8th Grade Applied Math Activities

**Get your students moving through the United States while learning geography and math skills. **Students will move through the United States as they travel through seven destinations of their choice. This activity integrates math and geography, featuring map reading and measurement using a map scale. It includes calculations for gas costs, driving times, mileage, and more.

This resource encourages students to **problem-solve **while accurately using a map scale to plan a round trip across the United States. As students calculate distances, mileage, driving times, and gas expenses, they will develop higher-order thinking skills with real-life application.

This engaging activity empowers students to take ownership of their learning. Additionally, the instructions offer helpful tips on using yarn to teach how to measure distances on a road map. Students will learn how travel was done before GPS. Although we rely on GPS systems to get us from Point A to Point B, it is still important to know in today's digital age.

While GPS navigation systems and online mapping tools have made it easier to find our way around, having a good grasp of map scales can still come in handy. By using a map scale, students can accurately calculate distances on maps and understand the relationship between the physical size of the area being represented and its distance on the map. This skill can be useful for planning road trips, hiking excursions, or even understanding the layout of a city. Additionally, knowing how to read a map scale can help students develop spatial awareness and improve their overall geographical knowledge. So, while technology may make navigation more convenient, learning how to use a map scale is still a valuable skill that will never go out of style.

This activity incorporates math with geography:

• Measurement
• Gas Cost Calculations
• Driving Time Calculations
• Mileage Calculations &
• Map Reading

This lesson will require each team has a large laminated road map that can be purchased through or donated by your local stores, such as Walmart or Target.

If you have a way to make poster-sized maps, you can google the road maps of America and there are many that can be found.

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Empower learners to handle money transactions confidently with our comprehensive ABA program focused on independent money skills. This digital download is ideal for educators, therapists, and parents seeking to teach essential skills for counting money, determining totals, and calculating change. The program includes a detailed instruction sheet and a vending machine visual to make learning engaging and practical.

What's Included:

1. Program Instruction Sheet: A step-by-step guide on how to implement the independent money skills program. This sheet includes detailed instructions, goals, and strategies to ensure effective teaching and learning.
2. Vending Machine Visual: A colorful and interactive visual aid designed to simulate real-life purchasing scenarios. Learners can practice selecting items, counting money, and determining the total cost, enhancing their understanding through hands-on experience.

Key Features:

• Comprehensive Guide: The instruction sheet provides clear and detailed steps for teaching money skills, making it easy for educators and parents to implement the program effectively.
• Interactive Learning: The vending machine visual creates a fun and engaging way for learners to practice money transactions, helping them apply skills in a realistic context.
• Skill Development: Focuses on crucial money skills such as counting coins and bills, calculating the total cost of items, and determining the correct change to receive from the cashier.
• Versatile Use: Suitable for a variety of learning environments, including classrooms, therapy sessions, and home use, providing flexibility for different educational needs.

Equip your learners with the skills they need to handle money transactions independently with our Independent Money Skills ABA Program. Download today to provide a comprehensive, engaging, and practical learning experience!

Fractions are tough, unexciting and abstract. This 6-page task (with complete key), makes them practical, easy and applicable to real life.

Students will practice the skills of

• equivalent fractions
• comparing fractions
• adding fractions
• adding mixed numbers
• getting common denominators
• using ratio to compare mm to inches.

The task can be used well for

• review in later grades
• group work
• an end of unit assessment
• work (problem) stations
• homework (with mom and dad in the work shed)

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This is a great little card game for helping players grasp the idea that angles in a triangle and on a straight line all add up to 180 degrees. By mixing these concepts together, with cards that also show two angles, it exercises the theory in a strong and varied way. A full set of rules are included in the game, and the cards are printed with easy-cut guides to make preparation fast and simple. This card game is also available in a bundle of 5 games for the price of 3. For savings, click here to see. You may also like: Angles Worksheets UK Angles Worksheets US Angles Card Game Construction Dash Card Game If you have any comments or suggestions, and to stay updated please follow us or take a look at our Facebook Page Please click here to visit our website for more information about LittleStreams

✨Unlock the Fun in Learning Solving One-Step Inequalities!✨

Engage your students with an exciting kinesthetic activity designed specifically for mastering one-step inequalities! With 10 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 linear inequalities in a fun,
interactive way.

