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This is a great, engaging game to practice exponent rules and something your students will love. The goal, just like a normal BINGO game, is to get 5 in a row, either diagonally, vertically, or horizontally. You will give students one of the provided exponent questions. The answer to the question should be on their bingo board. Students will cross out the answers on their board until someone has BINGO. Depending on how long you want it to take, you can stop after one student gets BINGO, or keep

If your students are anything like mine, they get finding area and perimeter mixed up! This fun activity is to help students practice finding both, with a focus on composite figures. How it works: Scavenger hunt activities are such a hit in my class!  In the PDF there are 12 pages, each with a question about finding area or perimeter. The teacher should post these around the classroom. Students can pick any of the papers to start with. The bottom half will have a question. Students will compl

Scavenger hunt activities are such a hit in my class! In the PDF there are 12 pages, each with an order of operations question. The teacher should post these around the classroom. Students can pick any of the papers to start with. The bottom half will have a question. Students will complete the work on their paper, and arrive at an answer. The answers to questions are on the top half of each paper. Students will look around the room for the correct answer, and then go to that paper to complete t

This is a set of vocabulary I created for my Math Lab B class, which goes through core math standards from grades 6-8. The majority of my students are ESL, so each vocabulary word has a ESL friendly definition and a picture to go with the vocabulary word. These are intended to be printed and cut in half to hang up on a word wall. There are 18 pages, so a total of 36 vocabulary words. Vocabulary included: polygon, area, perimeter, right angle, right triangle, hypotenuse, leg, Pythagorean Theorem

This worksheet is a great way to have students practice using Pythagorean Theorem as well as incorporating some critical thinking skills. Students will start with the triangle at the bottom of the pile, and work there way through the triangles with the end goal of finding a side length of the triangle at the top. Students will have to decide what information they need to find, and how they can use that information to solve the next triangle in the sequence. All the sides of the triangle are Pyth

This is a great, hands-on activity for students to practice representing situations with inequalities! For this activity, students can work independently or with a partner (depending on the size of your class and how many sets you want to cut out). Give each group a set of cards (I’ve laminated mine so I can use them again and again). The goal is to match the situation with the inequality and the number line graph. There are 18 cards equaling 6 sets. Print an extra copy and don’t cut it to use

This is a great, engaging activity to practice solving systems of equations by elimination. For this activity, you will put students into groups (2-4 students per group, depending on the size of your class). Each group will be given the 16 cut-out puzzle pieces included in this file. The goal of the group will be to put the pieces together into 4 sets of 4. For each set, there are 3 puzzle pieces with a system to solve using elimination. All three have the solution, which is written on the 4th p

This is a great, engaging game to practice integer rules and something your students will love. The goal, just like a normal BINGO game, is to get 5 in a row, either diagonally, vertically, or horizontally. You will give students an integer question, one at a time. The answer to the question should be on their bingo board. Students will cross out the answers on their board until someone has BINGO. Depending on how long you want it to take, you can stop after one student gets BINGO, or keep going

This is a great, engaging activity to practice simplifying algebraic expressions. For this activity, you will put students into groups (2-4 students per group, depending on the size of your class). Each group will be given the 16 cut-out puzzle pieces included in this file. The goal of the group will be to put the pieces together into 4 sets of 4. For each set, there are 3 unsimplified algebraic expressions. All three simplify to the same expression, which is written on the 4th puzzle piece. For

This is a great, engaging activity to practice decimal operations. For this activity, you will put students into groups (2-4 students per group, depending on the size of your class). Each group will be given the 16 cut-out puzzle pieces included in this file. The goal of the group will be to put the pieces together into 4 sets of 4. For each set, there is a decimal addition problem, subtraction problem, multiplication problem, and answer. For my students, I personally like to make it more of a g

Have your students practice using the Pythagorean Theorem with this puzzle activity instead of a boring worksheet! Put your students in groups of 2-3 for this activity. Each puzzle piece has a triangle with a missing side. Beginning with the piece that says "start here", students will answer the first question, and go on to the next piece that has their answer. Keep putting the pieces together until you reach the end. There are 11 questions in this activity. Print an extra copy and don’t cut i

This is a great, engaging activity for students to practice factoring quadratics. The quadratics in this activity include factoring when a = 1, and factoring perfect squares. Students can work individually or in groups. Cut out a set of triangles for each group (I’ve laminated mine so I can use them again and again). On some sides of the triangles there are quadratics, and on other sides, the factored forms. The task for each group is to match up all the problems on the triangles with the answ

This is a great, engaging activity to practice finding slope. For this activity, you will put students into groups (2-4 students per group, depending on the size of your class). Each group will be given the 16 cut-out puzzle pieces included in this file. The goal of the group will be to put the pieces together into 4 sets of 4. For each set, there are 3 puzzle pieces that require students to find slope. One piece gives 2 points, one gives a graph, and one gives an equation of a line. All three h

In this activity, your students will get practice on writing equations of proportional relationships given a graph, a table, or a situation. There's a total of 9 unique situations for students to get in their practice! How it works: Scavenger hunt activities are such a hit in my class! In the PDF there are 9 pages, each with a question about writing equations of proportional relationships. The teacher should post these around the classroom. Students can pick any of the papers to start with. Th

This is a great, hands-on activity for students to practice solving literal equations. For this activity, students can work independently or with a partner (depending on the size of your class and how many sets you want to cut out). Give each group a set of the cards (I’ve laminated mine so I can use them again and again). On some cards there is a question, and on others there are answers. The task for each group is to match up all the problem cards with the correct answer. If all problems are m

Use this game in your class to have students practice their integer rules! You can put your students into 2 teams (or three if you have a larger class). Students take turns in front of the board and use a flyswatter to hit the correct answer (you can give them spatulas if you don't have flyswatters at home). A question appears at the top of the screen, and 4 answer choices will appear around the board. The first to hit the correct answer gets the point! There are 20 questions, as well as an exam

This is a great, engaging game to practice solving equations and something your students will love. The goal, just like a normal BINGO game, is to get 5 in a row, either diagonally, vertically, or horizontally. You will give students one of the provided equations to solve. The answer to the question should be on their bingo board. Students will cross out the answers on their board until someone has BINGO. Depending on how long you want it to take, you can stop after one student gets BINGO, or ke

This is a great, engaging game to practice solving quadratic equations. For this game, students can work in groups of 2. Each group will have a board and a deck of cards, included in this file. The winner is whoever gets to the finish first. Students take turns drawing a card, and solving the equation on the back. Have both students solve the equation so that they agree on the correct answer. The sum of the 2 solutions is how many spaces forward the student moves - so for example, x = 5 or -2 me

Students love practicing solving systems of equations with the puzzle activity instead of your standard worksheet! Each puzzle piece has a question on systems of equations, where students need to solve using graphing, substitution, or elimination. Starting with the piece that says "start here", students will solve each system, and go on to the next piece that has their answer. There are 11 questions in this activity, and the answer key with the correct order is attached.

This is a great, engaging game to practice simplifying expressions using order of operations. For this game, students can work in groups of 2-3. Each group will have a board and a deck of cards. The winner is whoever gets to the finish first. Students take turns drawing a card, and simplifying the expression on the back. Have all students in the group work on the problem so that they agree on the correct answer. The answer is how many spaces forward that student moves. The next player chooses a