SIXTEEN fun projects to get your students doing math in REAL WORLD scenarios.

Check out the BIG Project Bundle with 23 best-selling projects.

**SAVE OVER 40% OFF these projects by purchasing the bundle.

1) Fix Up the Home (Area, Conversions, Volume, and Percents)

Students work through math problems based on scenarios about purchasing and renovating a home. They have to work within a budget to choose their finishings and renovations.

2) Make a Budget Project (Percents, Proportions, Formulas, Pie Chart)

In this family budget project, students will learn how to manage their money and budget for a young family. From rent, utilities, car payments, and childcare costs, to groceries, health care, cell phones, and savings, students will keep track of where there money is going, and how much they have left over. Students will uses math skills including percents, proportions, formulas, and statistical analysis to manage their money. This is a great project to help adolescents learn about adulthood and give them REAL LIFE MATH experience!

3) Percent Project - Personal Shopper (Percents, Discounts, Taxes)

In this project, students will use their knowledge of percents, discounts, taxes, and percent change to make a good purchase. Students will work collaboratively to prepare a presentation where they will interview to become a personal shopper! Included are three different scenarios for the groups to analyze. Students will make a poster showing the mathematics behind their decision, and make a verbal argument as to why they should be chosen as the personal shopper.

Not only do students get to practice their math skills, but they learn a very valuable interpersonal lesson on how to work with others and communicate clearly. Students will also have the opportunity to practice interviewing for a job, a skill that they will need to develop for future employment.

4) Summer Road Trip (Ratios, Rates, Proportions)

Your students will use their knowledge of ratios, rates, proportions, and percents to help plan a summer road trip for “Debbie”.

Task #1 : Calculate Total Miles Traveled

Task #2: Choose Car Rental

Task #3: Snack Shopping

Task #4: Hotel Costs

Task #5: City Attractions

Task #6: Miscellaneous Expenses

5) Slopey Mountain (Linear Equations and Slope)

Algebra students will use their knowledge of slope and linear equations to complete 3 tasks:

Task 1: Ranking the Slopes

Students calculate the slopes of different ski runs to rank them from easy to hard.

Task 2: Lodge Profits

Students write and graph linear equations to calculate the profit earned from drinks in the ski lodge.

Task 3: Season Pass vs. Daily Pass

Students write equations to compare the cost of a season pass vs a daily pass over a certain number of days. Students solve and graph the system of equations to find the point where the pass becomes justified.

6) Solving Equations Mini Project - When Will I Ever Use This?

"When will I ever use this?" The famous question asked by every Algebra student. Give your students a REAL application of solving equations with this mini project!

Task: A parking lot with lampposts keeping losing power. Your students will figure out why, based on an Algebraic formula called Watt's Law. They will diagnose the issue by solving equations and make suggestions to fix the problem.

Algebra Skills:

• Solving 1-step equations.
• Substitution into a formula.
• Solving literal equations for particular variables.
• Writing and solving multi-step equations.

7) Baseball Statistics Project

Have any baseball fans in your classroom?? They will love diving into 2023 MLB data to create box and whisker plots, histograms, and frequency tables. Students get to pick which teams and compare an analyze, making the combinations (and the fun) endless!

8) Income Tax Explained For Teenagers

This is the perfect resource for your working students. Never again can a student say, "we didn't learn anything from real life, like taxes!" Walk them through the world of income tax, tax brackets, and tax forms as they calculate taxes owed after deductions in several different scenarios, and fill out their own W-4.

9) School Water Park

This Water Park project is the perfect way for your pre-algebra students to work through new topics, or your more advanced algebra and geometry students to get some mixed review! The project is broken up into 4 parts, each with different math goals:

Part 1: Design the Water Park

Math Skills: Area and Perimeter, composite shapes, percentages

Part 2: Admission Cost

Math Skills: Variable expressions, ratios, analyzing different number
scenarios to make an educated choice

Part 3: Concessions

Math Skill: Evaluating variable expressions

Park 4: Total Revenue Function

Math Skill: Writing a linear function. Graphing points from a table.

10) A Guide to Buy or Lease a Car

Sooner or later your students are going to go out in the world and need certain financial math skills. One of those is buying or leasing a car. In this resource, students will learn the following:

• Important questions to ask before buying a car

• How to calculate a car payment

• The pros and cons of leasing

• How to calculate lease payments

• Comparing buying vs leasing

Your students will be given different scenarios where they will walk through the mathematical steps of calculating the real cost of buying cars and leasing cars, and carefully comparing the two options.

11) Ratios, Rates, and Proportions (When Will I Ever Use This?)

Profession: Chef

Task: Chef Maria is preparing for a large event where she needs to serve 150 guests. While scaling up her recipe, she ensures that the ratio of spices to the main ingredient remains the same to maintain the dish’s flavor. She also adjusts proportions for different dietary needs, ensuring that vegetarian and gluten-free options stay balanced.

Objectives:

• Understand and Apply Ratios
• Calculate and Interpret Unit Rates
• Solve Proportional Relationships

12) Build a Smoothie Bar: Ratios and Unit Rates

13) World Travel Similarity Project

14) Flip the Sneakers: Percents, Expressions and Equations

15) Snowball SnackShack: Combining Like Terms and Variable Expressions

16) Trendsetter Showdown: Algebra 1 Review