8th Grade Algebra Activities

Students will love this Jeopardy-like game to review all Common Core Ratios and Proportional Relationship standards. Questions focus on rates and unit rates, identifying and representing proportional relationships, solving problems with proportions, finding and using percent, percent change (increase, decrease, error), and key vocabulary words. Points range from 100 - 500, which reflect the increase in difficulty throughout each category.

**FULLY EDITABLE** While the game is complete, it is also editable in PowerPoint, making it easy to add questions or change the level of difficulty based on your students' needs.

Rates and Unit Rates: students are asked to find unit rates/the constant of proportionality given graphs, tables, and real-lilfe situations

Identify and Represent Proportional Relationships: in this category students use graphs, tables and real-life situations to determine whether or not something is proportional

Solve Problems with Proportions: these questions focus on using what students know about rates, unit rates, the constant of proportionality, and proportional relationships to answer real-world situations

Find and Use Percent: here students find percent scores on tests, use sales tax and discounts to calculate final prices and answer real-life problems

Percent Change: this section asks students to find percent change (increase and decrease), percent error, and use these percent to find new values

Vocabulary: this sections asks about proportionality, complex fractions, and key components to expressing ratios as graphs and equations

Interested in other 7th grade math game-show review games?
7th Grade Number Systems (Integers and Rational Numbers) Review Game

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Bring the magic of Christmas to your classroom with this festive Christmas Math Escape Room Bundle!

Includes three versions—Google Forms, Slide Presentation, and printable classroom stations—giving you flexible options to suit any teaching style.

With engaging puzzles and a holiday storyline, students will work together to solve math challenges, retrieve codes, and unlock the final mystery word to “Help Santa save Christmas!”

What’s Inside:

• Google Forms Version: An interactive digital escape room that guides students through the storyline, puzzles, and answers with automatic feedback. Perfect for digital classrooms!
• PowerPoint/PDF Version: Printable and adaptable for in-class play; students solve puzzles and progress by getting their codes checked by the teacher.
• Printable Classroom Stations: Set up 7 puzzle stations around your classroom with an additional teacher’s station for code-checking. Students rotate through each station, adding an exciting hands-on element to the activity.
• Worksheet: Students can keep track of their work, show their solutions, and record codes, essential for cracking the final mystery word.
• Teacher’s Manual: Step-by-step setup instructions, suggested skills, and activity ideas for early finishers.

IMPORTANT NOTE! Students must know the following math/algebra topics:

• Plotting points on a coordinate plane
• Solving multi-step linear equations
• Simplifying fractions
• Calculating perimeter
• Finding speed (division practice)

Why Teachers Love It:

• Flexible Formats: Choose the version that best fits your classroom needs.
• Engaging & Collaborative: Keeps students motivated, working in teams, and building critical thinking skills.
• Holiday Fun with Math Practice: A great way to reinforce essential math skills in a festive format.
• Easy Setup & Guided Instructions: Comes with a complete teacher’s manual and answer key for a smooth experience.

Celebrate the season with this Christmas Math Escape Room Bundle—students will love helping Santa save Christmas while practicing essential math skills!

OTHER CHRISTMAS CLASSROOM GAMES:

• It's a Match (like Spot It / Dobble)
• Christmas Mystery: Crack the Code Worksheet
• Memory Game
• This or That
• OOPS Taboo-Like Game

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Engage your students with this fun and interactive mystery-solving activity while reinforcing key algebra skills! In this activity, students work through 18 evaluating expressions problems to uncover clues and solve a mystery.

How It Works:

• Students solve each problem, then find their answer on the Who, Where, When sheet.
• As they match each correct answer, they’ll cross off boxes.
• The final three boxes that remain uncrossed will reveal who committed the mystery, where it happened, and when it occurred!

This hands-on approach helps students practice evaluating expressions in an engaging, puzzle-like format. It’s perfect for review, homework, or an in-class activity.

What’s Included:

• 18 evaluating expressions problems:
• Who, Where, When mystery sheet to guide students through solving the puzzle.
• Modified guided version for differentiated instruction, helping all students succeed.
• Answer Key

Students will love the challenge of solving both the math and the mystery!

