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Middle school geometry resources for GATE under $5
Patterns, The Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio
No Prep Ready-to-Go Printables! Explore number patterns in your classroom with this exciting Fibonacci resource! *Updated October 2023!*Investigating the Fibonacci Sequence is a wonderful way to explore number and pattern through making authentic connections to the world we live in.The Fibonacci numbers have been described as ‘nature’s numbering system’ because of the mysterious way they continuously pop up in the natural world! They have intrigued mathematicians for hundreds of years – so why
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4th - 7th
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Create Your Own Dream House Project - Using Area & Perimeter
This project requires students to design a dreamhouse using graph paper (provided in this resource). Once students have designed their dreamhouse they are then asked to find the area and perimeter of all objects in their house. I have provided a list of suggestions and student-friendly directions. This is a fun project that will get kids motivated about practicing area and perimeter concepts. Included in this download are the following:-Teacher Directions/Helpful Hints-Student Directions-Student
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3rd - 6th
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Pythagorean Theorem Project Pirate Treasure Hunt
Challenge your students to find the treasure by using Pythagorean Theorem to explore the pirate territory. Students follow a scenario of problems to find a treasure buried by Pythagoras. Student tested and approved.✔Included in this resource:• Pirate treasure hunt scenario• Pirate map • Student directions and problems• Directions for extension for student-created treasure hunts• Answer keyMultiple ways to use:- Set up at a math-center with other pythagorean theorem activities- Differentiate by
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8th - 9th
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Also included in: Pythagorean Theorem Bundle for PreAlgebra or Geometry
Design a Cube City...a study in volume!
Students use isometric dot paper to draw 3-D buildings and design their own cube cities. This project is a great culmination to any study in volume.
Contents:
1. Teaching Notes
2. Student Sheets:
*Learn to Draw Cubes and Rectangular Prisms
*Draw Rectangular Prisms practice sheet
*Design a Mini Metropolis instruction sheet
*Metropolis Information Sheet, a table to collect information on volume and cost (3 options are included so teachers can select the one that best fits their students' needs:
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4th - 6th
iLogo Slope Activity Graphing Lines Project Based Learning (PBL) with Math
Students will love creating their own custom logo design by graphing linear equations, finding the slope of a line on the coordinate plane, locating the y-intercept, and writing their equations in slope-intercept form. You will love the flexibility of this student driven project. Rigor is high but student engagement is even higher!The purpose of the iLogo Slope Activity Project is to give students an opportunity to use slope in an artistic endeavor that has real-world applications. Every company
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7th - 11th
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4 Pi Day Math Activities | Math & Art Projects | Coloring Circles | Pie Chart
4 Math & Art Projects to celebrate Pi Day that include circles and Pi exploration! Your students will love these Pi Day activities! Let your students express themselves using these hands-on Math & Art resources during the exploration of Pi.Content:- Your version of a piece of π (pie). The first 100 digits of Pi. Frequency Pie Chart.- Pi Bar Graph - the circular version.- The spiral of a piece of Pi.- Cut the Pi pie.This resource includes:- The editable PowerPoint™ version.- The printable
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4th - 8th
Da Vinci Parachute Prototypes -- Hands-on STEM
In this lesson, students solve geometry problems and learn background physics concepts as they build a working model of Leonardo Da Vinci’s parachute. Logic, critical thinking, a bit of Renaissance history, writing and supporting conclusions with details from a source—it’s all here too!
Make this extended lesson a cross-curricular, standards-based mini-unit, or just make it a cool building activity. Pick and choose the level of commitment right for you and your students. With the suggested e
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4th - 8th
Daily Math Challenge
Updated 2/13/14
This 56 page digital file contains 50 math challenges with answer keys. These could be used as a warm-up or a problem of the day. I use them as a warm-up with my gifted class. It gets the kids thinking and problem solving. The math challenges include:
mental math
math analogies
mystery number
logic puzzles
find the order
shape puzzles
patterns
Thanks for stopping by!