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

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

✨Happy Teaching!✨

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SCAVENGER HUNT Linear Equations and Inequalities

SCAVENGER HUNT Direct and Inverse Variation

SCAVENGER HUNT Find the Slope of a Line Given a Graph

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Ratios and scale are math concepts that are used in everyday life. This activity gets students up and moving and lets them practice these skills by measuring and re-scaling everyday objects in your classroom. Great way to practice these math concepts in a fun way with a partner! This lesson works well for math, engineering, or CTE classes and could also be used as an extension activity.

This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Edmodo, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive.

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This drag and drop, self checking and no prep activity is an engaging way for your students to practice percent of a number problems: it includes finding the part given the percent and whole, and finding the percent given the part and whole

Students will solve 20 problems.

A printable version is also included.

Perfect for:

• Early finishers
• End of the year activities
• Back to school activities

This activity is designed to work on laptops, tablets, or smartphones, making it accessible to any of your learners and students!

If they need to complete it on different days they just have to save the address at the top of the page and they will start back right where they left off.

Since this activity is online (interactive pages) there is very little prep; just provide the link, and off they go! There are no locks to configure or clues to hide—everything you need is online. No Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams logins are necessary.

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Welcome to Mathologist's Dollar Store, where every teacher resource is just one dollar, helping you create a vibrant classroom without stretching your budget!

This short, printable lesson is designed to help students independently learn how to write expressions and equations. It features guided notes to support understanding and series of practice questions to reinforce skills.

This is also ideal for self-paced learning but also a great way for classroom use or homework assignments.

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This is a NO PREP, download and go resource!

This download includes one month (20 days) of fall task cards on Google Slides. There are 3 slides per day that are color coded. These task cards would work great for any of the fall months. Task cards can be done as a group when projected onto the board, individually, set aside for fast finishers or used for morning work.

• 60 total slides

Skills included:

-Money totals

-Change back

-Time elapsed

-ABC order

-Nouns, verbs and adjectives

-Common & proper nouns

-Fact & opinion

-Greater than, less than & equal to

-Add to

-Finding the missing addend

& more

This product is great for distance learning utilizing Google Classroom or Gmail accounts. This resource is also great for schools and districts pushing for more technology use in school or during school closures.

Check out some of my other Fall activities:

October Life Skills Morning Work

This is a real-life lesson that encourages students to evaluate taxable income based on one's income and the marginal tax bracket. Kids will love this and have a great time discussing the occupations and how much each is taxed. This lesson does not go as far as to discuss personal deductions and standard deductions, which would lower your taxable income. That is for another day. This is a simple introduction to how Federal taxes are collected.

Focuses on taxable Income, understanding taxes, calculating taxes

Easel Activity Included

OBJECTIVE

• The learner will be able to calculate taxable income based on tax brackets based on percentages.
• The learner will understand the purpose of taxation and the difference between state and federal tax.

MATERIALS

• Occupation Game Cards (1 set of 24 per group) and
• Chart (1 per student)
• Game Instructions

PREPARATION

o Set up the classroom desks or tables so that students are sitting in groups of two or three.

INTRODUCTION: (20 minutes)

Ask students:

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GAME INSTRUCTIONS

Divide students into groups of two or three. Each group will receive a set of Occupation Game Cards. It is suggested that you laminate the cards, cut them, and place them in zip-lock bags so they can be used every year.

Students will be directed to place all cards face down. Distribute the Marginal Tax Bracket Chart.

Students within the group will take turns turning over an Occupation Game Card. Each will write the occupation, taxable income, and income tax percent using the Marginal Tax Bracket Chart provided on each student’s activity sheet (see below). Students will work together to calculate the income tax and lifetime total.

Alternative: you may have students compete against those within their team as another way to play, rather than having one group compete against the other groups in the class. Whatever works best for your students and classroom environment is the best route to take.

The goal is to reach a lifetime total of 100,000 taxable incomes to win. This will require multiple games, or to make it more challenging, raise the Lifetime taxable income goal to 150,000 or 200,000, which will make the game run longer.

Students can create charts on notebook paper for additional games.

Once they reach the lifetime goal, they win that round. Then have them play again.

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

Divisors, Factors, Common Factors and determining the GCD (GCF) between 2 numbers are the bread and butter of any middle school math syllabus. The Euclidean Algorithm is an exciting way to determine the GCD and it paves the way to knowledge needed for the RSA Public Key Cryptosystem.

This product includes a FREE classroom poster, a FREE Google Form quiz (and a FREE PDF-version of the quiz) and a FREE key to the task.

The task, (with key), will involve...

Factors

Common Factors

Determining the GCD

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.

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

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This game is available in a 5 for 3 bundle. It is a great little twist on a traditional/straight game of Rummy. There are 4 suits of increasing difficulty, with solutions that range between 1 and 13. The twist being that players have to work out the values of x, y, a and b in order to play the game.

