Beautiful Mathematics

Students love probability using the birthday problem! What is the probability of two students in the same class sharing a birthday? Your class will probably be surprised to learn that for a group of 35, the probability that 2 members will have the same birthdate is greater than 8 out of 10. Enjoy! Please follow me to hear about new discounts, freebies and product launches. Visit my Beautiful Mathematics Store for more engaging math lessons. Provide feedback and get TPT credit on future p

Visualize the number system, linear functions, and geometric shapes with student-friendly graphic organizers, number lines, concept mapping, and paper constructions. The perfect packet for busy teachers and inquisitive students! This bundle is standards-based and designed specifically for the 8th Grade Math Common Core State Standards. This bundle includes all the lessons, notes, worksheets, & activities in my Beautiful Mathematics Store that pertain to 8th Grade Mathematics. This 8th G

Students love to explore geometry with their hands using flexagons! Flexagons are fun little strips of paper that can be flexed or folded in certain ways to reveal faces besides the original front and back. This flexagon construction allows students to construct and decorate flexagons with six hexagonal faces. This activity is great for encouraging creativity and innovation in math class. For the simpler three face version, check out my Trihexaflexagon Activity. For an added bonus, use this

What is climate change? This WebQuest will take you on a journey to investigate climate change with three fellow classmates. Each member of the group will have a specific job to do along the way: facilitator, recorder/reporter, resource manager, and team captain. Research evidence, causes, effects, and solutions for our climate change situation. Students work in groups to present research and solutions to climate change by creating some visual representations (graphic organizers, charts, i

Build a self-supporting bridge designed by Leonardo da Vinci. Students will be amazed by the ingenious simplicity of his creation! This activity is part of a STEM project collection meant to help foster creativity and innovation in relevant areas of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) as they relate to motion and modes of transportation. Please follow me to hear about new discounts, freebies, and product launches. Visit my Beautiful Mathematics Store for more engaging math lesson

Celebrate seasons and holidays in math class with these fun and festive activities! Students practice plotting coordinate points on a coordinate plane to discover various holiday themed pictures and create their own imaginative images and scenes. They trade lists of coordinates and plot partner pictures as well. After decorating these images, several lucky students may present their final art pieces to the class. Straightforward and easy to follow, this lesson incorporates a graphic organiz

Watch students explore geometry with their hands using flexagons! Flexagons are fun little strips of paper that can be flexed or folded in certain ways to reveal faces besides the original front and back. This flexagon construction allows students to construct and decorate flexagons with three hexagonal faces. This activity is great for encouraging creativity and innovation in math class. For the more challenging six face version, check out my Hexahexaflexagon Activity. For an added bonus, u

Challenge students to use creativity and innovation to design both beautiful and useful tools and projects while at the same time getting outdoors and appreciating nature! When children are allowed to freely investigate an environment, they have the opportunity to experience the pleasure of exploration, discovery, and problem solving. This Natural STEAM series of lessons and activities is meant to help foster creativity and innovation in relevant areas of science, technology, engineering, art,

Students interpret parts of an expression, such as terms, factors, and coefficients. Then, they interpret complicated expressions by viewing one or more of their parts as a single entity. Straightforward, easy to follow lesson with corresponding worksheet to combine introductory vocabulary, visual aid, guided practice, and independent practice. Please follow me to hear about new discounts, freebies and product launches. Visit my Beautiful Mathematics Store for more engaging math lessons.

Students will love puzzling out hiking destinations with this Pythagorean theorem investigation! This lesson includes a simple, visual proof of the Pythagorean Theorem followed by an activity where students use locations to determine distance and midpoint between two points. A summary at the end of class will bring home the main ideas: The coordinates of two points can be used to find the distance directly between them (both graphically and with the distance formula). The coordinates of two poi

This lesson can be given over the summer as a guide to prepare students for a typical pre-algebra course or basic math at the eighth grade level. It can also be used as a pre-assessment at the beginning of such a course to determine a student's current content knowledge. Answer key is included. Visit my Beautiful Mathematics Store for more engaging math lessons. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Students love to explore creative math activities while designing foldable constructions! Recreational math spans all sorts of activities from simple games and designs to puzzles and brainteasers that require math to solve. Not the typical “learn the formula and apply” approach, these activities use math concepts to solve problems as part of the activity itself. This bundle celebrates Martin Gardner, who for years wrote a monthly column on “recreational mathematics” for Scientific American.

Investigate motion on land, water, and air using this (soon-to-be) ten-week collection of STEM projects using the DIVE method for design challenges! This STEM project collection is meant to help foster creativity and innovation in relevant areas of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) as they relate to motion and modes of transportation. Please follow me to hear about new discounts, freebies, and product launches. Visit my Beautiful Mathematics Store for more engaging math lessons

Create and innovate with this bundle of Design Challenges, Task Cards, Graphic Organizers, and Artistic Foldables! Please follow me to hear about new discounts, freebies and product launches. Visit my Beautiful Mathematics Store for more engaging math lessons. Provide feedback and get TPT credit on future purchases: Go to your My Purchases page. Click on the Provide Feedback button beside each purchase. You will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment fo

Celebrate Thanksgiving in math class with this festive activity! Students practice plotting coordinate points on a coordinate plane to discover festive fall pictures and create their own imaginative images and scenes. They trade lists of coordinates and plot partner pictures as well. After decorating these images, several lucky students may present their final art pieces to the class. Straightforward and easy to follow, this lesson incorporates a graphic organizer to combine introductory voc

Use graphic organizers and motion problems to practice properties with polynomials. Students will create a graphic organizer to practice using general properties of real numbers within specific examples. They will use their organizers to work through additional problems including a vertical motion model for startled animals. Visit my Beautiful Mathematics Store for more engaging math lessons. Provide feedback and get TPT credit on future purchases: ***Go to your My Purchases page. Click on the

Albert Einstein, one of the most brilliant scientists of our time, produced four amazingly creative and groundbreaking discoveries in articles published during his famous Miracle Year of 1905. These articles included four important topics: light’s wave-particle duality, atomic existence, special relativity, and the mass-energy relationship, E = mc^2. This bundle includes four investigations into these four groundbreaking topics (one each). To help students organize their observations and ideas

Great visual lesson for students to interpret parts of an expression, such as terms, factors, and coefficients. Please follow me to hear about new discounts, freebies and product launches. Visit my Beautiful Mathematics Store for more engaging math lessons. Provide feedback and get TPT credit on future purchases: Go to your My Purchases page. Click on the Provide Feedback button beside each purchase. You will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment fo

Students will design graphic organizer foldables to explain how the definition of rational exponents follows from extending the properties of integer exponents to those values, allowing for a notation for radicals in terms of rational exponents. Please follow me to hear about new discounts, freebies and product launches. Visit my Beautiful Mathematics Store for more engaging math lessons. Want your students to play creatively with math? Try an activity from the Recreational Math series:Pi Day

Students graph proportional relationships, interpreting the unit rate as the slope of the graph. They then compare two different proportional relationships represented in different ways. Please follow me to hear about new discounts, freebies and product launches. Visit my Beautiful Mathematics Store for more engaging math lessons. Provide feedback and get TPT credit on future purchases: Go to your My Purchases page. Click on the Provide Feedback button beside each purchase. You will be take