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"The Great Food Truck Project" - Rate, Proportions, and Percents Unit Assessment
A rates and proportions unit project, centering around the real-world use of percentages and rates. Students work with a small group to create their own concept for a food truck, including what food and drink options they would sell. Using inspiration for "The Great Food Truck Race" and "Sharktank" TV shows, students work to create a best-selling idea, that also showcases their own values as a "company". I hope to share more information and examples of how I use this project with my upcoming y
6th - 8th
Algebra, Applied Math, Math
CCSS
7.RP.A.1
, 7.RP.A.2
, 7.RP.A.2a
+4
Calculating Discounts Card Game, Percents and Sales
Compete for the lowest grocery bill while practicing math skills! Discount Detective is a fun way for students to calculate discounts using a real world application. Each round, players draw discount cards and work to match them with items in the grocery flyer, calculating discounted costs along the way. There is also opportunity for a solo game. Great to use as an early finisher, full period game, Fun Friday, tutoring, homeschooling, summer school, or summer math prep. File includes: Game i
6th - 8th
Applied Math, Decimals, Financial Literacy
CCSS
6.NS.B.3
, 7.NS.A.1d
, 7.NS.A.2
+4
Project Based Learning: Volume and Area of Prisms and Cylinders
This cooperative project involves applying many math and language skills to a real life situation. Teams are tasked with planning an aquatic center. Specifications include rectangular and circular pools which allow students to practice older skills such as perimeter, area, and volume of rectangles and prisms, as well as newer skills such as circumference, area, and volume of circles and cylinders. Measurement conversions are integrated, as well as writing and presentation skills. A final po
6th - 8th
Applied Math, Geometry, Measurement
CCSS
7.G.B.4
, 8.G.C.9
Math Munchies Cafe: Tips, Discounts, Tax, Percents
This real life application will help your students practice finding prices after taxes, tips, and discounts. Transform your classroom into a restaurant with these easy to follow guidelines, menu, and student worksheets. Invite younger students to visit and be your customers (they will have the opportunity to practice adding decimals and making change). My students LOVE becoming waiters/waitresses in the "Math Muchies Cafe" and will have a better understanding of the never ending question of:
3rd - 8th
Applied Math, Basic Operations, Math
Percents Practice: Sale Activity
This Activity is made to help your students practice with using percentages in the real would. It includes a story to keep them engaged and allows them to make fun choices. The instructions for the activity are as follows, "You have been given 220 dollars to spend on whatever you want at a local store that is going out of business. Calculate how much each item will cost you (including tax) as you go and decide what you are going to buy. You can buy multiples of one thing!" For each item student
5th - 7th
Applied Math, Math
CCSS
6.NS.B.3
, 6.RP.A.3c
, MP1
Random Sampling of Populations, Use Data Make Inferences, Statistics 7th Grade
Students use data and statistics to gain an understanding about a population and make inferences about the population. Project Based Learning, Performance Task for Grade 7. With this activity, students will Collect and record dataAnalyze the dataMake inferences about a population from the dataMake comparisons with dataConnect the data to the real-worldDifferentiated OptionsStruggling students: Sentence starters & reduced questionsAdvanced students: Enrichment activity and connection to addit
6th - 8th
Applied Math, Math, Other (Math)
CCSS
6.SP.A.1
, 6.SP.B.5
, 6.SP.B.5a
+5
Grade 6 Percent of a Quantity Worksheet | PRINT | Cafe Pi
Looking for an engaging way to teach percent of a quantity and percent discounts in 6th grade math? In this real-world Café π activity, students calculate discount amounts, sale prices, and original prices while helping customers choose the best deals on Discount Day. This no-prep worksheet reinforces percent as a rate per 100 and builds strong ratio and rate reasoning skills aligned to 6.RP.A.3. ✅ WHAT'S INCLUDED✔ 2-page student worksheet ✔ Complete answer key ✔ Print-ready PDF 🎯 LEARNI
5th - 7th
Applied Math, Fractions, Numbers
CCSS
6.RP.A.3
, 6.RP.A.3c
Also included in: Grade 6 Ratios Bundle | Unit Rate & Proportional Reasoning | Cafe Pi
Space Cargo
SPACE CARGO is a simulation designed to increase your understanding of the economic factors involved in trading. As one of two owners and operators of a shipping company, you must become familiar with the imports and exports of the Tygondo solar system. You must also strive to understand the implications of a supply and demand of an economy so that you can run a profitable business. . You will carry out buying and selling operations throughout the planets of Tygondo. If you plan carefully, you m
5th - 12th
Applied Math, Economics
Math Lab: Sub Hunt!
