitySlope Puzzle Match
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Grades:
8th - 9th
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CCSS:
Also included in: SLOPE mini-bundle
Prime Factorization (or Factor Tree)
This activity / assessment has 16 questions where the student fills in the factor tree. It is a great way to start the kids thinking about factoring polynomials. it will also tell you who knows their multiplication tables.
The students who could do these were able to factor more easily and were more likely to be able to apply it to factoring polynomials like
x^2 + 10x +21
(x+3)(x+7)
I put in an answer key too so you could leave this with a substitute teacher :-)
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Grades:
7th - 11th
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Problem Solving Picture Cards with Solutions for Special Education
20 Problem Solving Situation Cards with Real Pictures and 2 Solution Card Choices for Each---See the preview please!
These cards are a great problem solving resource to use with special education students that are learning how to fix problems that they encounter in their daily lives, and especially at school.
An example of how to use them in your classroom is provided.
*Data Sheet and Mastery Sheets are included.
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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