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Applied math projects for Microsoft Word
Dream Vacation Math and Finance Project - Can Be Used For Distance Learning!
This project provides the opportunity for students to apply the Common Core practice of mathematical modeling to plan their own dream vacations, including choosing transportation, accommodations, food, and activities. It helps them learn to develop a budget, research various trip alternatives, and present the information to their classmates. It's amazing how quickly students realize that a limo to the airport, first class airplane ticket, 4-star hotel, and upscale restaurants may not quite be as
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6th - 12th
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Flour Sack Baby Project
This is a wonderful project that not only teaches students responsibility, but also the costs associated with a baby and the challenges it poses to anyone's lifestyle. This project has students research information as well as around a flour sack baby for a week and documenting their experience in their journal and family photo album.
Some of the things included in this project are:
1. a letter that can be sent home to parents a week prior to the start of the project givin
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9th - 12th
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8th Grade Math - END OF YEAR PROJECT (EDITABLE!)
This is a great way to wrap up the year with an 8th grade math class! Students create a fun Review Book that asks them to summarize everything they've learned... while using lots of color and flexing their creativity! * TEACH MULTIPLE SUBJECTS? Check out these other End-of-Year Projects:Bundle of 6th, 7th & 8th Grade Math ($8 discount!)7th Grade Math6th Grade Math ALL of the Common Core 8th Grade math standards are covered! The packet attached starts with clear, page-by-page directions for t
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8th
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Also included in: Middle School Math - End of Year Project BUNDLE!
Percent of Change, Tax, Tip, Discount - Shopping Project
This fun project on consumer topics originally created to be used as a "holiday shopping project". It has now been made generic for any time of the year, but is easily customizable. It is a great way to assess a unit over percent proportions.
Students use the percent proportion to calculate discounts, taxes, tips, percent off, and original prices. Students create a final product which can be displayed. A rubric is included. Tax rates in the Katy, TX area are utilized but can be customized
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5th - 10th
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Healthcare Systems Project
Groups create a their own healthcare systems by creating a town map. This project combines critical thinking skills, mathematics, and creativity! Students must stay within a budget, think about town demographics and the purpose / benefits of each healthcare facility in their town!
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9th - 12th
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HotWheels Speed Lab with a Distance Time Graph
This is a fun lab to experiment with speed! Supplies needed per group include: make-shift ramp, masking tape, 3 stop watches, meter-stick, hot wheels car and this lab sheet. Students will mark of one, two and three meters with the tape. Three students with stop-watches will stand at each of those meters. Groups will count down and as another student releases their car down the ramp, all stop watches should start their time simultaneously with the release of the car. Each student will stop their
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5th - 7th
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Linear Equations: Water Park Project
In this high interest, extensive assignment, students are given a three part project broken into daily tasks. The project is designed to assess the students profieciency with linear equations. They must design a water park on a coordinate plane, identify points, calculate slope, write equations, solve for midpoint, use the distance formula, and explain their results in a reflection paper.
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7th - 12th
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Credit Card Project -- How long does it really take to pay off the debt?
Every student should understand the ins and outs of credit cards and how easily people fall in the trap of interest payments. Students research their own credit cards, you act as the bank which approves a card, then the students pretend to max it out by buying a few "want" items. They create equations (or excel spreadsheets) to find how long it will take to pay off the debt. This project also goes into a few scenarios such as making a late payment or paying double the minimum required payment
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10th - 12th
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STEM Kid Engineering and Construction -- Hoop and Launcher Game GATE
Kid-built in a few hours . . . this 7 inch tall basketball hoop can be assembled and re-assembled. We’re not going to toss a ball to make baskets with this project. Oh, no . . . we are making a little catapult to launch marshmallows at the hoop! Oh, yes! Sweet!
Use this building project as a challenging independent study for upper elementary, as a whole-class engineering project, or use it to make math and science applications like percentages, measurements and geometry, action/reaction, tr
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3rd - 6th
T-Shirt Entrepreneurs PROJECT BASED LEARNING Math Economics GATE 4-8th
Your students will be excited for this “gold medal standard” project-based math, design, and economics activity. It’s appropriate and adaptable for 4th – 8th grade. It has been a staple for my 4th grade gifted and talented math group since 2013.You won’t be the sage on the stage. Students will problem-solve their way through the project working in collaborative teams, and the teacher will guide, be a resource, spur discussion, play devil’s advocate, and provide mini lessons when necessary.In
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class BUNDLE - Math Focus Hours of Hands-on Projects GATE Gifted
Polynomial Function Project - Roller Coaster
In this project, students learn how to use polynomial function to model roller coaster rides. In this first part, they are given some polynomial functions to find the relative maximum/minimum, increasing/decreasing intervals, x- and y-intercepts, etc. They will explore the average rate of change. In the second part of the project, students are asked design their own roller coaster given some basic criteria. Students should use graphing devices/computer applications to complete this project.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Design a Room Floorplan Project | Scale Factors, Surface Area | PBL
Students will get so engaged with this project because they get to personalize it!Objective: Students will get a chance to solve an authentic design and budget problem using their knowledge of scale diagrams and surface area. Students develop their financial literacy and communication skills too!Concepts: Scale Diagrams, Surface Area, Financial Literacy, Problem SolvingGrade Level: 8-11What is Included:Student instructions and worksheet including a detailed shopping list for furniture and paint
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6th - 11th
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STEAM -- Snap n' Shoot Marshmallow Soccer Game
Kid-built in a few hours . . . this goalie, net and goal, and cool marshmallow “snapper” is a complete kid-built soccer game. We don’t have to use our imagination here! Our snapper really shoots the marshmallow ball, and our goalies really defend.
