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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

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

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

These no-prep, color-by-number worksheets gives students plenty of practice finding scale factors of similar figures while revealing a fun polygon mosaic. With two differentiated versions included, you can easily support students who need extra guidance while still challenging those ready for on-level practice. The smaller, compact coloring image means maximum practice time without the usual time drain of large coloring pages! Two Differentiated Versions Included Version A – Supported Practice S

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

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

This set of 8th grade Geometry Transformations Worksheets helps students understand how figures move across the coordinate plane through translations. Students will identify, describe, and graph translations using both directional language and coordinate rules. With scaffolded worksheets, logic puzzles, and a cut-and-paste task, this resource makes learning translations visual and engaging -perfect as an introduction to your 8th Grade Transformations Unit! BenefitsReinforces coordinate plane s

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

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

This set of worksheets help your students practice compound probability using tree diagrams. It includes a mix of scaffolded pages (where part of the work is done for them) and blank templates (where they do it all on their own). These are great for teaching independent and dependent events in a visual, step-by-step way. 5 PDF pages for printing, with 2 tree diagrams per page (10 problems total). Cut pages in half to use at math centers or stations or post around the room for a fun scavenge

Give your students fun, interactive practice with Similar Figures, Scale Factor, Proportions, and Scale Drawings - all in one no-prep bundle! These 4 interactive activities are perfect for your 7th grade geometry unit and support CCSS 7.G.A.1. What’s Included: Digital Escape Room (Google Forms): Students crack codes and solve puzzles while practicing Similar Figures and Scale Factor. Finding the Scale Factor Coloring Activity: Two differentiated versions for enlarging and shrinking figures - qu

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

This double number line activity set gives 6th-grade students clear, visual practice with ratios, equivalent ratios, and rate reasoning. Students learn how quantities grow at the same rate by completing and creating double number lines step-by-step. This hands-on approach helps make ratio relationships concrete, visual, and easy to understand. The resource includes 5 scaffolded worksheets and 12 interactive Google Slides, starting with labelled number lines and gradually removing support so st

Back to School Math Tessellation Icebreaker | Learning Styles & Classroom Preferences ActivityStart your math class with a meaningful back-to-school icebreaker that helps you get to know your students on day one! This get-to-know-you activity is perfect for upper elementary, middle school, or high school math classes. Students answer questions about their learning style, classroom preferences, strengths, challenges, and interests, then create a personalized hexagon based on their responses. Once

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: •

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

This hands-on Skittles activity is a fun and engaging way to introduce 6th-grade students to ratios. Students sort and count their Skittles, then use the data to write and compare part-to-part and part-to-whole ratios. This interactive approach helps make the concept of ratios concrete, visual, and easy to understand - perfect for an introduction to ratios lesson! Benefits Hands-on activity perfect for visual learnersSupports writing and interpreting ratios using appropriate notation and languag

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

This Modeling Ratios Bundle gives your 6th-grade students three powerful visual ways to understand ratios: tape diagrams (part-to-part & part-to-whole), ratio tables, and double number lines. Each model helps students see how quantities compare, grow, and scale - making ratio relationships easier to grasp and apply. Students practice building equivalent ratios, completing ratio tables, labeling double number lines, and using tape diagrams to solve real-world ratio problems. This visual and hand