6th grade math simulations for Microsoft Word

Trade and Barter: A Trading Simulation

Created by

Welcome to the world of economic exchange! Throughout history, people have traded, bartered, negotiated, and haggled in order to receive the greatest amount of goods for the lowest cost. From the direct trade of goods to the use of currency, people have found ways to satisfy their wants and needs. This trade simulation provides students with an opportunity to barter with imaginary resources and goods in order to obtain points. The premise for the simulation is the combination of resources. In th

Subjects:

Economics , Math, Social Studies - History

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Games, Simulations

Budget Spreadsheet Project (personal finance & math skills)

Created by

Evolving Math Class

A step-by-step project with detailed instructions on how to set up an Excel spreadsheet budget. Students will apply math skills in context of a real-life budgeting situation. Students will create a budget: -Based on their future career choice. -Independently by following the instructions using an Excel Spreadsheet. -Over the course of at least 2 class periods (typically students take at least 2.5 hours to complete this project).

Subjects:

Algebra, Basic Operations, Economics

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Projects, Simulations

CCSS:

6.RP.A.3c

, HSA-SSE.A.1

, HSF-LE.A.1b

Stock Market Game

Created by

Matthew Stanbro

This game is fun! Your students will love to do math when they invest in a fictional stock market. Your students will be excited to add, subtract, and multiply decimals. Here's how it works: The stock market includes 18 fictitious companies. "Current News" is released each day that affects the value of each stock. "Future Predictions" offer hints as to which stocks may go up or down. Students will buy and sell stocks as they hope to maximize their investment. Who will have the most money b

Subjects:

Decimals, Math

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Printables, Games, Simulations

Hands On LCM GCF Build It! Least Common Multiple, Greatest Common Factor

Created by

Mathematic Fanatic

Kids will master the concepts of least common multiple and greatest common factor by actually manipulating items into groups. With this fun, hands-on activity, the problems are already created for you! An answer key is provided. All you need is to print the worksheet and distribute base-ten blocks, Cuisenaire rods, strips of paper, or anything you have handy. Your students can work in pairs to model the situation and perform the correct operation to perform a hands-on GCF and a hands-on LC

Subjects:

Applied Math, Math, Word Problems

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

Consumer Math: On a Budget

Created by

Gridiron Design and Education

Students will learn how to set a personal budget while building a clothing wardrobe for themselves. Situation: A fire has destroyed all of your clothes. You must replace your entire wardrobe. The catch? You are on a strict budget. How strict? $400.00. The less you spend, the more you win. Skills: Finding percent; budgeting

Subjects:

Math, Problem Solving, Special Education

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Simulations

Real-life Budget activity

Created by

Jamie Lukey

This activity will be a guided class activity in which students choose their career from a list of careers and median salaries. The students will then use websites and given information to determine their school loan payments, buy a house, determine their mortgage, utilities, car payment, insurance and groceries/living expenses. The students will be able to complete a budget sheet and then a short 4 question reflection sheet from the activity. My students did this at the end of 8th grade math

Subjects:

Family Consumer Sciences, Math, School Counseling

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Worksheets, Projects, Simulations

Currency Conversions - Foreign Money - Proportions Worksheet

Created by

CreativeMathLessons

Are your students bored to tears with state assessments, math drills and dull text books? Are you bored to tears teaching the same proportion lesson over and over again just to hear them say "When are we ever going to use this?!" I created this lesson/worksheet to integrate a real life skill. I love to travel and thought this would be a great way to relate it to math. While this assignment meets typical state and local standards for "applying ratios and proportions to real life problems" it

Subjects:

Economics , Math, Math Test Prep

Grades:

6th - 11th

Types:

Study Guides, Printables, Simulations

24 STEM activities bundle including elementary & highschool challenges

Created by

ms teachershelper

Engage your students in a variety of science, technology, engineering and math lessons and challenges. Our bundle includes 12 elementary appropriate activities and 12 highschool appropriate activities.Activities included: Environmental Impact Study, Magnetic Slime, Straw Rocket Launcher and so much more!

