Mullen Magic

My students do a Skills Check every week to help keep them sharp, previewing new topics using prerequisite skills, and spiral reviewing. This activity can get done independently or in a pair but keeps them up and moving around. It is also self checking because it will bring them back to where they started! I would print two sets and put one set in the hall and the other around my classroom. My students would see the sheets up and get so excited to do Math for the day! Stay tuned for more of thes

Teachers: - This is a group work challenge for students. - Print one copy per group and laminate everything. Also print a copy of the answer sheet (second sheet) for yourself. - Cut out the squares from the second sheet and put into a small plastic bag. - Each group will get a blank board and a set of squares to put back together. - You can keep everything together to reuse each year in a gallon size bag! When I do this, I will start to give placement of pieces after about 15 minutes or after

Fun Pi Day project incorporating the Pi symbol into famous works of art for an Art Gallery. I got the idea from a shirt I purchased that incorporated the Pi symbol into Van Gogh's "A Starry Night". If you do this, I would LOVE for you to share your student's pictures on Twitter and tag me @mullen2math!

A worksheet for your students to use to apply scale, measure on a map, and answers questions about our country.

Hey teacher friends! I hope you can find this helpful! I chose some buddy labels that highlighted key 8th grade vocabulary. I’ve left this as a Word Document so that you can edit it anyway you would like! I passed out the sheets and then collected them after 20ish minutes. Later that night, I went through and just filled in names of people who still needed buddies for those labels. If someone still didn’t have a name for a label, I wrote in “Substitute Buddy” or “Pick a Group!” It didn’t take

Quick activity to do in pairs or groups. Have them race against each other to see who can match the expression to the property the fastest!