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Students will enjoy these word problems as Halloween approaches! These problems center around Least Common Multiples and Greatest Common Factors.

This 2-page worksheet has word problems that have 2 of the three forms of numbers in each problem. This helps students practice converting between the different forms and recognizing how they are all related.

One of the 7th grade tested indicators in Kansas requires students to be able to write an nth term expression that could be used to find the nth term in a sequence. This powerpoint includes instructions on how to write the expressions, guided practice, and independent practice.

Have students work with these spooky percent word problems for fun or as a class activity!

This is a version of spoons that is played with representations of the same fraction (see preview). How to play: The object of playing Spoons is to get four of a kind. The trick to winning the game of spoons is to wait for a moment when all other players are distracted before reaching into the table to grab a spoon. Only a player with four of a kind can do so, and then everyone else must make a mad dash to claim a spoon of their own. Remember that there is one less spoon than the number of play

This guided practice worksheet gives students step-by-step instructions to finding missing measurements in scale drawings. Some of the questions provide drawings. Others are word problems. There are "bubbles" with arrows for students to record the steps they use.

PowerPoint walks students through writing expressions based upon story problems that is most effective when used prior to turning students loose on their own problems. It helps them learn how to analyze phrasing and relationships.

These 18 properties cards are to be printed front/back so that the answers are on the back of the cards. Students turn over a card, answer the question. If they get it correct, they can place a marker on a tic-tac-toe board. Then, it's their partner's turn. It provides motivation for practice of this concept. My students loved it! It covers distributive property, associative property, commutative property, etc.

Quiz covers area of triangles, parallelograms (includes squares and rectangles), and circles.

This surface area lab helps students understand how we find the surface area of rectangular prisms.

This worksheet provides guided practice on setting up proportions to solve for a missing variable from word problems.

These problems give students a real world application of compound area while also integrating real world computation.

Students roll dice to fill in blanks of various types of fraction problems (add, subtract, multiply, divide) including those with mixed numbers. The student with the highest total wins the round. Students get very competitive and practice their fractions at the same time!

Percent Center walks students through investigation, practice, real world practice, and complements of percents. SEE FRACTION CENTER to go with the percent center :)

Fun game of pictometry is a great way to review geometry concepts. Cards are designed to be printed double-sided. There is a game board sold by the same seller as well.

Review addresses reasonable answers, simple probability and compound probability. A great review of basic probability! Appropriate for middle school.

This powerpoint goes through examples and definitions of each of the words on the KIM chart (free preview).

Use the PowerPoint to introduce problem solving skills to students. There are practice problems for each skill and then several practice problems at the end - 37 slides in all.

Sometimes it's best to teach students the relationship between the ratios in a proportion by using variables so they are not caught up on the numeric values in a traditional proportion example.

Students can work through these fun, well-developed estimation problems in cooperative groups. Answer key not provided, but available for purchase from the same seller.