If you are looking to supplement your Math curriculum with a fun and enriching activity, Math Lab: Sub Hunt! might be just what you are looking for. Utilizing the pedagogical tool known as Game Theory, this math lab has some of the elements of the classic Milton Bradley board game Battleship...but in 3 dimensions! Sub Hunt is a two-player game with a Submarine Captain, and a Mine Layer. The Mine Layer places 5 destructive mines in a 9x9x9 cubic area. The Sub Captain then navigates the vessel s
3rd - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Applied Math, Graphing, Mental Math
CCSS
6.G.A.2
, 6.G.A.4
, 6.SP.B.4
+3
Nutrition Facts Labels Math Worksheets: Real World Percent Ratio 5th 6th 7th 8th
Reading a nutrition facts label is an important life skill that involves lots of real-world math including percents, ratios, and rates! These nutrition facts labels math worksheets incorporate middle grades math skills and nutrition information for your students in 5th, 6th, 7th or 8th grade to apply their math learning to a useful everyday situation!Do you want your students to learn how to identify the healthy and not-so-healthy aspects of the foods they eat? Do you want to apply the math skil
5th - 8th
Applied Math, Family Consumer Sciences, Fractions
CCSS
6.RP.A.3
, 6.RP.A.3c
, 7.RP.A.2
+4
Financial Literacy-Intro to Credit Cards End of Year Projects
This is the perfect end of year project when you need something after testing. A great intro for students into the world of financial literacy. Takes into account percent values and can be used as a short project only a few pages or full for at least a week of work.
7th - 9th
Applied Math, Math, Other (Math)
CCSS
MP1
, MP3
Make Your Own Company
I came up with the idea of creating a company as a form of authentic intellectual work. Fortunately for me, my principal officially observed me during this particular lesson and told me later that he taught it was “exceptional”. I hope you can use it in your classroom so the students can use their creativity and learn math at the same time. There’s a broad range of mathematical value that can be associated to this lesson including, but not limited to:
Ordering decimals
Adding decimals
Subtractin
4th - 8th
Applied Math, Basic Operations, Decimals
Leaky Faucet Activity- Proportions and Unit Rates
In this hands-on activity, students will use unit rates and proportional relationships to understand an increasingly important topic - the water crisis. In the documents are ways to introduce the activity and increase student buy in. Students will set up, collect data, complete calculations, and interpret.
6th - 9th
Applied Math, Environment, Measurement
Theoretical & Experimental Probability Hands-On Math Worksheets 6th 7th 8th
Here's a ready-to-go two-page math probability worksheet for your 6th, 7th, or 8th grade probability or percentage unit! Students perform a simple, hands-on probability experiment and record both the theoretical probability and the experimental probability of events in fractions and percents. By converting fractions to percentages, students learn an easy way to compare different probabilities. How to Use:All you need are paper bags for each group filled with red, yellow, blue and green it
6th - 8th
Applied Math, Fractions, Statistics
CCSS
7.SP.C.5
, 7.SP.C.6
, 7.SP.C.7a
+2
Credit Card Interest Example Excel Spreadsheet
An easy to understand and simple way to introduce students to how credit card interest can works and how quickly debt can build up. Simply fill in the two highlighted cells with the credit card rate and how much was spent on the card and the spreadsheet will self populate to show the first 12 months, two years, three years, four years, five years, ten years, 10 years, 20 years and 25 years. A must see for all future credit card owners and a great way to show the real-life application of decimal
6th - 12th
Applied Math, Decimals, Math
Also included in: Pre-Algebra Real-Life Applications
Election Activity - Electoral College PPT/Notes/Activity - Paper & Digital
Looking for a great bell ringer activity to start class each day?Full Year of Writing/Discussion Prompts - 180 Bell RingersGet ready for the 2024 election with your students!! Used in over 2,500 classrooms, this is the most fun your students will have learning about the Electoral College! I have used this Electoral College activity over and over throughout my two decades in the classroom, and it has always been a hit; especially on an election year! [For the Google Drive version click here].