LESSON: ONE_STEP EQUATIONS PUZZLE GAME

GRADE LEVEL: MIDDLE SCHOOL

TIME FRAME: 1 HOUR

OBJECTIVE:

o The learner will work to solve one-step equations with rational numbers.

o The learner will solve equations that include decimals fractions, to solve for x.

MATERIALS:

o Scissors

o Zip lock bags

o Construction paper and glue

o Optional: lamination for storage and reuse. If you choose this, construction paper and glue will not be needed, as they will not glue the pieces to construction paper.

o Print out of puzzle for the instructor as an answer sheet.

PREPARATION:

Students will be working in pairs to complete the equations puzzle, which requires students to solve one-step equations with rational number. Place students in teams of two. Duplicate enough copies for each team to have one puzzle. Cut out the puzzle pieces and place them into a Ziplock bag.

Optional: You may laminate the puzzle pieces for reuse if you choose to keep the pieces to use one year to the next. However, you will not need construction paper and glue if lamination is chosen.

INTRODUCTION: (20 minutes)

Ask students what constitutes an equation.

Answer: An equation says that two things are equal, and may contain two or more

variables.

Ask students what constitute a rational number.

Answer: A number that you can put into fraction such a decimal, fraction, percent or

whole number.

Review how to work through a one-step equation using the following equations:

• 5x=80 Answer (16)

• x+-20=17 Answer: (37)

• x-(-10)=-10 Answer: (-20)

• x-4 1/3=2 2/3 Answer: (7)

HELPFUL VIDEO: (10 minutes)

Helpful Youtube video links included.

TEAM ACTIVITY: (30 minutes)

Provide each team with a puzzle in a Ziplock bag. Provide students 15-30 minutes to solve the equations and place the puzzle together. You may even encourage a competition to see which groups can complete the puzzle first providing prizes to first place, second place, and third place. Once they have the puzzle completed, have them glue it to a piece of construction paper if you have not chosen to laminate the game pieces for reuse.

CLOSURE / EVALUATION: (20 minutes)

Using an overhead projector or smart board projector that will display the puzzle pieces, work with the class to solve the puzzle. Students will check their answers.

ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY/HOMEWORK

Give students a blank chart and allow them to create a puzzle for that they can give to another group/student to complete. Make sure the student keeps a copy of the puzzle to act as the answer sheet.

TEACHER’S ANSWER SHEET

Each puzzle has the answers in itself before being cut into puzzle pieces. The equations on the outer edges of the puzzle will not have answers to match. This makes the puzzle more challenging

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In this activity, students will have 15 problems with integer answers. They will practice solely one-step addition and subtraction questions, with varying set-ups and variables. There is room to show work!

This is a great resource for independent practice, catch-up, or to assign with a substitute.

Please check the preview to see ALL 15 questions so you can determine the suitability for your classroom!

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Bring real-world context to exponential functions with this engaging activity focused on conservation efforts for Australia’s endangered koala population! This resource helps students:

• Key Skills: Write exponential equations in the form y=a(1+r)^t and use them to make future predictions.
• Real-World Connection: Explore exponential growth and decay through the lens of environmental conservation.
• Classroom Ready: Perfect for Algebra 1 or any class studying exponential functions.

This activity combines math and real-world problem-solving, offering students a meaningful and relevant application of exponential functions!

A very interesting piece of the Real-Life Math puzzle that is the ultimate Back-to-school activity!

This resource is a middle and high school task, with complete key on factors, multiples, products, remainders and divisibility. The math covered is fundamental to RSA encryption, the surprise is, it is actually very easy and can be mastered by any middle or high schooler.

This resource works great as ...

• an assessment exercise
• a task
• independent work
• distance learning
• math stations
• math centers
• homework
• constructive group work when introducing the topic.

You might also want to look at the Bundle for all the Math for the RSA Cryptosystem!

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Multiplication (Times) Tables, Products, Factors, Multiples, Prime Numbers and Rules for Divisibility form an important part of the RSA Public Key Cryptosystem. It is important that students know (and that teachers always remind them) when they are busy with these topics, that they are learning fundamental mathematics needed to encrypt data and secret messages.