Use this building project as a challenging independent study for upper elementary, as a whole-class engineering project, or use it to make math and science applications like percentages, measurements and geometry, action/reaction, trajectory, etc.
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: KID CREATED GAMES Standards-based STEM and Math Games Bundle
Road Trip Maths Open Ended, Real Life Extension Project (Addition & Mapping)
Do you want to deliver maths lessons that are based on real-life, engaging material but also in a scaffolded, guided and strategic way that ensures students have enough direction to learn?
This project enables students to plan their dream road trip around any country - the US or elsewhere around the world. They only need access to a scaled map (provided for the US and Australia) and the internet (basic searches like Google to look up activities and hotel costs). If students don't have access t
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4th - 7th
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Create Your Own Statistics Project
This document contains a statistics project description that allows students to create their own project. This is suitable for high school and beginning level college statistics class. Students will design their own study - formulate research questions, collect data, organize and summarize the findings, calculate confidence interval and construct hypothesis testing. Certain restrictions are outlined in the document. Students will experience the complexity of constructing their own study. They ar
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Carnival Probability Project
A project that feels like a game!
Students must create their own game, using probability to ensure THEY are favored to win....much like the house in a casino. Students can make games involving dice, spinners, cards, "fishing" ducks out of a pond, etc.
Assessed skills include: fundamental counting principal, theoretical probability, experimental probability, independent events, dependent events, creativity, writing, presentation. *Students must already know basic probability to complete this
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8th - 12th
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My Lego House
This is a 2-3 week maths project for anyone from Grade 3-6. Done in pairs or small groups the project entails students designing and building their own Lego house. In the project students will cover a range of maths concepts including area, perimeter, counting, money, graphing and interpreting data. The project includes a detailed teacher booklet with photographs of student's work and examples for each of the lessons. The student book is also included for students to work from, although we found
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3rd - 6th
Scatter plot Line of Best Fit Equation of Line Project
Using Zillow, students will understand the correlation between house size and house price. Students will create a scatterplot, draw a line of best fit, select points on the line of best fit to write an equation of the line, and make predictions.
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Detailed, step-by-step directions, grading rubric.
Can be easily adapted to suit your needs.
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6th - 10th
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Career Monthly Bils Circle Graph Project
In this project students draw a career and select 10 of their monthly bills. They then figure what percent of their monthly salary goes to each item and create a circle graph showing where their money goes. The file you will receive includes a rubric for the project, an accountability sheet, 24 "career cards", a list of choices for the 7 required and 3 choice items in the project, and teachers notes about how the project has been made successful in their class. It is a word document so any of th
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6th - 8th
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Baseball Math Project Based Learning (PBL) for place value and subtraction
This project based learning unit gives students a real world math experience. Students are tasked with creating a baseball stadium for their town and will practice addition, subtraction, reading, writing, and comparing large numbers, rounding,and problem solving.4.NBT.24.NBT.34.NBT.4Included: Entry Document from the Mayor, Know/Need to Know List Template, Expenses/Budget Tracker, Team Contract, Student Checklist, Feedback Form, Kid Checks, Pre-ordered tickets, Memo from the MayorAll pages are
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3rd - 5th
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Middle/High School Personal Finance Project
This is a finance project that allows students to do online research to see how much it costs for them to live a lifestyle they want when they graduate college. It allows middle school students to appreciate the value of a dollar. It is a culturally relevant project that inspires students to work hard in school to make enough money to support a comfortable lifestyle in their future career. This project takes roughly 5-7 hours including online research. It is ten pages long and includes a gra
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6th - 12th
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Maths Linear Graphs Criteria CD Assessment GRASPS Task Sheet, Specific Rubric.
Ready to teach! Includes Task sheet, GRASPS, Student Journal and Task Specific Rubric. Description: This ready-to-implement project based assessment is designed for MYP2 or MYP3 students (Grade 7 or Grade 8) aligned with the Year 2 Rubric for MYP with a focus on linear graphs. The project seamlessly integrates mathematical concepts related to linear equations and graphs with practical applications in a business context. Comes with a student journal that they complete along with color coded task
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7th - 9th
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MYP Maths Ratio Smoothie Criteria CD Project, GRASPS, RUBRIC and Student Journal
Smoothie Design! Focus on ratios, fractions, percents, proportion, best buys and currency conversion. It is ready for you to download and teach! Includes Task sheet, GRASPS, Student Journal and Task Specific Rubric. Description: Transform your MYP (Middle Years Programme) math classroom with a compelling Smoothie Design Project designed specifically to assess Criteria C (Communication) and D (Real-Life Applications). This project is crafted for MYP educators seeking an immersive and applicable a
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7th - 9th
7th grade Pizzeria Project (area and circumference of a circle, 7.g.b.4)
This is a great project to help students apply their understanding of circle area and circumference to a real world situation. In this project, students research different pizza companies to determine why some are more successful than others. They will discover for example that some companies sell their medium pizza at the highest price per square inch, all companies use the same standard diameters, and some companies are able to sell pizza for much cheaper for several reasons. I used this in
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7th
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