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Middle school algebra games for Microsoft Word
Combining Like Terms with Distributive Property - Scavenger Hunt
This scavenger hunt allows students to practice with combining like terms and the distributive property. There are 12 cards, a recording sheet for students and an answer key for teachers. Enjoy! **No integers!**
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Here’s how to play:
- Post the cards all over your room.
- Split students up into groups (I typically do pairs, depending on class size).
- Have students start at any one of the cards. The ca
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6th - 9th
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2024 March Mathness Madness NCAA Basketball Probability and Statistics Lesson
Every year I get my students excited about the NCAA Men's Basketball March Madness Tournament. I see articles written year after year from statisticians, sports journalist, celebrities, etc. about predicting the perfect bracket. Regardless that most have accepted it is nearly impossible, it has not deterred these enthusiast from finding an algorithm or a machine that can predict the outcomes.This packet guides students through 1) An explanation of what March Madness is all about2) A reading abou
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4th - 12th
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Complementary and Supplementary Missing Angles Scavenger Hunt
This activity includes 12 practice problems:
-Finding the missing angle in supplementary and complementary angles
- Writing and solving one and two-step equations
- Combining like terms
The scavenger hunt game gets students out of their seat and engaged in learning and provides a great opportunity for cooperative learning or peer tutoring. Students can start at any card and solve the problem. They are to hunt for their answer on one of the other hidden cards. This will be the next problem to
Solving Systems of Equations by Substitution Station Rotation
A Hands-On Approach to Solving Systems of Equations by Substitution. This activity helps students to really understand the substitution method by having them physically replace a variable with its equivalent value.
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8th - 10th
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Back to School Math Ice Breaker Human Number Line
Get your students excited about math class this year! This is a wonderful first day of school activity for your Algebra class. You will receive a set of pre-made real number cards where the students will work in large groups to create a human number line. You can make it a warm up activity or use it to close the class. I've included both rational and irrational numbers and also a non-real number. You can adjust this activity depending on your students level.
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8th - 12th
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2-Variable Linear Inequalities BINGO game
This is a great way to review student understanding of the graphs of linear inequalities. There are 7 different BINGO cards with 24 pictures of graphs of 2-variable inequalities. The teacher reads the equation of a linear inequality and the stduents have to find the matching graph on their BINGO card. Students go for 5 in a row in any direction and I usually let them go for 5 in a row more than one time to keep the play going. The students absolutely LOVE this!
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8th - 11th
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Valentine's Day Math - Candy Heart Number Cube Game - Evaluating Expressions
Quick, simple, and fun for your students, this number cube game could take as little as 10 minutes or as long as half an hour. You can have kids switch partners after each game, and play as long as you would like.
These directions are included at the top of the page: Roll your number cube. Replace the candy heart variable in each expression with the number you rolled. After you evaluate the expression, the player with the greatest value wins that round. The player who wins the most rounds at t
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5th - 8th
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One Step Equations Maze (Addition/Subtraction) **FREEBIE**
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In this maze students will solve one step equations using only addition and subtraction to find their way. There are no negative numbers for answers, all positive. Students will need to add and subtract decimals and fractions to find their way through the maze. Clip-art used from Microsoft Clip-art Gallery.
Enjoy!
Distributive Property & Combining Like Terms 4 x 4 Bingo
This is Bingo game is a great way to review or practice the important skill of simplifying expressions. To start the game, have each student create their own game board using a pen or marker (if they use a pencil, they may try and move their answers to get a bingo quicker). Before I begin the game, I walk around to make sure that all the game boards have been completed and write the numbers 1 to 20 on the board. To play the game, I usually will accept a traditional Bingo, box of 4 together, o
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7th - 10th
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Factoring Trinomials and GCF 18 Problems Tic Tac Toe Review Game
Tic Tac Toe game to review factoring trinomials where leading coefficient is 1 and also factoring a GCF from a polynomial. There are 2 Tic Tac Toe games (1 for each concept). The complete instructions and answer key are provided. Great review activity that takes about 15 minutes.
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8th - 11th
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Intro to Exponential Functions Activity
This is a great activity that I use in my Algebra 1 class to introduce exponential functions. Students have to answer real life example questions in order to determine the characteristics of an exponential function. I let students work with a partner and then we go over the worksheet as a class. Students love answering the question "would you rather get a million dollars at the end of 1 month or earn a penny doubled everyday for 30 days?" Students need to have prior knowledge of exponential
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7th - 9th
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Mixed Factoring "GO TO" Review Activity
In this review activity, students will bounce all over your classroom to different posted problems reviewing various ways to factor polynomials, such as taking out the greatest common factor, grouping, difference of squares, and unFOIL (trinomial into two binomials). Working in groups, students solve a problem and then choose the correct answer, which send them to a new problem. If students complete the problems correctly, they will be taken on a unique pathway through each of the 16 problems.
