tmccabe

This 3-page quiz covers the 8th grade Common Core angle vocabulary and concepts, including complementary and supplementary angles, alternate interior and exterior angles, vertical angles, parallel lines and transversals. Students can demonstrate their understanding of missing angles in an open-ended format as well as multiple choice. Essay type open-ended questions help students use Math Practice 3 to justify their answers in a written format. An answer key is included. This work is licensed

With this activity, Happy Trails, students get plenty of practice with the properties of integer exponents (CCS 8.EE.1) without the run of the mill worksheet concept. Students get to move AND work on their math skills! The activity includes directions, 42 practice problems, and an answer key. By: tmccabe This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Help students remember key Common Core concepts with these easy to learn songs. The three song lyrics, set to familiar tunes, cover the concepts of the Real Number System; Volumes of Spheres, Cones & Cylinders; and Solving Multi-Step Equations. by tmccabe This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

An 8th grade Number Sense quiz covering the Common Core standard 8.NS.1. With both multiple choice questions and open-ended problems, this quiz covers categorizing rational and irrational numbers and converting decimals to fractions. The open-ended questions are written at a DOK 2 level. By tmccabe This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

How much water would you have to drink in comparison to a dairy cow? Or if you could dig a tunnel just like mole, how long would your tunnel be in one night's time? Your students will have fun setting up ratios and using proportions to find out some wacky facts about themselves. Extend the lesson by having students create their own picture book illustrating these wacky facts. Project rubric included. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Just telling our 8th grade students the volume formulas for a cylinder and a cone does not necessarily mean they are going to understand and be able to apply this Common Core standard. However, by using a discovery approach, students will be able to connect these formulas to some prior knowledge...the volume of a rectangular prism. This activity also reviews the basics of a cone and cylinder and the math behind making the nets for each. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribu

This quiz covering four 8th grade Common Core math concepts (approximating square roots, rational and irrational numbers, square and cube roots, and converting repeating decimals to fractions) is written at a Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK) levels of 1 and 2. Some of the questions not only cover student understanding of the concept but are written to cover Math Practice 3 as well. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Want a deeper understanding of your Common Core math standards? Would you like to see the big picture of how your grade level standards fit together with grade levels above and below you? This professional development idea, complete with a worksheet to guide your discussions, will bring math teachers together on the same page. Together with your teaching cohorts, embark on valuable discussions as you piece together how the standards align by grade levels. When finished you will have a produc