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Materials Needed: A bag of plain M & M's for each student (or group of students) Handout for each student Discussion before the bags are opened: 1. How many M & M's are in each bag? 2. How many of each color? 3. Will all 6 colors be in each bag? 4. Which color will occur the most? the least? Extension: Have students to research the Mars company official percentages for each color. In this activity, students find the probability of choosing a particular color M & M given the number of M & M's in

This Geometry Scavenger Hunt sends students outside and around their school or neighborhood to find examples of geometry in the real world. This project is perfect for the beginning of the year to introduce vocabulary OR at the end of the year to review various topics! You can customize this scavenger hunt project to find as many students real-life representations as you would like! **Can be used as an online activity or group project. You can earn FREE TPT money by leaving reviews on any paid

This is an activity to see how tall objects are using indirect measurement. After working the 3 problems for practice, then head outside to measure how tall the school's flagpole is. We are using indirect measurement as an application of trig functions. **can be used as a group project for measuring other tall items outdoor Materials needed for activity: • Tape Measure • Clinometer/hypsometer • Measuring tape Answers to worksheet: Example: 10 m 1. 15.5 ft 2. 19.3 m You can earn FREE TPT money b

Use this contest to encourage excitement for celebrating Pi Day. Print out the sheet and give to your students a month in advance. They can do their design on this sheet or go to a t-shirt design website if they prefer. Allow enough time for the t-shirts to be produced in time for your Pi Day party. *Can be used as a school wide contest. **You can earn FREE TPT money by leaving reviews on any paid resources! You will see the balance show up the next time you check out! Also, be sure to check ou

This project is perfect for introducing Circles OR at the end of the chapter of Circles to review! Could also be used when studying probability & statistics. You can customize this project to however you would like! Could ask students to make their graphs using Google Sheets as well. **Can be used as an online activity or group project. You can earn FREE TPT money by leaving reviews on any paid resources! You will see the balance show up the next time you check out! Also, be sure to check out

Use as independent work, project, or part of discovery before teaching the Triangle Sum Theorem in class. Great hands on work for students to become familiar with this theory. Students will discover through this activity that the angles of triangles always add up to 180 degrees. Students will tear off the corners of one of the triangles and arrange the corners on the straight line to show that the sum of the angles equals a straight line or 180 degrees. They will then glue the torn triangle on

Activity for the students to be creative leading up to Pi Day celebration. You can earn FREE TPT money by leaving reviews on any paid resources! You will see the balance show up the next time you check out! Also, be sure to check out my teaching videos at this link: https://www.youtube.com/user/318830wright/videos

List of the B's for classroom rules. Can be enlarged for the classroom display or used as a handout to give to students to be put into their notebook. Completely editable to be used for your classroom. You can earn FREE TPT money by leaving reviews on any paid resources! You will see the balance show up the next time you check out! Also, be sure to check out my teaching videos at this link: https://www.youtube.com/user/318830wright/videos