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3rd - 6th
Coordinate Plane Graphing Parabolic Curves Math & Art 4 Quadrants String Art
Geometry Math Project - Practice ordered pairs plotting by using this fun activity. Make beautiful parabolic curves by drawing a series of straight lines.It's a great activity for the First Days of School, Back to School, Summer Camp, Summer School, or End of the Year.Can we draw a beautiful picture using only straight lines? Yes, we can. Check out this math & art project.Why do students love mystery picture graphing? They love discovering the next parts of the picture and guessing what it w
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6th - 9th
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Gifted Education Toothpick Bridge Unit
Gifted Education Toothpick Bridge Unit
This exciting project is "Common Core Aligned" for Math and ELA. This unit takes an intriguing look at bridges. Students become classroom engineers! They will be involved with a WebQuest, research, building a model, measurement of angles and finding the area of triangles. Students will also write a report to present to the class. This unit involves at least 4-6 class periods. Pictures, WebQuest, Compare and Contrast T-Chart, and Rubric are included in this
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3rd - 8th
Pentomino Puzzles - Logic & Problem Solving Activities
For these introductory puzzle shapes, 10 of the 12 pentomino piece shapes can form puzzles that can be solved using only four of the pentomino pieces. Challenge your students to solve each one. There can be more than one solution in many of the puzzles!
Versatile activities for warm-up brain teasers, early finisher folders, or learning centers! Emphasize the use of Visual/Spatial Smarts, Kinesthetic/Body Smarts, and Logic Smarts multiple intelligences.
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-- "Transformations Poster" als
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1st - 6th
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Pi Day - Area and Radius Activities - Geometry Logic Puzzles
Just in time for Pi Day! This puzzle two pack has two challenging and engaging logic puzzles to enhance any review on radius, diameter and area of circles. Set includes 2 Logic Puzzles. Whose Pie Is It, Anyway? is a traditional 2 tier matrix grid puzzle. Your students will match each person with one pie and also the area of the pie using process of elimination, critical reading and deductive reasoning. Some of the clues only give a radius or diameter so calculation is a must! 3.14 is
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8th - 12th
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Toothpick Puzzles
These puzzles and just a few toothpicks for each student and you have an excellent activity to challenge student thinking. Consider using this resource with your intellectually gifted students. Maybe pose a puzzle in the morning and talk about solutions later in the day or the next day. As students become familiar with the puzzles, they can pose new ones for classmates!The thirty-two puzzles are included three different formats - choose the one you like best: ♥ Small cards can be printed two-si
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3rd - 6th
Exponents & Radicals Activities Project - Project Based Learning (PBL) with Math
Ignite student imagination with sixteen exponents and radicals activities! Watch students explore the rules of exponents and simplify radicals, while making creative connections and leveraging math strategies. No two projects are identical!This student-led activity allows students to choose their activity for each operation. There are eight exponents activities, and eight radicals activities, one for each of the multiple intelligences. Understanding and enjoyment increase when the personal inter
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Exponents Activities Bundle – 8th Grade PBL with Math
Friday Math -- Baseball Card Probability Game
This series of activities will challenge students’ Common Core skills and critical thinking skills in a variety of ways!
How do baseball video game developers design their video games so that Major League players perform with relative accuracy according to their real-life strengths and weaknesses? They begin with statistics and probability.
In this series of activities, students will apply probability (expressed as fractions and dice rolls) in order to design a baseball card which will be use
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4th - 8th
Also included in: KID CREATED GAMES Standards-based STEM and Math Games Bundle
Angle Pair Relationships Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal Math & Art Project
Mystery Picture Missing Angle Puzzles (Heart) - Supplementary Angles, Vertical Angles, Special Angle Pairs when two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. You can use it for Valentine’s Day or at any time of the year.Use this activity to find missing angles in triangles and quadrilaterals and practice identifying angle pair relationships, and parallel lines cut by a transversal.Calculate the angle measurements marked with question marks, write the angle measurements in the picture and color it
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7th - 10th
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Friday Math: "Hands-on" Scaling -- Ratios and Fractions
Why not spice up the common core standards with this (literally) hands-on activity? It's a perfect fit for a Friday or two or for an extension to challenge advanced learners.
