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Free high school math simulations
Finding Simple & Compound Interest - Car Activity
This is a quick, one page activity involving simple and compound interest. It presents a car and its price and offers four financing options. Students calculate the total to be repaid for each option. Great for comparing compound and simple interest or showing how length of a loan affects credit!Key is included. Discussion question page coming soon!TEKS: 8.12A, 8.12B, 8.12D, and 8.12E
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7th - 10th
Alaskan Earthquake Epicenter Location Activity (November 30, 2018)
In this activity students will analyze seismograms from three seismic stations in Alaska. They will use the difference in arrivals times of the primary and secondary waves with a travel time curve to determine the distance from the epicenter to the seismic stations. Using the epicenter distance and a drawing compass student can triangulate the location of the November 30th, 2018 Alaskan earthquake.For information about how to read a seismogram, I suggest having students read this website: http:/
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5th - 10th
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Financial Literacy Video Game - HTML5 Distance Learning (Educator Free Trial)
Video Game about Personal Finance, Investing, Money Management, & Budgeting. An evidence-based, hand drawn visual-novel personal finance simulation game for High School and Young Adults that teaches financial literacy skills. Free Educator Trial Version! Obtain access to a free version of the game just because you're awesome! Test out 21st century game based learning for yourself before purchasing for use in your classroom. This is a trial copy available only to educators for classroom testi
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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2020 Income Tax Activity 1040, W-2, W-4, tax tables
This assignment will prepare students to file their own federal income taxes on a standard 1040. Students will be given a real life scenario with information needed to complete a W-4. I have included a W-4 form for them to fill out, a W-2, the relevant tax tables, and a 1040.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Day 3 - Weekly Shopping List / Grocery Budget Worksheet
On Day 3 of the Socioeconomic Simulation, students will use real, tangible grocery magazines to determine a weekly shopping list for their profile. After calculating the prices of their groceries for a week, students may multiply by "four" to determine the grocery budget for the month, and update the previous class period's budget accordingly.
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7th - 12th
Also included in:Â Financial Literacy/Socioeconomic Simulation 5-Day Unit
FREEBIE - Templates: Group Generator, Name Chooser, Timer, Activity, ... etc.
This Smart Notebook file contains tools that are helpful to use in managing the classroom. A "Group Generator" tool allows you to generate as many groups as you wish. A "Word Chooser" tool allows you to pick on a student for an answer at random. A "Timer" allows to manage your class time effectively. Different type of timers are also included such as firecracker. Also, for those who are teaching probability, an interactive die, spinner, and card are also available in this template file.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Insurance Game
This realistic insurance game may be one of the best ways for students to understand how insurance works. Give a brief overview of car insurance, then play this game, allowing students to participate in paying monthly auto insurance premiums, experiencing a "month" of risk (only fender-benders in this game!) and then ultimately explore what happens to money paid for premiums. This will be a great activity to facilitate questions. A few are listed at the bottom but your students will surely think
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7th - 12th
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Save the Hikers (Grades 6-9) Pre-Algebra to Algebra
This lesson activity is an educational game that teaches:
1) How using the distance formula is important in a very real life situation and,
2) How to optimize a network of path from the inside of a triangle to its vertices.
2 Versions of the game are provided. One for students just learning to use the distance formula and the second for student's who wish to cooperate and find the shortest distance between 4 points.
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6th - 10th
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Conversions - Human Number Line Activity
This activity is designed to be used a fun review for converting between fractions, decimals, and percents.. As students enter the room, you will tape a number to their back (they will not look at it).
They can only as "yes" or "no" questions until they determine the value of their number. Once they do that, they will then go to the front of the room to create a human number line based on how their number compares to the rest of the class.
STAAR, TEKS, Number line, Conversion, Compare,
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5th - 9th
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Volume of Rectangular Prisms Hands on Activity
This hands on activity is student centered and student led and allows the students to investigate and discover volume of rectangular prisms. For this activity, the students can use snap cubes to complete the project. There is a hint on the bottom of the project to help the students complete it. For this project, the teacher is just there to facilitate and give leading questions. The students can work in teams and arrive at the correct answer in many ways.
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6th - 9th
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STEM bin labels
Super cute STEM bin labels! PDF format, but if you would like the PowerPoint version for editing please let me know. Size: 4"Lx5"W
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PreK - 12th
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FREE VERSION - Additive Inverse & Zero Pair Ninjas for teaching Integers
Do you need an interactive, fun, and engaging way to teach integers, zero pairs, or additive inverses? This PowerPoint is your answer, and will allow students to visually see what is happening when you add integers. It uses "good" and "bad" ninjas to demonstrate concepts of additive inverse and zero pairs.
