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Critical thinking Common Core 6.EE.B.7 resources
STEM Space Lander Math & Engineering Activity (Printed & Digital)
Space Lander STEM ChallengeThis STEM activity is one of our favorite engineering design challenges! The combination of marshmallows (or ping pong balls) and aliens makes this a winning STEM challenge! In the Space Lander Challenge, student teams build a lander using the engineering design process to keep two marshmallow "aliens" or "astronauts" inside a cup as it is dropped from various heights. Using straws, index cards, and mini marshmallows or cotton balls, students apply concepts of shock ab
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5th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Middle School
Christmas Math Activities | Math Escape Room | Grades 6 and 7
This product is a fun and engaging Christmas themed math game based on the Escape Room attractions that can be found across the world. Similar to the Escape Room attractions, students will be “locked in” during this game, and the object is to find the codes to “escape” within a given time period.Students are volunteers at their local mall, but an impostor locks them into the gift wrapping room with the intention of stealing all the donation money. The object of the escape room activity is to unc
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6th - 8th
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Winning At The Money Game Financial Literacy Bundle (3rd - 12th grade)
Complete with the Winning At The Money Game Teacher's Guide, Student Workbook, and a bonus: The Winning At The Money Game Train-The-Trainer Guide educators will be provided 574 pages of evidence-based, carefully crafted lessons to cater to the diverse learning styles of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners, ensuring that every student can effectively acquire financial knowledge and skills. And it’s all through the game of basketballHere is an example of the many resources you share with yo
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3rd - 12th
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Balance Benders Beginning Level Workbook of Logic & Algebraic Reasoning Puzzles
A 48-page printable PDF mind flexing and exercising puzzle ebook for grades 2-6. Move over Sudoku, here come Balance Benders™! You can use these activities as quick, fun logic problems or as stepping stones to success in algebra. Students develop problem-solving skills and pre-algebra skills as they solve balance puzzles that are more fun and addictive than Sudoku puzzles! Students must analyze each balance to identify the clues, and then synthesize the information to solve the puzzle. Try one—a
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2nd - 6th
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The Great Stock Market Challenge - Complete Math Unit
Suitable and adapted for grades 5-12Open the Preview to see more detailed informationWatch the movie to see a high speed play through of the presentationThis complete cross-curricular unit has students learn about companies, research stocks, create a portfolio, track their performance, submit their project and write a test. Students will learn about real life financial literacy, trade-offs, decision making, strategies, and apply mathematical concepts.The unit runs about 10-14 weeks long, with an
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5th - 12th
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Halloween Basic facts Maths Puzzles
This set of logic puzzles, Halloween Basic facts Maths Puzzles, covered the topics of Patterns and Basic facts, using Times tables facts, simple Multiplication 2-digit numbers by one-digit number. #monstermathsale3 task cards with answers were included in this packet. Here you will find tasks for 3 different maths level students (easy, medium, and hard). So it could be used in a classroom for all of your students or as a series of the questions from easy to hard. Each level uses the strategy of
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3rd - 6th
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The Amazing Math Race
Engage your classroom in The Amazing Math Race. Review skills from throughout the school year. Appropriate for 6-8th grade students.Adapt this to your classroom how you see fit, with 17 different activities, you decide if this is a yearlong part of your classroom or take a day or a few to complete this fun activity as a class.Math Included: Diamond Math, Probability, Mazes, Graphing, Fractions, Ratios, problem solving, Unit rates, Calendar, Distance, Number System, Systems, research, measures of
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6th - 9th
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Escape the Classroom Middle School/Upper Elementary NO PREP Mystery puzzle with
Please see the video preview for a full walkthrough of this fun critical thinking adventure. It's the last day of school, and time to go -- but the classroom is locked! Can you solve the clues to escape?” Your kids will love this challenging but not frustrating escape room! This room is designed with upper elementary and middle school grades in mind and addresses some specific standards and skills in a fun an engaging way. There are a number of puzzles and codes to solve, and learning happens na
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4th - 7th
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Holiday/Christmas Gingerbread House Project-Expressions and Equations
Fun 6th grade math project designing gingerbread houses! 5 page packet of problems that require writing, evaluating and generating expressions, solving equations, and writing and graphing inequalities.
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6th
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(QC) Quick Check Bundle #1
Quick Check Bundle (Plotting Inequalities on a Number Line, 1-Step Inequalities, Plotting Points on a Number Line, 1-Step Equations, Least Common Multiple)*****************************************************************************************************************************One-Step Equation Quick ChecksThis resource is an AWESOME tool that I use in my classroom everyday when we are covering expressions an equations in class. This resource helps student be exposed to the various 1-step equa
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5th - 7th
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Algebra Bundle 5 units 100+ pages Notes, Activities, Quizzes, and more
Algebra Bundle of 100+ pages. There is 5 units in this bundle. Each unit contains plans, notes, activities, interactive reviews, and a quiz. Included is my personal notes on things that I have used in my classroom. The topics of the 5 units are Exponents, Order of Operations, Math Properties, Combining Like Terms, and Solving Equations. Again each topic contains 20+ pages of content.