This task, (with key), focuses on ...

Multiplication Tables

Listing Products in a set

Listing all the Factors of an Integer in a set

Listing Multiples of an Integer in a set

The proper notation for Factors, Products and Multiples

The qualities of Prime and Composite Numbers

The Rules of Divisibility of Integers

Exciting News: This task is the first of 7 that will teach students ALL the mathematics they need to be able to do RSA Encryption. You can find them all here.

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This Scavenger Hunt has 20 linear equations where the variable is on both sides. In each of these one side of the equation is a fraction - a linear expression divided by an integer.

• Print off the twenty question pages and put them up around the room

• Each question is in the middle of the page and the solution is at the top of another page.

• A student begins on a given question, solves it and finds the answer on another sheet. The question on this sheet will be the next question they answer. Once they have answered all twenty, they will return to their starting question

• Depending on numbers, students can all start on different questions

• There is a student answer sheet included plus the correct sequence

LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they cannot be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.

COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Level Ups are a fun way to challenge your students to complete various levels of mastery on working with solving single variable equations. Aligned to the common core standards, Level Ups provide 5 levels of challenge for your students to complete, starting with pre-requisite one-step equation and algebraic expression skills all the way up to writing and solving equations with variables on both side of the equal sign.

Students start at level zero and work their way up to level 4, giving them accurate feedback on what they have mastered, and what they still need to work on. This lesson works as a great way to review equation solving after teaching the concepts, or as preparation for an upcoming assessment.

This activity includes:

• Suggested activity instructions (based on how I run this in my classroom).
• Five levels with 6 - 12 questions each.
• Complete answer keys for each level.

If you enjoy this activity, please check out my other Level Up products, or my Team Target Review series, which encourages group work and rich math discussion.

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This Pdf+Png file Halloween themed cut and paste , it's a nice way to help kids learning math

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Celebrate Your halloween with your kids (students) and these cut and paste worksheets.

Connect is a math-based card game that engages students. They can practice any math skill and have fun in this fast-paced environment. Students use flashcard-like playing cards and math symbols to match each other's cards. When there is a match, both players shout out the answer to the shown equation, and the fastest player wins!

The catch is, there could be multiple matches in a round when the top cards are taken off, creating a chain reaction of fun!

The best part is, you can edit the cards using Google Slides to fit any of your needs! This game can be used for ANY skill. Currently, the game is set up for solving trinomials when a = 1, but you can replace equations as you see fit. It's easy change the cards to addition, fractions, percent, solving equations, factoring, etc.

Even though the game is designed for math, you could switch the game from math equations to sight words, rhyming words, description words, science words, important dates in history, etc. The cards are editable!

Contents:

* 90 cards (6 sheets)

-80 EDITABLE equation cards

-10 Connect cards

-6 blank cards

* Instruction Manual with complete gameplay description

Helpful hint: Printing out the sheets on cardstock or laminating the cards will help make them last longer.

Thanks for checking us out! Check back for more games from Howlin' Husky Math Games!

✨Unlock the Fun in Learning Finding the Slope of a Line Given an Equation!

Engage your students with an exciting kinesthetic activity designed specifically for mastering finding the slope of a line given an equation! With 11 interactive stations, this engaging learning activity will get your students moving and thinking critically.

How It Works:

• Start with a Student Sheet: Each student receives a scavenger hunt sheet to track their progress. Students may select where to begin, or you may assign them to a particular station.
• Solve and Record: At each poster, students solve the challenge problem at the bottom of the poster, record their answer on the student recording sheet, and find their next destination based on their answer.
• Explore and Discover: Once students find their answer, they are going to “sprint” (or walk calmly ☺) to the poster with their answer at the top of it.
• Collaborate and Compete: As they sprint (or walk calmly) to new stations, they can work cooperatively while reinforcing key concepts.

Why Choose Our Scavenger Hunt?

✅Promotes Active Learning: Keeps students engaged through movement

and collaboration.

✅Reinforces Key Skills: Focuses on understanding finding the slope of a line
given a graph in a fun, interactive way.

✅Flexible Setup: Perfect for any classroom environment—adaptable to your
teaching style!