If your student is not understanding how to add or subtract integers, please give this a try. Your students will love it! Mine do!
This is the free version where you are limited to 10 ninjas
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6th - 10th
Supply and demand
A classroom activity where student build their own demand and supply curves based on what they are willing to pay (or be paid) for a clean room. Students must reason quantitatively and use units common in economics to solve problems in market equilibrium. Algebra- linear equations, systems of equations, and functions.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Probability Intro to simulation using dice
This is the perfect introductory activity to simulation and probability. It could be used in Algebra 2 and basic Statistics courses. It could also be used in 6th through 8th grade to introduce probability.
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6th - 12th
Mouse Money: Play Money for the Classroom
Use this cute Mouse Money for economic activities, incentives, and games. This play money design uses a realistic currency background with a central portrait of a cute mouse. Use different colored paper or shrink print size to fit your specific needs.
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Economics Vocabulary & Activity Pac
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K - 12th
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Adding and Subtracting Negative Values Math Mat
This resource simplifies the concept of adding and subtracting negative values. Students will grasp the nuances of integer arithmetic, through tactile interaction and visualization.What's Inside:Math Mat: The math mat features a number line and 2 items to cut out - a rectangle and an arrow. Cut-Outs: Two sheets filled with pieces with values on them, ranging from +1 to +5 and -1 to -5, respectively. These items represent integer values during problem-solving. Problem Sheet: 10 problems focused
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6th - 9th
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Personal Budget Worksheet
Worksheet for careers research that works in reverse order. Students estimate amounts in each category to determine how much they will then need to earn each month to meet their needs.
Easily editable Word document, so you can change the estimate amounts to better reflect the costs in your community.
Useful for careers classes and college and university counseling.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Independent Living Skills Scenarios- Money Management and Cost of Living
PART 1 IN MY INDEPENDENT LIVING SKILLS ACTIVITIES!! Independent Living Skills activities including calculating wages from hourly salary and calculating cost of living.This download includes the following:IN THE NIK OF TIME Cover Page (1 page)How To Use (1 page)Independent Living Skills Scenarios- Money Management (2 pages)Independent Living Skills- Cost of Living (1 page)Independent Living Skills Scenarios- Money Management Answer Key (2 pages)In completing the Independent Living Skills Scenario
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6th - 12th
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Scientific Notation Virtual Field Trip/Scavenger Hunt
COOLEST WEBSITE EVER!!!! Have your students go on a scientific notation scavenger hunt and make connections/observations about scientific notation and standard form. Great intro/hook lesson!
Note: The website now costs money, but there is an older version that is free.
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Grades:
7th - 9th
Functional Vending Machine
This powerpoint is used to engage students before learning about functions. When you click on a number it will go to the coresponding candy. If you press the push button on the machine it will lead you to a table. You can ask the students is this a functional vending machine. They will say yes because if the press a button you get the candy in that spot. Explain and relate to them the definition of a math function. (Every input has exactly one output)
You can engage students even more by givin
Grades:
9th - 12th
Probability & Statistics - A Simulated Approach
In 1994 I wrote an alternative curriculum for our Probability and Statistics students at Chippewa Falls (Wisconsin) High School that employed Monte Carlo simulations. The students’ reactions were so positive that we increased our one section of this course to three sections in just three years. As a consequence, I asked another math teacher at our school to teach a section of this course and over the next nine years, two additional teachers were also teaching sections of this course. One of tho
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10th - 12th
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Unit Circle Trigonometry
Allows students to visualize the right triangles within the unit circle to find the trigonometric functions. The attach file is the same unit circle students build (see produce listing as Unit Circle Parts)
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10th - 12th
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200+ Teaching Resource Weblinks
This document lists over 200 links to valuable websites and teaching resources. Links are listed under the subject categories of: English, Mathematics, Science, Geography, History, Social Studies, Commerce, Languages. For more Classroom Revision resources see my store and the MAKEorBREAK website.
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7th - 12th
FREE VERSION - The TOM Function Machine Converting Inputs into Outputs
The TOM Function Machine is an interactive Power Point that will allow your students to visually see a value being inputted into the machine, and an output that results.
You control when the input is entered and when the output is shown, giving you time and opportunities to have discussions with students. After visually seeing input-output relationships, students can guess what the function rule is. Your press a button to reveal the rule and see if students were correct.
See it in action here
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Grades:
6th - 10th
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