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4th - 7th
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Stock Market Simulation
Is your class playing the stock market game, but you don't have materials to help them work the game? Here you go! Help your students learn about the stock market through this bundle of stock market game activities aimed to help with the Stock Market Game.Inside this easy to use resource you will find:Two Research Pages-Stock Market Terms-The Great DepressionTwo Math Pages for Figuring Stock Prices -Searching current prices and figuring out price with broker's fee-Looking on chart to determine g
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Middle School Math Worksheets and PowerPoint Bundle
Maths Logic Puzzles using Multiplication and Addition
This set of logic puzzles, Multiplication and Addition, covered the topic Patterns and Algebra and use Addition numbers , Subtraction one and two-digit numbers, Times Tables and Multiplication 2-digit numbers by one-digit number. 16 task cards with answers were included in this packet. Here you will find tasks for 3 different maths level students (easy, medium, and hard). So it could be used in a classroom for all of your students or as a series of the questions from easy to hard because of each
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3rd - 6th
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Jan. 11 Math & Inventions Puzzle: 1st Clincial Use of the X-Ray | Algebra Review
January 11 of the Mystery Year was a key date in the development of X-rays. Algebra skills in clues for the puzzle involve solving problems by writing and solving equations, using variables to represent two quantities where one quantity is written in terms of the other, error analysis to find and correct an error in a series of steps, and logical reasoning. The clues for finding the year connect to the invention of the X-ray through a variety of problems dealing with unknowns. Your PDF download
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6th - 8th
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Thanksgiving Problem Solving/Critical Thinking
Help the hunters find the escaped turkeys! These critical thinking activities by Pamela Brock engage students in solving fun and sometimes comedic real life word problems involving place value, subtraction, multiplication, division, interpreting remainders, using variables, order of operations, finding and evaluating patterns and comparing numbers. The problem solving situations all revolve around the theme of Thanksgiving and integrate U.S. history, reading and mathematical concepts. It is g
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4th - 6th
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Feb. 27 Math and TV Puzzle: Fred (Mister) Rogers | Daily Mixed Review
February 27 is a day to remember Fred Rogers, a famous children's television host who passed away in the Mystery Year. Topics in this warm-up are logical reasoning, solving an equation, sum of numbers in a sequence, and Additive and Multiplicative Identity Properties. Clues for finding the year are based on quotes from Fred (Mister) RogersYour Zip download includes printable/digital PDFs:1-page printable Student Puzzle, also prepped for Easel1-page Answer Key with sample solutions1-page version
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6th - 8th
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Jan. 23 Mathematician Puzzle: Robert Moses, Math Literacy Advocate | Algebra
January 23 of the Mystery Year is the birthday of Robert "Bob" Moses, civil rights and math literacy advocate. Clues for the year involve the Pythagorean Theorem, setting up and solving an equation, rational & irrational numbers, square roots, and scientific notation. The clues have been structured so that they may be solved in several different ways. Your PDF download includes:2-page digital version with horizontal layout, prepped for Easel 1-page printable version6 pages of Teacher Notes i
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6th - 8th
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Smelly Jelly Stones Candy Conundrum - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:How would you plan an irresistible mix of jelly stones for a candy company in time for Halloween?Description:The mixologists at the Smelly Jelly Stones Candy Company are perplexed. They are planning their Howler Halloween Mix and want to know which flavors of jelly stones to include in their ghostly trick or treat packages. The Big Boss is waiting.From measurement conversion to calculating cost and profit, all you'll need is a calculator and your imagination to be successful wit
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6th - 7th
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Jan. 17 Math & U.S. History: Benjamin Franklin | Mixed Review | Magic Squares
Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17 of the Mystery Year. The clues for finding the year involve using reasoning or an algebraic equation, magic squares with integers, and scale factor. The problems connect to Benjamin Franklin's life, work, and inventions. Franklin enjoyed creating & solving magic squares, so a special Extension that uses transformation geometry to find 6 magic squares for a given set of numbers is included. Your PDF download includes:2-page digital version with horizon
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6th - 8th
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Writing Stations #1-5!
My Writing Stations integrate writing, and sometimes other content areas, into mathematics. I have provided a Sample solution to help you. You can use it as a station activity, but I have included here two other possible ways to use them. Feel free use them however you see fit to teach your students!Method 1 (Plan-free, easiest, and effective): 1. Pass out a paper copy to each student.2. Project the Sample but show nothing but the problem. 3. Have a student read the problem aloud.4. Give the stu
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6th
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