Subjects:

Career and Technical Education, Math, Science

Grades:

3rd - 12th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Simulations

Animal Shelter Business Development Simulation (Gifted 3-5)

Created by

Vince Frosteg

This activity set was designed for use in a third through fifth grade gifted resource room. Students research, design, and plan for an animal shelter to house 10 dogs that are randomly assigned. Using these dogs students: <>complete a research matrix on common dog breeds. <>design a "blueprint" for the animal shelter using graph paper, measurements, and requirements. (Because this is usually the first simulation I use each year, the measurements are kept to squares.) <>figur

Subjects:

Gifted and Talented, Math

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Projects, GATE, Simulations

Statistics Mode, Median, Mean, Range Worksheet for Math or Psychology

Created by

Ready Set Learn Social Science

What's in the Hand: Activity makes learning mode, median, mean, and range fun. You will need two packs of playing cards in order to use 10 different variations. I use giant clothes pins to hold a total of 9 cards for each station. Each student gets a worksheet and is assigned to a group of 4-5 students. Students will complete the first rotation by figuring the mean, median, mode, and range, and then rotate to each other station in about 5 min intervals. At the end they will answer the questions

Subjects:

Algebra, Psychology, Statistics

Grades:

5th - 12th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Simulations

4th/5th STEAM Activity:Money, Decimals Percentage, Interest Rate, Stock Market!

Created by

Nicole Beinhorn

This activity is AMAZING!!! We used this in conjunction with our math unit on fractions and decimals and our literacy unit on Using Money and The Stock Exchange. It incorporates literally every discipline! **Editable! ----->Students are given a weekly budgeting scenario, where they must manage their account balance, write checks, and calculate withdrawals and deposits on a check register. It is differentiated to accommodate higher-level learners. This accelerated activity requires multiplyi

Subjects:

Decimals, Economics , English Language Arts

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Projects, Thematic Unit Plans, Simulations

Interior Design Living Room Information Gap Task Estar + Math Practice

Created by

Nell Weidenhamer

Content-based information gap task that uses math and measurements to fit furniture into a room, learning how to describe location using estar. A word bank of furniture is provided alongside the floor plan for each student.Student A has a completed floor plan of a living roomStudent B has a blank floor planStudents A and B have a bank of the furniture pictures and namesStudent A is an interior decorator, and student B is the client. The client calls the decorator to ask where all the furniture h

Subjects:

Math, Spanish, World Language

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Simulations

Math Role-Playing Game (Trip Planners): Travel Cards 1-20

Created by

Tammy Griffis

Trip Planners is a role-playing game that integrates math, geography, and writing. Students begin with a folder that includes an expense ledger, spiral notebook for journal writing, laminated United States road map, and a United States road atlas. Using the laminated road map, students plan a cross-country road trip. Next, students begin with $5,000 in their expense ledger. Students randomly choose a travel card. Each travel card represents one day of traveling on the road and include food

Subjects:

Decimals, Math, Writing-Expository

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

Homeschool Curricula, GATE, Simulations

Trip Planners II - Math Role-Playing Game: Travel Cards 21-40

Created by

Tammy Griffis

More hilarious and wacky fun featuring more complex math problem solving travel cards! This is a math role-playing game that integrates math problem solving, adding and subtracting money amounts, multiplying money amounts, geography, and writing. Students solve real-world problems as they travel using a road atlas. This compliments travel cards 1-20. Expense ledge template included. Meets common core math standards for Grade 5: Numbers & Operations in Base Ten and Grade 6: The Number System

Subjects:

Decimals, Math, Writing

Grades:

3rd - 8th

Types:

GATE, Games, Simulations

Perimeter and Area Real World Task

Created by

Shawn Walk

This task asks students to pretend they have been hired by a home improvement company to solve two problems for them. The first job requires students to examine the relationship between perimeter and area to help "Mr. Baker" design his garden. The second job focuses students on applying their understanding of area to help a family tile their kitchen. Let me know if you like it and I will upload some more tasks. Task by Shawn Walk Perimeter and Area Real World Task by Shawn Walk is licensed u

Subjects:

Measurement, Word Problems

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Projects, Simulations

Personal Shopper to the Stars- Research and Math Project

Created by

Becky Keith

What kid doesn’t have a famous person that they admire? Who doesn’t’ like to spend money? This download combines both interests into one motivational activity. In this project, students will research a famous person alive today, focusing on their hobbies, personal preferences, family life, etc. Then take the information they’ve learned about their famous person and become their personal shopper. They will then use a budget of $5,000 to buy gifts that fit their person’s lifestyle. The student

Subjects:

Applied Math, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Research, Activities, Simulations

Chewey Bubble Gum Company - Intro To Probability

Created by

Paige Laurain

Want to introduce your students to the probability of something happening? Want to peak their interest before you start a probability unit? This experiment based activity allows students to find the probability of something happening while having fun and popping bubble gum bubbles!

