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Hidden Figures is the perfect movie for the end of the year, Black History Month, or a movie afternoon in math class, and this Hidden Figures movie math and viewing guide activity is just right for middle or high school! The worksheets include story-related math questions, a comprehension question viewing guide, and discussion questions, and characterization and growth mindset worksheets. The resource includes ten movie math questions based on Hidden Figures, which are aligned with the sixth gra

This shopping percents and discounts project based learning (PBL) activity is perfect to wrap up your percents unit! Students spend a day at their favorite stores in the mall, equipped with coupons to help them save money. Students must calculate savings, new prices, sales tax, and even tips using their knowledge of percents and discounts. This resource can be used in a variety of ways, including whole-group instruction, independent practice, as a cooperative assignment, or even chunked into sma

Are you in need of the perfect first day of school math activity for middle school? These back to school middle school math activities are perfect for grades 5, 6, 7, and 8. They include an ice breaker, getting to know you survey, web quest, and other activities perfect for the first week back to school. What's included?- My Math Mindset: A student questionnaire that gives you a glimpse into the student's thoughts on math, their interests, and possible supports. This honest and insightful

This Super Bowl 2026 Math activity is perfect for football lovers! It uses real-world statistics to compare the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl LX and asks students to form their opinion of the better team. Skills learned in early middle school are used to compare the quarterbacks, offensive stats, defensive stats and season records of New England and Seattle. Some of the skills assessed include measures of central tendency, decimals, fractions, percents, ratios, and pr

These "words that mean" math operations key word posters are perfect for word problems and helping students know when to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. It includes all four operations, along with common words and phrases that signal each operation. Each operation can be printed on your choice of colored paper or cardstock, laminated, and displayed on your wall or bulletin board. Also included are the letters to cut and print "Words that mean.." In addition to the posters, there is a stu

This Home Alone Christmas and Holiday movie math activity is perfect for your middle school class before winter break! It includes ten chronological, time-stamped questions for students to answer, using what they have learned in math. Topics included are percents, decimals, proportions, rates, and multi-digit multiplication. This resource is geared toward middle school, and includes only topics learned in early sixth grade. In addition to the movie questions, students have an activity in whi

This Pythagorean Theorem activity is perfect to use as a real-world PBL for students to explore how the Pythagorean Theorem fits into everyday life! Your math students will be engaged as they explore rollercoasters around the country to determine the length of parts of a triangle using the Pythagorean Theorem! Students use the vertical drop and horizontal distance traveled to determine the length on the tracks of ten different coasters. They will love seeing coasters they might be familiar wit

Looking for an engaging November math resource? This Thanksgiving Dinner Math Project Based Learning Activity is perfect for a middle school review or festive activity! Students practice fractions, decimals, proportions, and more while relating it to their own Thanksgiving experience. Students are asked to help plan their Thanksgiving celebration, from the menu and shopping to the prep, table setting, cooking, and entertaining. It highlights skills that have all been learned by early middle s

This March Madness math activity asks students to determine mean, median, mode, and range for a variety of actual statistics from previous NCAA March Madness basketball tournaments. Perfect to excite any sports enthusiasts! It includes both print and digital formats, perfect for Google Classroom. Each page slide within the activity is dedicated to a different statistic (for example, years since previous championships amongst winners, regular season wins amongst Elite 8 teams, Seeds of Champion

These Super Bowl Math activities for 2026 are perfect to cheer on the Patriots or the Seahawks! Your football fans will love comparing the two teams to determine a winner, and finding the measures of central tendency for real NFL stats from the 2025 season. In Super Bowl Math: Comparing Two Teams, students pit the Patriots and Seahawks against one another to predict a winner. They analyze real-world statistics from this season, including offensive statistics, defensive stats, quarterback exper

Looking for a way to share the 2026 FIFA World Cup with your social studies students? This guided research project and presentation lets students choose one of the 48 participants of this year's tournament and helps them research and create a Google Slides presentation on their country. Students are asked to choose one of the countries represented in this year's World Cup tournament and then given a series of guided points to research. There are five pages included, asking students to learn ab

This real-world Black Friday Math activity is perfect for before Thanksgiving or use with your percents and discounts unit! Students explore real Black Friday ads and use their knowledge of percents and discounts to answer questions about prices, tax, savings, and more. Four stores are included, with a myriad of different items. This resource is perfect for engaging students in the days before Thanksgiving vacation, and ties in perfectly with a percents and discounts unit. It is also a gre

Are you looking for the perfect lesson on comparing and ordering fractions, decimals, and percents? This compare and order rational numbers lesson covers all the bases on converting to one form and comparing fractions, decimals and percents. It provides plenty of practice for mastery and includes lesson notes, guided practice, independent work, word problems, and more! What's included?Lesson Notes: These cloze notes are perfect to engage students. They will pay close attention, needing to

Are you a football lover looking to bring a Super Bowl party into your classroom? These Super Bowl 2026 activities are sure to keep your kids engaged in the days leading up to the big game! Perfect for football lovers getting ready for the Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks. Included in this resource:Reading Passage & Comprehension QuestionsSuper Bowl Themed Web QuestPlayer Research ActivityWord SearchNFL Helmet Design ActivityWould You Rather CardsThe web que

Do you and your students love March Madness? This 2026 NCAA March Madness bracket is made interactive for Google Sheets and has everything you need for some friendly competition in the classroom! Students use drop-down menus to choose the winner for each game, and subsequent games populate based on their responses. Students can compete with one another, and compute their scores after each round based on standard NCAA bracket scoring rules. Included is a leaderboard, a Google Form for reportin

This real-world baseball math statistics project asks students to determine mean, median, mode, and range for a variety of actual statistics from the 2023 Major League Baseball season. Perfect to excite any sports enthusiasts! It includes both a traditional print option and a digital version, made for Google for any 1:1 classrooms! Each slide within the activity is dedicated to a different statistic (for example, strikeouts amongst Cy Young candidates, or homeruns amongst MVP candidates). Stu

Looking for an engaging enrichment activity in your middle school math class? These Christmas logic puzzles and brain teasers are perfect for middle school and the entire month of December! They are great for problem solving enrichment and will keep your students engaged for Christmas! The resource includes six separate puzzles in which students must use their problem solving skills. These activities are perfect to round out the week before holiday vacation, and can be used as a math station, fo

Looking for an engaging Christmas research project this December or Christmas? This Christmas Around the World guided, web-quest style research project and presentation is exactly what you need to engage your students and keep them practicing their skills. Students are asked to choose a country and answer provided questions about the celebration of Christmas in that country. Some of the information they are required to find includes traditional gift giving and food customs in that country, as

Looking for some problem solving to add to the end of the year? These summer logic puzzles and brain teasers are perfect for middle school and the end of the year! They are great for problem solving enrichment and will keep your students engaged before summer break! The resource includes six separate puzzles in which students must use their problem solving skills. These activities are perfect to round out final month of school, and can be used as a math station, for early finishers, separatel

This summer vacation themed Would You Rather game is perfect for end of the year brain breaks, movement breaks, and after testing fun! It includes 20 End of the Year this or that questions perfect for the months of May and June, plus a blank template for you to create your own. This resource is designed for Google Slides. To use, each slide is displayed on the smartboard, and students must either sit or stand, based on their preference between the two activities or items. This set is perfect