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$Real-Life Math Volumes 1 and 2$

Real-Life Math Volumes 1 and 2

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The quickest way to get your students engaged in math in a deep and meaningful way is to use authentic instruction that relates math to the real world. Preferably the real world math should involve real world interests that students actually care

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Math, Algebra, Order of Operations

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Graphing Your Story Lesson and Worksheet

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In this Real-Life math lesson students will interpret graphs to find the story that the graph is telling and then make their own graph and story using an event in their own life. Students will love a lesson that allows them to see how math can tell

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Math, Algebra, Graphing

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5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

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The Danger of Credit Cards

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Description: Students will use integers to explore the dangers of credit cards. Students will "shop" and then learn what happens to your debt when you only make minimum monthly payments. Common Core Standard: 7.NS.1 (primary), 7.NS.2 (primary),

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Applied Math, Numbers, Other (Math)

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5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

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7.NS.A.1, 7.NS.A.2, 7.NS.A.3

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$Complete Lesson Collection - 62 Lessons 298 pages$

Complete Lesson Collection - 62 Lessons 298 pages

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Every lesson that Make Math More has ever created in one GIANT PDF download! 62 lessons and 298 Pages worth of real-life, engaging math activities. That makes it only $0.75 per lesson. Lesson Plans and Student Guides are included for every lesson.

Subjects:

Math, Applied Math

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4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

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CCSS:

7.G.A.1, 7.G.A.2, 7.G.A.3, 7.G.B.4, 7.G.B.5, 7.G.B.6, 8.G.A.3, 8.G.A.5, 8.G.B.6, 8.G.B.7, 8.G.B.8...

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$Real-Life Math Volume 1$

Real-Life Math Volume 1

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Subjects:

Math, Algebra, Fractions

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5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

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$The Business of Math$

The Business of Math

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Description: Students will create a business and a product to "sell" and perform algebraic math to calculate revenue, sales, profit, and other necessary business calculations with variable products sold. Common Core Standard: 7.EE.1,

Subjects:

Algebra, Applied Math, Other (Math)

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

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Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

7.EE.A.1, 7.EE.A.2

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Box Design Challenge

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Description: Students work together to discover how many different boxes can be made and what sized box will be the cheapest to package a new toy ooze in. Students will be comparing the volume and surface area of the boxes along the way and gaining

Subjects:

Geometry, Measurement, Other (Math)

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

7.G.B.6

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Dream Room

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Description: In this lesson students will design the floor plan for a dream bedroom using a scale factor. Common Core Standard: 7.G.1 Materials: None Student Learning Goals: (1) Students will be able to use a scale factor to convert actual

Subjects:

Applied Math, Geometry, Other (Math)

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

7.G.A.1

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Winning A Game With Probability

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Description: Students will play a game based on chance involving dice. They will then try to determine a strategy to win based on the probability of the dice rolls. Can the students find a better way to win? Common Core Standards: 7.SP.6 (and

Subjects:

Applied Math, Fractions, Other (Math)

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

7.SP.C.6

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Creating and Cracking the Code

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Description: Students will create a secret message and encrypt it with algebraic concepts. They will then have a partner decrypt it and figure out their secret message. Common Core Standard: 7.EE.4 (and others) Materials: None Student Learning

Subjects:

Algebra, Applied Math, Other (Math)

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

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Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

7.EE.B.4

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Boys vs. Girls

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Description: Students collect data and compare the differences between boys and girls to gain new insights. A mathematically tame battle of the sexes. Common Core Standard: 7.SP.4 (and others) Materials: Measuring device (optional) Student

Subjects:

Other (Math), Statistics

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

7.SP.B.4

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Discovering Pi

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Description: Students discover where pi comes from by measuring the circular features of everyday objects. Common Core Standard: 7.G.4 (and others) Materials: Ruler that can measure in millimeters, circular objects Student Learning Goals: (1)

Subjects:

Applied Math, Geometry, Other (Math)

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

7.G.B.4

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Geometry Everywhere

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Description: Students will observe what 3-Dimensional shapes make up the world around them - they will surprised at what they find! They will then make the shapes and discover the cross sections inside. Common Core Standard: 7.G.3 (and

Subjects:

Applied Math, Geometry, Other (Math)

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

7.G.A.3

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$Real-Life Math Volume 2$

Real-Life Math Volume 2

By Make Math More

Subjects:

Math, Algebra, Order of Operations

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Lesson

$14.99

$11.99

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We Built This City

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Students will design a city layout on their graph paper. They will also be responsible for giving a “tour” of their city. Through these two activities, students will work on locating and reading coordinate pairs, as well as determining the distance

Subjects:

Math

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

6.NS.C.8

$2.99

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Positive and Negatives of Bungee Jumping

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Students will simulate bungee jumping with a rubber band and washer to look at the positive and negative direction the rubber will spring. The hands-on and visual aspects of the lesson allow students to see the relationship of integers to 0. Student

Subjects:

Math

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

6.NS.C.5, 6.NS.C.6, 6.NS.C.6a, 6.NS.C.6b, 6.NS.C.6c, 6.NS.C.7, 6.NS.C.7a, 6.NS.C.7b, 6.NS.C.7c, 6.NS.C.7d

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Bake Sale Business

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Students will work towards a goal of raising money through a bake sale. Using equations and inequalities students will determine the costs, set pricing, and create a monetary goal. Includes lesson plan and student guide. Created for CCS 6.EE.5,

Subjects:

Math

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

6.EE.B.5, 6.EE.B.6, 6.EE.B.7, 6.EE.B.8

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What Drives You?

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Students will determine how many miles their future vehicle will accrue and analyze the cost of certain cars based on initial cost and gas mileage. Using decimal operations, students will gain some understanding into what it costs to drive certain

Subjects:

Math

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

6.NS.B.3

$2.99

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Vacation Get Away

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Students will use a website to find a 1-week vacation rental. Their task is to take the rental price and divide it by varying amounts of friends (working on dividing from 2 through 15), ultimately deciding how many people to bring on their trip. The

Subjects:

Math

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

6.NS.B.2

$2.99

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Summer Hangin'

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Students will use Least Common Multiple (LCM) and Greatest Common Factor (GCF) to make a summer schedule with set amounts of days between each activities and find out how often they will meet up with friends who do the same activity. Student Guide

Subjects:

Math

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

6.NS.B.4

$2.99

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

8 years Teacher Middle Grades Math Speaking At Multiple Conferences About Real-LIfe Based Instruction

MY TEACHING STYLE

I use a variety of styles in my room from direct instruction, groupings, inquiry based learning, and more - but the key is I always try to incorporate real-life math and try to show my students where math is in their real world.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Spoken at Ohio Council of Teaching Math conference to a standing room only room. Spoken at Battelle's Great Teachers Make Great Schools Conference Spoken at Association for Middle Level Education National Conference.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Ma.Ed. in Instructional Technology completed in 2010 Ba.Ed. in Mathematics Instruction for grades 4-9 completed in 2006

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

I love: Jesus, my wife, sons and daughter, teaching, creating, technology, web design, and all apple products.

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4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

SUBJECTS

Math, Algebra, Applied Math, Fractions, Geometry, Graphing, Measurement, Numbers, Order of Operations, Other (Math), Arts & Music, Statistics

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