Subjects:

Applied Math, Geometry, Math

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Laboratory, Simulations

Cooking with Fractions

Created by

Courtney Jacklin

Fun performance task for 5th graders. Real world scenarios prompt students to determine how they are going to adjust a recipe and then multiply to find the new recipe. This task is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and multiplying fractions.

Subjects:

Fractions, Math, Word Problems

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Simulations

2 WEEK CLASSROOM STOCK MARKET - Financial Literacy for most Grade levels!

Created by

Michael Taverna

A two week (with room for adding or taking away) activity simulating the stock market in your classroom! Students will interact with 8 different age-appropriate 'stocks':- Gold, Shell gas, McDonald's, Banana, Air Canada, Cineplex, Nike, GoogleStart each day with an exciting, hands-on, and real-world skills based 15-20 mins of students buying, selling, and trading in the classroom stock market. Students will be able to practice mental math of all basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplic

Subjects:

Basic Operations, Business, Life Skills

Grades:

4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

Types:

Activities, Printables, Simulations

Farming Simulation Math Project

Created by

Heather Shumate

I created this project to used with my 4th grade highly-gifted class. It incorporates multiplication, division, decimals, money management, and area into a complex and engaging simulation project. Students work with a group to purchase fields and seeds to plant each "year". They then roll the dice to determine what the weather will be like that year and how it will affect their crop growth. Then, they calculate their profit by "selling" the crops that made it through the year. They purchase

Subjects:

Basic Operations, Math, Word Problems

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Projects, Simulations

City Block Math Project

Created by

Heather Shumate

This project was originally created to be used with highly gifted students in a fourth grade classroom, but can most definitely be adapted for other ages and abilities as well. Some skills that it focuses on: multiplication, division, perimeter, area, money, and drawing to scale. For this project, I create groups of students who together design a city block based on requirements that I have given them. They must find the area of each building and will later use these areas to determine costs

Subjects:

Basic Operations, Math, Measurement

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Simulations

Halloween Party - Math Problem Solving

Created by

Eric Jayne

In this activity, students will be planning a Halloween party for their class. They will need to "purchase" supplies for their party using a budget that you set. I set a budget that forces the students to make budget choices, i.e., I don't give them enough to buy everything they want. Students will work in partners to plan their party, making decisions based on their budget constraints. Students are also asked to perform some data analysis on the party choices. This is a good activity to do

Subjects:

Halloween, Math, Statistics

Grades:

3rd - 7th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Simulations

Project Based Learning - Building A Math Lab

Created by

"Purr"fect Plans

Integrating Technology and Engineering in a Math classroom is an ideal lesson plan for a STEM school. This project requires students to create a math lab for their school by designing the room, making technology purchases, buying math related materials, preparing cost analysis graphs using Excel, writing persuasive letters, and creating a movie advertisement to sell their math lab. It is a great way to involve the community by inviting in guest speakers. My students worked on this project o

Subjects:

Applied Math, Computer Science - Technology, Writing

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

Projects, Simulations

Stock Market Project

Created by

DoctorJH

These are student instructions and handouts for a stock market unit. Included: Instructions on how to use Investopedia's FREE stock market game A portfolio worksheet for students to track their stocks A table for students to fill in when researching which stocks to purchase The unit is intended to last at least 5 weeks and take up about two 45 minute class periods per week. Lesson plans will need to be developed, and I recommend having at least one prior lesson on the history of the stock mar

Subjects:

Business, Family Consumer Sciences, Math

Grades:

5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

Types:

Activities, Simulations

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6th grade math simulations for Microsoft Word

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