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8th - 10th
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Index Laws Indices Game with clues around the classroom or school
This is a fantastic resource to get your students moving and engaged while doing maths. Students answer the question and then their answer lines up with the location of the next clue. This is a word doc and you will need to write in your own locations however it is clear and quick to do with [insert second location] written so you don't need to work out all the answers or get confused!You can choose to have activity be around the whole school or choose a small area such as the Middle School area
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7th - 11th
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Halloween Math - Pumpkin Number Cube Game - Evaluating Expressions
Quick, simple, and fun for your students, this number cube game could take as little as 10 minutes or as long as half an hour. You can have kids switch partners after each game, and play as long as you would like. These directions are included at the top of the page: Roll your number cube. Replace the pumpkin variable in each expression with the number you rolled. After you evaluate the expression, the player with the greatest value wins that round. The player who wins the most rounds at the end
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5th - 8th
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Combining Like Terms Partner Activity
In this activity, students will work with a partner to complete 15 practice problems involving combining like terms. This is similar to a think, pair, share activity. Students should have knowledge of variables and integers before completing this activity. Each student solves his or her own problem. Both problems are different, but the answers are the same. This is a great way to practice combining like terms! The answer key is included along with a student handout. You can also edit as n
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6th - 12th
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Operations with Matrices (matrix) Practice with Math Monsters
Students work in groups and solve problems pertaining to basic matrix operations and creating matrices. When the group finishes a problem, a student brings you the answer to check. If it is incorrect, they continue working on it. If it is correct, they draw a part of their math monster.
Detailed instructions are included and an answer key. If you'd like more information, please let me know.
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8th - 11th
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Balancing Equations Algebra Dice Game Differentiated Equivalent Number Sentences
A highly-fun and differentiated game using dice to teach your students to balance equations.
Instructions include variations for differentiation.
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2nd - 9th
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Integer Golf
Integer golf is a fun activity for students to play and serves as an effective way to practice integer operations. There are 9 holes (tasks) that students must complete. See the preview document for directions (plus rules to another integer game). The document is the tracking sheet for the game.
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6th - 9th
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Christmas Holiday Math - Snowman Number Cube Game - Evaluate Expressions
Quick, simple, and fun for your students, this number cube game could take as little as 10 minutes or as long as half an hour. You can have kids switch partners after each game, and play as long as you would like.
These directions are included at the top of the page: Roll your number cube. Replace the snowman variable in each expression with the number you rolled. After you evaluate the expression, the player with the greatest value wins that round. The player who wins the most rounds at the e
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5th - 8th
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FOIL Method Matching Card Game
This is a 10 question card matching game for multiplying binomials by using the double distributive property (FOIL). This is a great tool for a review day or a time-filler. In the past, I have printed this document on colored cardstock paper and had the cards laminated so that I can re-use the cards each year.There are 20 cards: 10 questions and 10 answers.
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8th - 12th
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STAAR TEK 5.4C That's MY Ordered Pair! and That's MY Coordinate Pair!
Students play this game in pairs, rotating from station to station; or the pages may be copied and used as individual homework. One sheet with a blank table is included after the answer key.Materials Needed: Page Protectors, Two Different Colors of Dry Erase Markers Per Pair, Game Sheet per StationObjective: To win, name more correct ordered pairs for the rule than your partner and identify the rule. For “That’s My Coordinate Pair!,” identify more coordinates correctly.This game was designed
Operations with Polynomials Review Stations
This activity includes 6 review stations related to operations with polynomials and classifying polynomials. Throughout this activity, students will be engaged and actively working in groups.
This is a great activity to use as review the day before an assessment.
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8th - 11th
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One-Step Inequalities Task Cards: Write, Solve, and Graph
This is a set of 12 algebraic phrases on groovy task cards that need to be translated into a one-step inequality. Students must: write the inequality, solve, and graph their answer. These can be used as an activity or in a math center
Blank number lines are included on a student worksheet. (My students always have trouble writing the negatives on a number line; so I left them blank for extra practice.)
There are a few negative coefficients, but otherwise it is a beginning level activity
Thanksgiving Math - Turkey Number Cube Game - Evaluating Expressions
Quick, simple, and fun for your students, this number cube game could take as little as 10 minutes or as long as half an hour. You can have kids switch partners after each game, and play as long as you would like.
These directions are included at the top of the page: Roll your number cube. Replace the turkey variable in each expression with the number you rolled. After you evaluate the expression, the player with the greatest value wins that round. The player who wins the most rounds at the en
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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