Math Down Under

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

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

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

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

This 6th grade fast finishers worksheet bundle is your go-to solution for independent work, state testing, intervention groups, and sub plans. With 40 no-prep worksheets, early finishers stay quietly engaged while reviewing essential math skills. Each page is standards-aligned and mixes skill practice with fun brain teasers, logic puzzles, color-by-code tasks, word searches, crosswords, and more! This is a year-long resource you’ll reach for again and again - during testing, busy weeks, or anyti

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: •

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

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

This hands-on coordinate plane project invites students to explore all four quadrants as they help Anna navigate through Wonderland. Students begin by identifying given locations and recording their ordered pairs. From there, they will work through various tasks involving plotting ordered pairs, identifying quadrants, reflecting shapes the x- and y-axes, finding the area of polygons, and calculating distance. The project concludes with a completed Wonderland map! This resource is low-prep and ea

This real-world percent project challenges 7th grade students to open their own pizzeria using key percent skills: percent increase and decrease, discount, sale price, tax, and percent of a quantity - transferring every answer onto a pizza-shaped Pizzeria Launch Board they assemble and present at the end. Perfect for an end-of-unit percent project, performance task, or after state testing, this print-and-go activity keeps students engaged from start to finish. Quick DetailsGrade Level & Standard

This 7th grade fast finishers worksheet bundle is your go-to solution for independent work, state testing, intervention groups, and sub plans. With 40 no-prep worksheets, early finishers stay quietly engaged while reviewing essential math skills. Each page is standards-aligned and mixes skill practice with fun brain teasers, logic puzzles, color-by-code tasks, word searches, crosswords, and more! This is a year-long resource you’ll reach for again and again - during testing, busy weeks, or anyti

This expressions, equations, and inequalities project for 6th grade math places students in the role of show directors for a circus. Working through five structured parts, they write algebraic expressions from pricing rules, solve one-step equations, write and graph inequalities, and apply every skill in an open-ended performance task where they design their own circus finale and build a 3D pop-up tent diorama to display their work. Quick DetailsGrade Level & Standard: 6th Grade Math — 6.EE.A.2a

This bundle of low-prep, high-impact projects for 8th grade math combines 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 slope, multi-step equations, surface area & volume, Pythagorean theorem, statistics, and transformations, this is a flexible, classroom-tested collection you can use all year long! What’s Included:Waterslide De

This festive, hands-on Christmas math project challenges students to explore the math behind The 12 Days of Christmas! Through this packet, students apply fractions, decimals, ratios, proportions, surface area, volume, graphing, and probability. Classroom tested for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade, you can use this resource in the weeks before winter break - it has always been a student favorite! A complete project packet takes about 3–4 (45-minute) lessons to complete. There are 7 parts, all of which c

This geometry project challenges students to apply translations, reflections, and rotations on the coordinate plane to create bold 90s-style wrapping paper designs! Students select and label three shapes, plan their transformations using tracing paper, complete transformation tables, and transfer their designs onto a coordinate grid. Finally, they outline and color their patterns in true retro style! You will love the creativity!Why wrapping paper? Wrapping paper is a perfect real-world example

This hands-on geometry project invites students to create and transform a garden design using dilations, scale factor, and coordinate graphing. Students begin by drafting a layout using geometric shapes on a coordinate grid. Then, they apply a scale factor to dilate their design and create a final transformed version of their garden. They’ll see exactly how multiplying coordinates changes the size of a figure while preserving its shape - a concrete, visual model of similarity!This resource is