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This jeopardy game helps students practice with the following categories: Basic Percents, Sales Tax & Tips, Discount, Interest & Commission, Markup. Plays like a real jeopardy game.

This 11-page work packet helps students practice finding the area, perimeter & circumference of rectangles, triangles, circles, and trapezoids.

This jeopardy game has 5 categories-- Arrays, Repeated Addition, Fast Facts, Fast Facts 2 (harder problems), and Word Problems. Students see a question, get the correct answer, then go back to the main jeopardy board to pick another question. Instructions on how to work the powerpoint included.

Students LOVE this activity. Pre-make ziplock bags with 18 m&ms, 33 m&ms, and 61 m&ms in them. Have Ss count their m&ms, and then use this beautifully colored powerpoint to explain the correlation between education and higher salaries.

This jeopardy game has students practice solving basic proportions, finding unit rates, and solving complex word problems using unit rates and proportions (or rate tables).

Students practice selecting, using, and converting appropriate units of measurement within the U.S. Customary system and the metric system.

This jeopardy game runs like the real thing. It reviews the standards below using word problems, graphing, and tables. SWBAT describe and represent relations using tables, graphs, and rules. SWBAT create rules to explain the relationship between numbers when a change in the first variable affects the second variable. SWBAT describe and determine linear relationships.

Good for warm-ups, centers, extra time, or just fun. Kids use math to decide on their choice-- there are no right answers, but kids must use math to defend their choice. The skills are at a middle school level but could be used as a warm up for high school- linear equations, conversions, complex word problems, area, geometric patterns. Includes 7 pages, 20 printable questions. Would you rather have a zombie apocalypse that transforms people into zombies at a rate of n2 or one that transforms

This 50-slide powerpoint teaches students about the food pyramid, serving sizes and healthy choices. The guided notes that go with it are free, also under my name.

This 22-slide powerpoint tells the story of Jim Thorpe, a native american athlete who is often considered to be the greatest athlete of all time.

This 23-slide powerpoint is meant to inspire students to see the importance of math. It addresses the skills that math helps students develop, a number of careers that require math, and some tips for students who have always struggled with math in the past.

I use this lesson plan before teaching Cheyenne Again by Even Bunting. It introduces the history of Carlisle Indian School and the forced westernization of Native Americans. It can also be used on its own as a history lesson.

Studies show that the best way to improve student writing skills is to have them write. This writing journal is 40 pages of 80 prompts. Students first write the day's date, then how they are feeling and why, designed to encourage students to identify their feelings and improve socio-emotional growth. Next, students have 4-5 lines to answer prompts that range from "What makes a good friend" to "What skills do you have that would help you survive the zombie apocalypse?" In my class, I print th

Students design their own amusement park using area and perimeter of rectangles and triangles. Includes extensive instruction sheet, project guide for students, and extra writing activity if students finish early. Students make a poster to show park design, and can even use manipulatives to find the longest and cheapest roller coaster ride possible! Students also calculate tax and price, coming up with a total budget!

This jeopardy game has 5 categories: Multiples, Factors, GCF, LCM, and Multiplication/Place Value. It runs like a real jeopardy game, although I only posted the factors section in the preview. Students can click on the dollar amount and then click forward to the answer. The jeopardy board blacks out the numbers as students play them. This is for a 5th/6th grade level, but can be used as review for other grades.

This slide show goes through pictures of polygons found in the real world-- from beehives to soccer balls to coat hangers-- and asks students to name the shape. Each slide contains a little bit of history or a fun fact about where the shape was found, or its origins. Good for teachers trying to integrate social studies into the math classroom. Students name-- rectangle, quadrilateral, parallelogram, square, triangle (isosceles, equilateral), hexagon, pentagon, and decagon.

This powerpoint tells the history of the Aztecs, with a special focus on human sacrifice in their society.

Review game for area and perimeter of rectangles and squares.

A powerpoint with lots of graphics that shares the history behind Halloween. Also includes fun facts about halloween. Includes guided notes to help your students follow along!

Categories include: Simplifying fractions, Adding & Subtracting Fractions (like and unlike denominators), Multiplying & Dividing Fractions, Word Problems, and Potpourri (includes multi-step word problems and "which is bigger" problems).