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Engage students in grades 5 - 8 with this small group fraction operations activity and game. Students practice all 4 fraction operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - with "Fractionopoly", a fun twist on the classic Monopoly game. This math activity/game turns practicing fractions into a fun experience. What’s Included:✏️ 2 Fractionopoly game boards (printable PDF) at different levels Board A: Simpler fractions, some common denominators, no mixed or improper fractionsB

Increase student confidence and understanding of radical expressions with this bundle of thinking-focused and skill-building activities that can be used in a variety of ways. This resource combines a differentiated card sort and a 14-station activity to support students in simplifying radicals, performing operations, and rationalizing denominators. These activities go beyond procedural practice and encourage students to analyze, compare, and justify their thinking. What’s Included This bundle

Percentopoly is a print-and-go percent activity that gets 6th and 7th grade students fluent with every major percent skill through a Monopoly-style game board. Two game modes let you scale the challenge: Roll & Calculate for straightforward practice, and Claim the Board for a more strategic, gamified experience where students spend points to claim spaces and earn bonus points when others land on them. Students stay engaged because every roll is a real math problem — and because they're playing,

Help students build a deeper understanding of radical expressions with this engaging 14-station activity. Students practice simplifying radicals, performing operations with radicals, and rationalizing denominators while developing conceptual understanding through a variety of tasks. About This Activity Students rotate through 14 math stations (68 total expressions), each focused on a specific skill related to radical expressions. Each station includes a clearly stated learning objective, helpi

Box Plots Guided Notes with Real-World Data: Master Vocabulary, Construction, and Analysis!Transform your students' understanding of box plots with this 4-page comprehensive guided notes product! Designed to explicitly teach essential vocabulary— 5-number summary, outliers, interquartile range, spread, skew, quartiles, and percentiles—these notes offer a deep dive into the concepts behind box plots. Students will learn how to: Construct box plots step-by-step using the 5-number summary.Identify

Guided Notes with Real-World Data | Box Plots and HistogramsMaster Vocabulary, Construction, and AnalysisTransform your students' understanding of box plots and histograms with this set of comprehensive guided notes products! Designed to explicitly teach all the skills needed to construct and analyze box plots and histograms, these guided notes offer a deep dive into the concepts behind both. Essential vocabulary, the basics of each visual representation, how to construct both box plots and his

Looking for a high-quality math resource that teaches students how to analyze raw data, create box plots, and draw meaningful conclusions? This engaging, real-world set of practice problems takes students step by step through the process, using scaffolded problems and intuitive visual supports to build confidence and mastery. Why You'll Love This Resource:✔ Gradual Release Method: Clear scaffolding ensures students develop independent graphing skills, moving from guided practice to self-dir

Engage your students with real-world math using basketball stats from LeBron James and Steph Curry!This interactive class activity is perfect for middle and high school math teachers aiming to teach measures of central tendency in a fun and relatable way. Students will dive into the stats of two basketball legends as they calculate the mean, median, mode, and range across four different statistical categories— points per game, rebounds, fouls, and turnovers. After each comparison, students wil

Fraction Face-Off: Multiplication and Division is a ready-to-use classroom resource designed for grades 5–7 that builds student confidence, fluency, and reasoning with fractions. Students work in pairs on matching-number problems, simplifying them simultaneously. Partners then compare their answers to determine which fraction is larger. This interactive format strengthens fraction skills, encourages peer collaboration, and supports meaningful math talk. What’s Included: ✅ 3 differentiated partne

Percentages Word Problem Task Cards or Worksheet (both formats included) – Real-World Math for Grades 6-8Help students master percentages through real-world problems! This engaging set of 16 task cards blends everyday scenarios with high-interest topics like shopping, sports, school life, animals, and social media to make math meaningful and fun. Students will apply key percent skills to solve authentic problems—perfect for small group work, partner work, centers, homework, early finishers, or r

🎃 Halloween Fraction Word Problems – Adding & Subtracting Fractions (Grades 5–7)Make fractions frightfully fun this October! This Halloween-themed set of task cards and worksheet is packed with 16 silly and spooky word problems that give students meaningful practice with adding and subtracting fractions — no tricks, just treats! Your students will laugh while solving problems featuring witches, vampires, werewolves, zombies, and haunted bakeries, all while mastering essential fraction skills.