Students will use critical thinking to explore area, scale, fractions, ratios, and spatial relations by tracing their hand and transforming their hand to 1:4 scale. An extension activity extends this lesson to art and mechanical drawing applications.
This lesson is recommended for 4th or 5th grade gifted and talented an
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Fraction Mandala Art | + options: Decimals and Percentages | Pie Chart Drawing
Let your students express themselves using this hands-on Math & Art project during the exploration of fractions (additional options: decimals and percentages). Your students will love this Fraction Math Challenge that will allow your students to creatively visualize fractions or, if you choose more difficult versions, decimals and percentages as well. In addition, students will create a pie chart from the mandala they chose, so they will also practice drawing angles. The challenge is: How ma
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5th - 8th
Easter Bunny Art Challenge
This is the perfect critical thinking activity that gets kids thinking about geometry! Easter Bunny Art STEM Challenge❤️ will get your students problem solving and thinking critical during the holiday. Students use geometric shapes to create an Easter Bunny. Students measure the perimeter of the shapes. This activity is a great way to introduce the difference between quadrilaterals and triangles.
⭐This activity can also be used for STEAM Activities, STEM After School Programs, Summer Progra
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3rd - 7th
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Gifted Education Lesson Plans Geodesic Dome Project Cross-Curricular
Gifted Education Lesson Plans Geodesic Dome Project Cross-Curricular Unit like Epcot Center
This exciting project is "Common Core Aligned" for Math and ELA. This unit takes an intriguing look at geodesic domes. This type of structure is found as jungle gyms on playgrounds or even buildings like the Epcot Center! Students will be involved with a WebQuest, research, building a model, measurement of angles and finding the area of triangles. Students will also write a report to present to the
St. Patrick's Day Clover STEM Challenge
This is the perfect critical thinking activity that gets kids thinking about geometry! St. Patrick's Day 4 Leaf Clover STEM Challenge❤️ will get your students problem solving and thinking critical during the holiday. Students use congruent triangles to create a 4 Leaf Clover. Students measure the perimeter of the triangles. This activity is a great way to introduce the different types of triangles.
⭐This activity can also be used for STEAM Activities, STEM After School Programs, Summer Pro
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3rd - 7th
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STEM Kid Constructions - TOPS! Cool Lessons from the Core
Tops are the tops! Let’s make our own and experiment!
Who would have thought we could blend so much science, engineering, and math into this simple little toy?
You’ve probably seen those valentines where you can punch out a circle and insert a pencil to make a top. Those are hugely disappointing. These tops, however, are COOL!
Anytime we do something cool in the classroom, we want to sneak in plenty of content with it, right? Such is the case here, and you’ll find Common Core State Standa
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented SURVIVAL KIT Bundle -- 235 pages, big discount!
Friday Math - Penny Tile Flooring for Upper Elementary and GATE
Another Friday Math lesson for hands-on learning across several Common Core Standards . . . at least 22 standards from 2nd to 6th grade: multiplication, division, decimals, area, geometry arrays, expressing ratios, public speaking and listening, and more!
In this lesson, students apply math skills to determine the number of pennies required to tile a kitchen floor. They’ll make strong hands-on, visual-mathematic connections for area and multiplication as they tackle this real-life DYI dilem
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3rd - 6th
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March Madness Basketball Math Enrichment- Whodunnit Math Mystery
Who stole the teacher's basketball bracket?This fun and challenging activity has students up and moving to solve a variety of problems. There are 10 problems with a focus on: geometry/customary measurement problem solving (perimeter, symmetry, rectangles, squares); adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators; fractions of a set; adding/subtracting/multiplying decimals; algebra/coordinate graphing/order of operations; multiplication and division problem solving- all with a fun March
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5th - 8th
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