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In groups of 2-3, students use a standard deck of playing cards (no jokers) to calculate various measures of central tendency. For students who are lower ability or new to finding Measures of Central Tendency, all cards are positive numbers. Increase the difficulty for more advanced students by having black cards represent positive numbers and red cards as negative numbers. Full set of directions available with the purchase of the download. Students may end up with fraction or decimal answer

This game created by Ebel in the Middle is for 3-4 players and involves solving two-step inequality problems. Students must know how to solve two-step inequality problems with both positive and negative numbers. Two-Steppin' Inequalities Game by Ebel in the Middle is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Purchasers of this item may copy for their individual classroom use only.

Ready to use and answers included! Hang the Scientific Notation Station Activity Pages around your classroom. Place students into groups of 3-5 and assign each student a letter from A-E. Students assigned the letter "A" answer only the "A" questions, students assigned the letter "B" answer only the "B" questions, etc. Give students no more than 1 minute at each station and have them rotate to another station (most students can finish these problems in less than 30 seconds). Since students e

This ready-to-use PowerPoint is 10 problems involving the subtraction of integers and "adding the opposite". Students are paired together and need the use of a dry erase board (or some other method to display their problem to the teacher once finished), and 2 different colored dry erase markers. Partner #1 is responsible for copying the problem onto the dry erase board and making sure calculations are completed correctly. Partner #2 uses the different colored dry erase marker and shows "addin

This joke/puzzle/riddle worksheet is for students to solve problems involving exponents. Students can solve problems using paper & pencil or the teacher can have students explore using the exponent key(s) on their calculator to also solve these problems. Students solve the problem and then find the answer at the bottom of the page, where they place the corresponding letter. Special Note: the answer to the joke/riddle at the bottom of the page is the same as the Free Download Exponent Puzzle

This joke/puzzle/riddle worksheet is for students to solve problems involving exponents. All base numbers are under 10 and the highest exponential value is 7. Students should be able to use mental math to solve most of these problems, others will require more work. Students solve the problem and then find the answer at the bottom of the page, where they place the corresponding letter. This worksheet, created and provided by Ebel in the Middle, should not take students very long to complete.