Help your students master converting fractions, decimals, and percents with this engaging partner activity! Each problem has two versions, so partners convert separately but always land on the same answer. This makes the activity self-checking while promoting accuracy and collaboration. Designed for middle school math and aligned to CCSS and TEKS, this flexible resource can be used in multiple ways: Partner Practice – Students work with a partner to convert and check problems together.Musical Ma

🎃 Halloween Decimal Word Problems – Adding & Subtracting Decimals (Grades 5–7)Students will love solving funny and creative problems featuring zombies, witches, spiders, potions, and haunted houses — all while practicing addition and subtraction with decimals. With 16 total word problems, this resource helps students strengthen their decimal fluency, apply real-world reasoning, and enjoy a good Halloween laugh along the way! Skills Covered Adding and subtracting decimals to the hundredths p

🎃 Halloween-Themed Percentages Word Problem Task Cards or Worksheet (both formats included) – Spooky Math for Grades 6-8 Help students master percentages with Halloween-themed word problems! This engaging set of 16 task cards is composed of fun Halloween inspired percentage word problems. Students will apply key percent skills to solve authentic problems—perfect for small group work, partner work, centers, homework, early finishers, or review before assessments. These Halloween-inspired problem

Get to Know the Teacher Build classroom community from day one with this engaging, inquiry-based activity where students become sleuths (detectives) of their teacher’s life!In this back-to-school resource, students learn about their teacher through active observation and collaborative questioning. The teacher presents artifacts — either physical items or images on a slideshow — and students are challenged to think critically and work together to uncover hobbies, interests, and more. Skills Pra

🎃 Halloween Mixed Practice Word Problems – Fractions, Decimals, and Percents (Grades 5–7)This resource includes both a printable worksheet and a task card version—perfect for centers, partner work, or independent practice. Each problem features a Halloween-themed word problems that middle schoolers will love, from witches brewing potions to zombies running fun races. ✨ Skills Covered Adding and subtracting fractions (unlike denominators) Adding and subtracting decimals Solving percent p

Histograms Guided Notes with Real-World Data: Master Vocabulary, Construction, and Analysis!Transform your students' understanding of histograms with this 6-page comprehensive guided notes product plus the Microsoft PowerPoint file for editing! Designed to explicitly teach essential vocabulary— continuous data, intervals/bins, frequency, frequency table, frequency histograms, and relative frequency histograms — these notes offer a deep dive into the concepts behind histograms. Students will lea

In this self-checking activity, students graph linear equations in slope-intercept form (y = mx + b) on individual coordinate planes. If the line passes through the heart on the grid, students accurately graphed the equation. If the line does not pass through the heart on the grid, students need to find their error and try again. On this self-checking activity, students will work with: Positive and negative slopesFractional and whole number slopes Positive and negative y-interceptsGraphing fro

Start the school year with a powerful math and SEL activity that helps students express their identities through numbers and expressions! This Back to School Math About Me Project— Me in Math—engages students in meaningful self-reflection while reviewing key math skills like expressions and order of operations as students create expressions that equal a number about them. Perfect for upper elementary, middle school, Algebra 1, or any math class, this flexible, no-prep resource supports comm

This fun and collaborative activity is designed to help students master solving inequalities for x and identify values that make the inequality true while working with a partner. Students work in groups of 2. One student is Partner 1, the other student is Partner 2. The students solve inequalities in the same row simultaneously. (For example, partner 1 solves problem 1A while Partner 2 solves problem 1B.) When both partners have correctly solved their inequalities, their answers will match—encou