Hi, I’m Shawn! Here on TPT I like to share fun and engaging math activities to help all kids love math and rigorous lessons and assessments to help kids grow. I’m certified to teach math grades 7-12.
This 8th grade math review activity will help your students review geometric transformations of rotations, reflections, dilations, translations in a fun escape room format. Students will also test their knowledge of properties of similar and congruent figures. Do your kids like playing video games? Then they will love this escape room. They will use their skills to answer questions that will allow them to escape a dungeon, work their way through a labyrinth, and even defeat the angry meatball,
This bundle includes all the lessons, activities, and assessments needed to teach a unit on solving equations for 8th grade math students. Each lesson includes a video lesson, guided notes, homework, and worked out solutions.Each assessment includes a practice assessment, normal assessment, and challenge assessment.Activities review a variety of skills from the unit.You get all unit resources at 20% off. Purchase now and you also get any future updates and new resources free without having to pu
In this linear equation line art graphing review activity, students will identify the slope and y-intercept from an equation then graph each of the lines on the provided graph space. This line art activity is a nice chill activity to review graphing the equation of a line. Then they will color the design making something like a stained glass window. Hang them around your class and let the colors brighten you day! For this activity students should be able to: identify the slope and y-intercept fr
This is a rigorous, standards-based mid unit quiz for inequalities. This 13 question inequalities assessment is made to reflect the difficulty of a state test exam. For this test students should be able to: Write inequalities from a word problem and graphSolve and graph a one-step inequality using addition and subtractionSolve and graph a one-step inequality using multiplication and divisionUnderstand how multiplying and dividing by a negative number changes the direction of the inequalitySol
In this whodunit crime solving activity your students will answer questions about the line of best fit of a scatter plot to help the police find who murdered their math teacher. Included are easy to follow directions to customize the suspect list to members from your own classes. Included are 2 versions of the worksheet:The No Setup version. This version has no setup required, but the story is more general and random students names are already put in. This will work in a pinch, but is not as e
In this exponent rules (laws of exponents) no prep review activity your students will practice all their skills from this unit. Students will use their answers to fill in the blanks at the bottom of the page revealing the punchline to the joke. In 16 total questions students will practice the following skills: Sum of powers property x^2·x^5 = x^7Power of a powers property (3m^8)^6 = 3^6 m^48Division of powers property h^8/h^2 = h^6Negative exponent property g^-4 = 1/g^4Zero exponent property y^0
This matching activity will have students writing the equations of linear functions into slope-intercept form. Then they will match functions represented in different formats that have the same equation. This is a great review of not only functions, but also the equations of a line, slope, y-intercepts, etc. Skills the students will practice:Writing the equation of a line from a linear function.Finding Slope of a line from a graph, an equation, a table, a mapping diagram, and a word problemFind
This fun activity is a great way to help your students review how to solve multi-step inequalities. This 30 question worksheet will have students solve 1-step and multi-step inequalities with variables on one side and both sides. Students will practice the following skills: Solve one-step, two-step, and multi-step inequalities with variables on one side with multiplying and dividing by a negativeSolve inequalities with variables on both sides with one problem involving an inequality with no sol
This bundle for 8th grade math students in Algebra and Pre-algebra contains all the lessons, activities, and assessments needed to teach these courses. This bundle contains:All 65 lessons each for Algebra and Pre-Algebra. Each has a lesson file in Google Slides, a lesson practice/homework, and a full length video of me teaching the lessonAll assessments for each of the unitsAll activities for all of the unitsAll State Test prep activitiesTHIS IS A GROWING BUNDLE! All new resources will be contin
This is a rigorous, standards-based end of unit test for solving equations covering the skills of solving one, two, and multi step equation. These 12 solving equations questions are made to reflect the difficulty of a state test exam. For this assessment students should be able to: solve an equation with one variablewrite an equation from a word problemknow if an equation has one solution, no solution, or infinitely many solutionssolve equations with variables on both sidescross multiply a prop
In this unique exponent rules (laws of exponents) review activity, students will use their knowledge of simplifying exponential expressions to create a WANTED poster of a traveling salesman that sold a whole town a bad elixir that made them talk in math problems. The skills the students will practice during the 20 question with this activity are: Sum of powers property x^2·x^5 = x^7Power of a powers property (3m^8)^6 = 3^6 m^48Division of powers property h^8/h^2 = h^6Negative exponent property g
