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Free middle school math simulations
Bank Account: The Checkbook Project class economy financial literacy
The Checkbook Project pumps life into a classroom the way the Paycheck Protection Program pumped cash into Corporate America. It improves test scores, inspires the entrepreneurial spirit, and even turns your most-challenging students into pussycats. We know, almost no one writes checks anymore, but The Checkbook Project isn’t about checks or paper money. It’s about creating an economic infrastructure in your classroom. It teaches financial literacy and real-world math skills while serving as an
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4th - 8th
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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
Balancing a Checkbook Activity Part of Classroom Economy Unit
This activity will help your students learn how to balance a checkbook. Included in this resource is a balancing a Checkbook Activity and Answer Key that is two pages.This is part of our larger Classroom Economy Simulation Bundle that your students will love.Find the bundle HERE!Visit Our Wise Guys Store Copyright ©Wise Guys. All rights reserved by author. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or disp
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4th - 7th
Maths Rainbow fact (numbers that add up to 10) reference cards
This product is part of my Math Rainbow Fact (numbers that add to 10) BUNDLE!
These cute little cards are great for students who are learning their rainbow facts! Students can make references to them when they are playing Rainbow fact games, and they can be used as a self correction tool.
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PreK - 6th
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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Thanksgiving Dinner Plan Performance Task
Thanksgiving Dinner Plan Performance Task printables can be used as independent work or group work. It includes multiple steps of mathematical operations and decision making. The mathematical operations of addition and subtraction are necessary to complete the task. If your students are familiar with basic multiplication facts, these can be substituted for some of the repeated addition problems.
The task can be completed in 1 day, however 2 days would allow students more time to use their crit
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3rd - 6th
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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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Tech Choices: Task Cards w/ QR Codes!
Recently updated 6/15
I am so excited to share these 40 technology choice task cards with you! I've complied some amazing resources in this group of cards and not only included the website, but also the QR code for easy scanning.
Thanks for downloading this product. I am so excited to use this in my classroom this year. I plan on printing, laminating, and cutting the cards. I will also use a metal ring to hold the cards together. I will keep these at the technology station in my classroom. If
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2nd - 6th
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“Decimal Number Builder” Build decimal numbers with base 10 blocks (digital)
Understanding place value is essential for developing a solid foundation of mathematical understanding. The Base 10 blocks are a great manipulative for visualizing and understanding place value for whole numbers and for decimal numbers. We have already created two digital activities/tools to practice modeling whole numbers with base 10 blocks. Number builder 4D and Number builder 6D. Number builder 4D uses (random) numbers up to 4 digits and number builder 6D uses numbers up to 6 digits. Today w
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4th - 7th
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Perimeter and Area Real World Task
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
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4th - 6th
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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: Financial Literacy/Socioeconomic Simulation 5-Day Unit
Unit Rate and Percent Project: Duct Tape Pencil Pouch Business Plan
This project asks students to form a fictitious business selling duct tape pencil pouches. Students complete a variety of math problems calculating the cost to produce the pouches, cost of labor, determining profit, setting selling prices, and creating manufacturers suggested retail prices.
What math is involved?
-Finding area of a rectangle (decimal or fraction)
-Finding unit rate and unit price
-Using percent of a number to determine profit/cost
-Decimal and whole number computational skil
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6th - 8th
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Let's Talk Turkey! Differentiated Thanksgiving Math
Reinforce your students' knowledge of estimating and addition with decimals with this "delicious" assignment! Students estimate the price of a Thanksgiving meal for a family of four people. They have four choices on how to gather the data, and then prepare presentation boards. This assignment is a perfect fit for classrooms with gifted and talented cluster groupings of students. A rubric is included that assesses all components of the assignments and ability levels.
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3rd - 6th
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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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Vacation Activity - Math Review (Great for State Testing Review!)
This activity requires students to think critically while using addition, subtraction, and multiplication while on "Vacation" together. I use this activity just before spring break each year for two reasons: 1) It makes a great test review just before state testing. 2) It gives students an appreciation for the sacrifices parents make to take spring break trips. The kids LOVE this activity. It's fun for me too!
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2nd - 6th
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2 Dice Probability Bingo Game
Simple Bingo game where students can use a bingo game as an experiment to discover which values are the highest probability in either the sum of 2 dice or the difference of 2 dice.
Students fill in the sheets with values they think will come up. They get to fill in one square per round if the have a value that matches the sum/difference of the dice. After the first game is played, it should be played again to allow students to use their understanding to improve their chances. Eg. using more
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5th - 8th
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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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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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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
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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K - 12th
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