Identifying & Classifying Rational and Irrational Number Activity Puzzles 8.NS.1

Looking for a fun interactive teaching idea for classifying rational and irrational numbers? Well bingo! Look no further as Identifying Rational and Irrational Numbers Activity Puzzles, for CCSS 8.NS.1, will serve as an exciting lesson plan for 8th grade middle school classrooms. This is a great resource to incorporate into your unit as a guided math center rotation, review game exercise, small group work, morning work, remediation, intervention, or rti. It can also be used as a quiz, drill or assessment tool to help determine student mastery of the learning target. Whether a student is homeschooled or given this task as a homework assignment, kids will also love working on these at home to study and improve their skills.

This puzzle set includes 16 colorful jigsaw puzzles, answer key, and an optional station instruction page with an example. These come as pdf printable sheets that can be printed on card stock and laminated for long-term use. As a suggestion, store them in a sealable gallon storage bag and place them in a foldable bin or tub for students to use throughout the year for enrichment when they finish early. Another idea, for a craft project, is students can glue the completed puzzles into a spiral notebook or journal as a model reference sheet. They can also be glued on a poster for displaying on a bulletin board or as a wall anchor chart.

It covers identifying whether a given decimal number, whole number, square root of a number, or multiple of pi, is rational or irrational. Students will need to recognize whether the number meets the requirement that a rational number can be represented as a fraction ratio of two integers. By solving the problems to sort and match the puzzle pieces, students can gain confidence in an important and sometimes challenging skill. Your students will love to practice and learn to develop strategies to classify irrational and rational numbers with this resource!

I hope you download and enjoy this engaging hands-on manipulative activity with your students! So set those worksheets aside and give our puzzles a try!

Relevant Grade 8 Common Core Standard 8.NS.A.1

Know that numbers that are not rational are called irrational.

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