✅Print & Go Resource: Simply print and post the stations randomly around
the activity space. Easy.

Ready to transform your lessons? Don’t miss out on this highly engaging learning experience!

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Check out these other Scavenger Hunt activities:

SCAVENGER HUNT Linear Inequalities

SCAVENGER HUNT Linear Equations and Inequalities

SCAVENGER HUNT Direct and Inverse Variation

SCAVENGER HUNT One-step Inequalities

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For this activity, your students/children will plot 12 ordered pairs within the 4 quadrant coordinate plane grid. Each ordered pair has a colored circle that the student will drag to the correct place on the grid.

Included in this resource:

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2. one teacher/parent answer key

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Enhance your students' understanding of factoring polynomials with these 40 engaging task cards! Designed for grades 8-11, these cards cover a variety of factoring techniques, including factoring quadratics, difference of squares, and grouping. Perfect for classroom activities, small group work, or independent practice!

What's Included:

• 40 Task Cards: featuring a range of polynomial expressions to factor
• student worksheet : for students to provide their answers.
• Answer Key: A detailed answer key for all task cards, including step-by-step calculations.

Engage your 7th and 8th-grade students with this interactive Factoring Expressions Activity featuring an art Picture Mystery Reveal! This digital activity, hosted on Google Sheets, includes 20 problems that challenge students to factor expressions, reinforcing key algebra skills in an engaging and rewarding format.

Features:

• Picture Art Reveal: Each correct answer reveals part of a hidden picture, turning green to show success and red to indicate a retry is needed for incorrect answers. Watch students stay motivated as they work to complete the picture!
• Self-Checking and Interactive: Immediate feedback helps students learn as they go, ensuring they stay on track. Correct answers reveal parts of the picture, making learning both fun and interactive.
• Perfect for Digital Classrooms: Ideal for distance learning, math centers, or independent practice, this activity can be easily assigned through Google Sheets, allowing students to practice factoring anytime.

With this Factoring Expressions Mystery Picture Reveal activity, students build confidence in algebra skills while enjoying a hands-on digital learning experience. Perfect for grades 7 and 8, this resource combines skill-building with interactive fun!

End of Year "Math Talk" Activity for Middle School or High School Students

This resource features an engaging "Math Talk" activity that will have your students thinking, writing, speaking, and moving all in one class period during the last week of school! In this activity, they must choose between 6 different quotes about math and articulate why the quote aligns with their perspective on math. I use this lesson at the end of every year to see how my students' perspectives on math have developed and matured throughout the school year. This is perfect if you are looking for an engaging lesson plan during the one of the toughest weeks of the year!

Product includes:

- Comprehensive Lesson Plan

- "Math Talk" Sheet for students to fill out

- 6 Corresponding "Math Quote" signs to hang up around your room

Though I utilize this product during the last week of school, it really can be used all year long. I hope that it is as successful in your class as it is in mine!

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Let your students practice while having fun with this engaging no-prep, Thanksgiving-themed, and self-checking one-step equations activity.

Students will solve 20 one-step equations with rational coefficients using Google Sheets.

I used it as a sub-plan in eighth grade and the kids loved it.

As they correctly answer the questions a mystery picture will be revealed.

The answers include fractions and negative numbers.

Solutions are included for your convenience.

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Here's a 10-15 day set of activities for introducing the LEGO Mindstorms Robots!

In this packet, you get:

* SEVEN Robot activities!

* An EXCEL Activity creating a multiple line graph.

* Programming challenges from basic to hard.

* Build Guide for "Reece's Runner" Robot

* Robot Challenge Design Plans

I use this as a 10-day Module in my classroom.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.EE.A.3

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.EE.B.5

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.EE.A.1

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSA.REI.A.1

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSA.REI.B.3

Solving Equations is tackled in four ways to help students understand the concept.

* Multiple step equation with one variable on each worksheet. There are four ways to approach the equation!

Included:

* 3 worksheets

* Answer key included!

More on solving equations:

Solving One-Step Equations

Solving Two-Step Equations

Solving Equations with Parenthesis and Variable on Both Side

Solving Equations by Clearing Fractions

Solving Equations by Clearing Decimals

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