The game is easily printed on standard card, and is quickly prepared thanks to easy-cut guides.

This card game is also available in a bundle of 5 games for the price of 3. For savings, click here to see.

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

Engage your students with an exciting kinesthetic activity designed specifically for mastering finding the slope of a line given a graph! With 17 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!

✨Happy Teaching!✨

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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Level 1: Appropriate for introducing inequalities.

Inequalities Task cards are included. There are 20 printable task cards and one-page answer sheet.

All the answers to the task cards are included.

Ideal for early practice or introduction to inequalities in middle school math, this resource encourages students to solve and graph inequalities with ease and holiday cheer.

More levels on inequalities available:

Solving Inequalities with Addition and Subtraction, Guided Notes and Practice

Solving Inequalities with Multiplication and Division Guided Notes and Practice

Solving Multi-Step Inequalities Guided Notes and Practice

Solving Compound Inequalities (AND and OR) Guided Notes and Practice Activity

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

To decrypt encrypted data is a 5-step process. The 5 steps involve basic algebra skills students pick up since middle school.
This task, (especially the key,) meticulously takes students through the 5 steps. When students can decrypt data, they will become much more inventive to make even stronger encryptions and they will avoid common pitfalls.

This product includes 3 FREE classroom posters that will show students how their mathematics fits into the bigger picture of RSA Encryption.

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

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This pack contains FIVE different printable card games at discount. High quality, professionally designed pages of fun games.

The pack contains the following games:

• Missing Angle Wars | card game for learning angles that add to 180

• Construction Dash | quickfire card game for triangle construction

• Geometric Snap | card game for the recognition of geometric shapes

• Time Switch! | card game for skills with time sequences and sums

• Time Wars | card game for learning how to read analog clock faces

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This printable resource includes a task with complete key. Students will use their knowledge of the volume of a prism to do an investigation into fair marketing and sales practices. Lots of containers of consumer products have a "false bottom". Do the retailers cheat us with this or do we get the amount we pay for? Other math topics needed to do this resource successfully include area of circles, ratios and percents.

Nothing compares with ice-cream, and that is why your child will remember this activity for a long time! Did they get cheated with the amount of ice-cream? No better Real-Life Math application than this.

This resource works great as ...

• an assessment exercise
• a task
• independent work
• distance learning
• as a problem for a math station
• with math centers
• for homework
• constructive group work centered on problem-solving.

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This pack contains a set of 24 questions differentiated four ways (96 cards) on the subject of Geometry. They are designed completely from scratch with simplicity, professionalism and concentration in mind.

This Task Card Set is available in a money saving bundle offer. Click here for more information

The questions are formulated to provide a mix of real life situations and pure geometry problems from a wide range of geometry subjects, such as pythagoras, symmetry, circles and more. The cards introduce the idea that Geometry has a function in the real world. These questions provide a strong base for the continued learning of Basic Geometry and a good grounding for further and more complex study.

Each question is differentiated in 4 ways across 4 cards. The easiest are the Red Questions and then the Yellow. The Green cards offer a little more challenge by asking additional questions, and finally the Challenge cards are designed to push the most able.

Download the preview document now to see the task cards in detail.

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

The sequence of powers of 2 is called successive squaring. The fact that every next power of 2 in the previous power of 2 squared is a very powerful tool to handle huge numbers easily.

This product includes a FREE classroom poster, a FREE Google Form quiz (and a FREE PDF-version of the quiz) and a FREE key to the task.

The task, (with key), will involve...

The powers of 2

Successive Squaring

Modular Arithmetic

Calculating the congruences of large powers with only a basic calculator (this is a very exciting skill for students)

Successive Squaring is a central part of the RSA Public Key Cryptosystem and mathematicians, programmers and students who encrypt data will use it all the time.

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.

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

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This game is available in a 5 for 3 bundle. It is a card game that helps to reinforce a knowledge of The Order of Operations. Some calculations on the cards are particularly difficult, which is why we included a full answer sheet just in case there are any queries. The card game is also easily prepared thanks to easy-cut guides, and can be combined with our Addition Battle, Subtraction Battle and Negative Integers Battle card games for a more varied gaming experience. This card game is also available in a bundle of 5 games for the price of 3. For savings, click here to see. You may also like: Order of Operations Rummy Card Game If you have any comments or suggestions, and to stay updated please follow us or take a look at our Facebook Page Please click here to visit our website for more information about LittleStreams