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Transform your students into official Carnival Game Testers with this engaging, hands-on theoretical and experimental probability project for 7th grade! Students play and 5 classic carnival-style games, collect real data, and analyze their results. Using common classroom materials, this print-and-go project is everything you need to make probability meaningful, fun, and assessment-ready. Use this activity during or after your Probability unit to reinforce key concepts, assess understanding, an

Help your students explore tessellations and geometric transformations with this fun, hands-on Tessellation Math Art Project. This engaging middle school math activity gives students the chance to create their own repeating designs while practicing translation, reflection, and rotation. It also includes a tutorial video to walk students through the stencil-making process, making setup and directions even easier for you. This activity empowers students to discover the beauty of geometry by cr

Need a meaningful math activity for after state testing or summer school? This Running a Summer Camp Math Project for 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade reviews the fundamental math skills students use across middle school in a fun, real-world format, and includes both print and digital versions for easy and flexible use! With 9 print-and-go tasks, clear directions, and an engaging theme, you're ready for 3-4 days of low-stress, independent learning for the last weeks of school! Use this as a fun end-of-y

Area and Circumference of Circles Project | Design a Park & PlaygroundThis real-world project for 7th grade math places students in the role of junior park designers helping a city council plan a new community park. Working through four structured parts, students calculate the circumference and area of circular features (including a semi-circle), convert scaled measurements, calculate costs, and apply every skill in an open-ended performance task where they design their own park layout and justi

Need a meaningful math activity for after state testing or summer school? This Coffee Shop Math Project for 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade reviews the fundamental math skills students use across middle school in a fun, real-world format, and includes both print and digital versions for easy and flexible use! With 9 print-and-go tasks, clear directions, and an engaging theme, you're ready for 3-4 days of low-stress, independent learning for the last weeks of school! Use this as a fun end-of-year review,

This 6th grade geometry project is an engaging, project based learning (PBL) resource where students apply area, perimeter, surface area, and volume of rectangular prisms to redesign zoo animal enclosures. They evaluate animal habitats, calculate measurements, redesign enclosures, build a 3D tank model from a net, and create a scaled zoo map on the coordinate plane based on real AZA Guidelines. Use this week-long project as a full project-based learning activity, an end-of-unit performance tas

6th Grade Statistics Project | Island Paradise Data Analysis & Math Performance Task.Take your students on a tropical getaway while mastering data displays and analysis! This 'Island Paradise Statistics Project' is a comprehensive, multi-part math performance task designed to give 6th-grade students hands-on experience with real-world data. Students will apply their knowledge of measures of center, measures of variability, and data displays to make informed decisions for a fictional island reso

Looking for engaging end of year math activities for middle school that still review important math skills? This End of Year Math Projects Bundle for 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade includes 10 real-world math projects that help students stay focused and motivated during the last weeks of school. If your students are checked out after testing, tired of worksheets, or need a more creative way to review, this bundle is a great fit. These projects give students the chance to apply math throu

This real-world project challenges 7th grade students to apply ratios, unit rates, proportions, and scale in a hands-on, engaging way. Students will take on the role of food truck owners preparing for the Sweet Street Festival. They’ll select a dessert recipe from a given list, calculate a scale factor to serve 75 customers, determine unit prices, apply a price markup, and analyze their total cost, revenue, and profit. Plus, they will design their Food Truck, logo, and slogan! Use this project

Help your students review key middle school math skills with this fun, real-world Plan a Summer BBQ Math Project for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade! Students take on the role of a BBQ party planner and must budget, shop, measure, calculate, compare, and design. With 8 print-and-go tasks, creative activities, and an engaging theme, you're ready for 2-3 days of low-stress, independent review. Two creative standout tasks make this project especially memorable: students build and compare two drink cooler

In this hands-on project, students take on the role of cake designers while applying their knowledge of surface area and volume of prisms, cylinders, spheres, and cones to create, budget, and present a custom cake. Students will plan their design, calculate surface area for icing and volume for batter, and compare costs to a set budget before completing a final presentation. It’s the perfect blend of real-world math, creativity, and problem-solving. Suitable for 7th grade and 8th grade, this p

7th Grade Comparing Cell Phone Plans Project | Expressions, Equations & Inequalities This real-world project for 7th grade math places students in the role of junior analysts helping a family choose the best cell phone plan. Working through four structured parts, students write algebraic expressions for each plan's cost, solve two-step equations, write and solve inequalities, and apply every skill in an open-ended performance task where they recommend a cell phone plan and justify their choice u

In this hands-on math project, students show their understanding of the distributive property by creating an illustrated poster with real-world examples. This is one of those projects that finally makes the distributive property click for students. Instead of just solving problems, they show what’s happening - by drawing, labeling, and creating their own word problems. This project works well as a guided activity, assessment task, end of the year project, or a break from worksheets! Included: •

Your students will love this fun & engaging project for your 8th Grade Equations Unit!This project finds your students on a journey through solving multi-step equations. Beginning with "Take-Off" (solving two-step equations review), students will explore the world of Distributing & Combining Like Terms as well as Variables on Both Sides. The journey ends with solving multi-step equations using all techniques. No Prep - just print and go!This project took my 8th grade students 2, 50-minute les

Make surface area and volume fun with this end of year project for 7th grade and 8th grade! This Surface Area and Volume Sandcastle Design Project gives middle school students an engaging way to apply geometry skills through building, measuring, calculating, and designing. Students create a sandcastle model using 3D shape nets, calculate the surface area and volume of their shapes, and finish by drawing a scaled blueprint of their final design. This printable geometry project is a creative an

This bundle of low-prep, high-impact projects for 6th grade math combine creativity with rigorous, standards-aligned practice. Each project is designed to keep the class focused, wrap up a unit topic, and offer an engaging alternative to traditional review. Covering essential topics like ratios, equations, geometry, statistics, fractions, and the coordinate plane, this is a flexible, classroom-tested collection you can use all year long! Each project includes clear instructions, teacher guides,

This mega bundle of low-prep, high-impact math projects for Grades 6–8 combines creativity with rigorous, standards-aligned practice. With over 20 engaging projects spanning three full grade levels, this collection is packed with hands-on tasks that are easy to. Covering essential topics across all major domains — including ratios and proportions, number systems, expressions & equations, geometry, probability, and statistics — this flexible collection is perfect for review, enrichment, early fin

Need a meaningful math activity for your slope or linear equations unit? This Slope Waterslide Design Project aimed for 8th Grade gives middle school students a fun, real-world way to practice calculating slope, graphing linear equations, creating tables of values, and explaining mathematical reasoning through an engaging waterslide design challenge! Students are “hired” by Splash City Waterpark to classify existing waterslides and design two new waterslide experiences. They’ll calculate estima

Make integers meaningful with this adding and subtracting integers math project and interactive integer games for 6th and 7th grade! Students will practice positive and negative numbers through real-world sports scenarios including football yards gained and lost, golf scores above and below par, hockey plus/minus ratings, and basketball point differentials. These activities give students a fun way to calculate and understand integers. They will love the sports theme and game-based elements, and

This bundle of low-prep, high-impact projects for 7th grade math combine creativity with rigorous, standards-aligned practice. Each project is designed to keep the class focused, wrap up a unit topic, and offer an engaging alternative to traditional review. Covering essential topics like integers, percents, probability, proportions, equations, surface area, and circles, this is a flexible, classroom-tested collection you can use all year long! What’s Included:Fun & Games Probability Project – Ex