This 8th grade math review activity will help your students review solving one, two and multi step equations in a fun video game format that runs on all devices. Do your students like playing video games? Then they will love this escape room. Your student will use their skills to answer questions that will allow them to escape from the house of Nikola Tesla. Gather clues, unlock safes and find secret passages all in the hopes of escaping. TRY THE DEMO!!You can try the game yourself: HERE. It wi
In this functions lesson, teach your 8th grade students how to compare linear functions! Includes lesson, guided notes, instructional video, and homework problems. Perfect for your middle or high school math class. The lesson and accompanying guided notes includes 21 problems that teach a full lesson including problem solving/application of the skills learned in the lesson. The skills covered in this lesson are: Identify rate of change and initial value form a given scenarioWriting the equatio
In this inequalities cut and paste activity, students will test their knowledge of multi-step and compound inequalities. Students will solve 12 inequalities and match the original problem with its solution and its graph. My students love putting away their iPad for a day and break out the scissors and glue sticks. Students will test their knowledge of: Solving multi-step inequalities with one variableSolving compound inequalities with one variableMatching the solutions to inequalities with the g
This bundle includes all the lessons, activities, and tests needed to teach a unit on the geometric transformations (rotation, reflection, translation, dilation, and properties of similar and congruent figures) for 8th grade math students. Each lesson includes a video lesson, guided notes, homework, and worked out solutions.Each assessment includes a practice assessment, normal assessment, and challenge assessment.Activities review a variety of skills from the unit.You get all unit resources at
This is a review of skills on two-way tables for 8th grade math students. For this review students should be able to: Read and find values in a two-way frequency tableCreate a two-way table from data and from a storyThis worksheet contains 4 questions with multiple parts giving a total of 23 questions the students have to complete. All graphs are clear and easy to read. No Prep Needed! All files come as ready to use PDFs. Questions too easy or too hard? Want to edit the lesson? All files come
This fun activity will help your students review the polynomial operations of add, subtract and multiply. Problems include order of operations on polynomial expressions. Students will practice the following skills: Add polynomials by combining like termsSubtract polynomials using like termsMultiply monomials and polynomialsApply order of operations with combinations of addition, subtraction and multiplicationThis connect the dots activity will keep your kids guessing what the shape is until the
ZThis bundle includes all the lessons, activities, and assessments needed to teach a unit on exponent rules for 8th grade math students. All lessons includes a video lesson, guided notes, homework, and worked out solutions.All assessments includes a practice assessment, normal assessment, and challenge assessment.Activities review a variety of skills from the unit.You get all unit resources at 20% off. Purchase now and you also get any future updates and new resources free without having to purc
In this scatter plot lesson students will learn how to describe and construct scatter plots. Includes lesson, guided notes, instructional video, and homework problems. Perfect for your middle or high school math class. The lesson and accompanying guided notes includes 13 problems that teach a full lesson including problem solving/application of the skills learned in the lesson. The skills covered in this lesson are: Identify scatter plots with linear, nonlinear, positive, negative, and no corr
This is a comprehensive review of skills on scatter plots and line of best fit. These rigorous questions are aligned with the statistics (scatter plots and line of best fit) CCSS. For this review students should be able to: Identify scatter plots with linear, nonlinear, positive, negative, and no correlationConstruct scatter plots from given dataLocate and identify gaps, clusters, and outliers from a scatter plotWrite the equation of the line of best fit for a scatter plotUse the line of best f
Hi, I’m Shawn! Here on TPT I like to share fun and engaging math activities to help all kids love math and rigorous lessons and assessments to help kids grow. I’m certified to teach math grades 7-12.
Teaching style
My main goal is to keep kids engaged with rigorous, but entertaining activities . Math is hard enough without students losing focus. By keeping activates fun and relevant, students will want to complete them and learn along the way.
Awards & shining teacher moments
For many years now I have been rated by the state of Pennsylvania as "very highly effective" in my classroom across multiple school districts, both inner city and more rural. This puts me in the top 15% of 8th grade math teachers in the state.
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