5th - 8th
Applied Math, Government, U.S. History
Also included in: Bundle: What is the Electoral College? Voting with Mystery Candidates
Renting or Buying a Home Math: Financial Literacy & Applied Math Housing Bundle
Do you want some real-world applied math worksheets and projects about renting or buying a home? How about a middle school or high school financial literacy bundle on housing math: the math involved in buying or renting a home?This Home Buying (or Renting) Math Bundle is perfect for middle school students in grade 7 or 8 or high school students in 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade. It teaches financial literacy, applied math, and life skills while using middle grades math skills: percentages, ratio
7th - 12th
Applied Math, Family Consumer Sciences, Financial Literacy
CCSS
6.NS.B.2
, 6.RP.A.1
, 6.RP.A.2
+4
Solve the Crime Scene Case! Forensic Science Investigation w/ Fingerprints & DNA
Bring your class into the world of real crime-solving with this engaging, clue-filled forensic mystery case! Perfect for late middle & high school students studying forensic science, biology, or critical thinking. What's Included:Crime Scene ReportAutopsy ReportDNA Analysis ReportFingerprint ReportToxicology ReportBlood Spatter AnalysisHair and Fiber ReportShoe Print and Footprint AnalysisDocument AnalysisTime of Death EstimationSurveillance Images and AnalysisEnvironmental and Entomology DataAl
7th - 12th
Applied Math, Biology, Forensics
REAL LIFE READY: Financial Literacy Math Simulation Project Budgeting & Careers
⭐ REAL LIFE READY: Financial Literacy Simulation Project | Budgeting, Careers, Money Management & Personal Finance | Grades 5–8REAL LIFE READY is a comprehensive financial literacy simulation project that allows students to experience the financial decisions adults make every day. Students don't just learn about money—they choose a career, calculate taxes, build a realistic budget, manage monthly expenses, respond to unexpected events, and discover how every financial decision impacts their fut
5th - 8th
Applied Math, Arithmetic, Money Math
CCSS
5.NBT.B.7
, 6.NS.B.3
, 7.EE.B.4
+5
Book About Hands-On Financial Literacy Simulations for Teens & Young Adults
These simulations come from Nick's book, "You're Gonna Need a Bigger Wallet." The book is available on Amazon for $24, or on TPT for $21 in .pdf format. The .pdf format is more ideal for teachers than the printed copies of the book because it allows for easier access to print the activities and handouts.
"You're Gonna Need a Bigger Wallet" is geared towards teachers and organizations who desire to teach personal finance skills in engaging and practical ways. Several industry experts contribute
7th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Applied Math, Business, Economics
March Madness Activities Project Based Learning BASKETBALL Math and Reading
Get your students excited about the upcoming MARCH MADNESS BASKETBALL SEASON with this fun and engaging basketball-themed project!In this activity, students will imagine being a BASKETBALL COACH and will use close reading skills and creative thinking to design their own DREAM TEAM and practice real-world math skills.Go to new depths of learning with this Project-Based Learning activity. This differentiated resource uses elements of the Design Process as well as Depth and Complexity so that stud
5th - 8th
Applied Math, Close Reading
CCSS
RI.5.1
, RI.6.1
, RI.7.1
+1
Math Survival Adventure Real-World Problem Solving Project Review
Engage your students with an exciting camping and hiking survival story where math skills save the day! In Lost in the Wilderness: A Math Survival Adventure, two friends get lost in the forest with no GPS or cellphones. To find their way to safety, they must solve real-world math problems: Estimating their location on a map using distance = speed × timeCalculating travel time to reach shelter before darkRationing water and food suppliesFiguring out medicine dosage based on weightChecking raft lo
4th - 12th
Applied Math
CCSS
6.NS.B.3
, 6.EE.C.9
, 7.EE.B.3
+5
additional mathematic picture with 70 pages key answers
This worksheets using pictures to help children count the numbers and learn how to calculate an easy maths such as additional math during their summer break from school, Learn with fun things help children to remember and understand easily with an affordable price.
PreK - 8th
Applied Math, Numbers, Other (Math)
CCSS, NGSS
K.CC.A.1
, K.CC.A.2
, K.CC.A.3
+10
Estimating Populations, Random Sampling, Inferencing from Data 7th Grade
Collecting Data & Making InferencesHands-on activity makes real-world connections to estimating populations through the capture-recapture methodStudents collect their own data of their populationUse data to make inferences about a populationPre-Teaching ToolsProblems included to pre-teach the equation used to estimate the populationPre-teaching includes a model of the equationAlso includes three practice problems to apply in independent or group practiceDifferentiated pre-teaching problems inclu
7th
Algebra, Applied Math, Statistics
CCSS
7.SP.A.1
, 7.SP.A.2
, 7.EE.B.4
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