8th Grade Applied Math Activities (by date, latest first)
Writing Expressions and Equations Worksheet Activity Mini Lesson
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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.
Inequalities Activity Writing and Graphing Task Cards Christmas
By Mathologist
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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35 Real-Life Math Applications for Algebra 1 Algebra 2 Pre-Calculus, tasks, keys
By Daniel
No better exercise for children to do to cement all the Math they have learnt thus far.
So make sure you take advantage of this incredible resource, as it could keep them busy for quite a while!
These tasks, (with complete keys) help teachers and their students see in a powerful way where and how the math they do gets applied in real life. A sample of the 35 products include:
- Division, prime numbers and Encryption
- Trig and building a lean-to roof.
- Geometric Sequences and Financial investments
- Slope and building the right stairs for old people.
- Statistics and making informed consumer choices.
- Line of best fit and predicting Track world records.
- Logs, Ln, e and Financial investments
- Linear Equations and Optimization (Linear Programming)
- Exponents and Encryption
- Pythagoras and design and gardening
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29 Real-Life Math Applications for Middle School Mathematics, activities+keys
By Daniel
No better exercise for children to do to cement all the Math they have learnt thus far! So, be sure to take advantage of this offer, as it could keep them busy for quite a while!
This Real-Life Math bundle contains 29 different tasks, (with complete keys), of where Middle School math gets applied in the real world. It will keep the children fascinated by how all they Math they learn is applicable to the Real World that we live in!
The work will keep your students very engaged since all of it has been tried, tested and refined in my daily classroom over many years. Demonstrate practically to students the answers to the following questions:
- Why do we have to learn this?
- Where is this ever used in real life?
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groupwork
discovery exercises
assessment
independent study
a complete home-school Real-Life Math application curriculum for a middle school student.
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Best Real Life Math! Practical Data and Statistics activities, Tasks with keys
By Daniel
A wonderful Real-Life Math bundle with lots of practical applications.
These projects and tasks, (with keys), make Data and Statistics come alive. They are tried, tested and improved over many years in my middle school classroom. Students get to think about concepts such as mean, median, range, mode, quartiles and outliers in a real life and practical way. The products include both quantitative and qualitative data and the statistics involved. Both the measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion are covered.
The products can be used
- at the start of the unit on data and statistics
- as an end of unit project
- as an assessment.
- for groupwork
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Real-Life Fun Math activity! 9 tasks on Mathematics of the RSA Cryptosystem
By Daniel
A very interesting piece of the Real-Life Math puzzle that is the ultimate activity!
Multiplication Tables, Factors, Products, Multiples, Divisibility, Telling Time, Integers, Distributive Property, Exponential Laws, Prime Numbers, Composite Numbers, Prime Factors, Place Value, Linear Equations, Divisors, Remainders, Integer Multiplication, Integer Division.
This bundle included EVERYTHING needed for RSA Encryption.
With this bundle, students will see that
1. They already know all the math needed for RSA Encryption (by about the end of 10th grade)
OR
2. The math needed for RSA Encryption is really very easy.
The skills listed above all form part of the RSA Cryptosystem. Students who are busy with these topics need to know (and be reminded by their teachers) that they are working with mathematics that has a very powerful, real-life application.
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Real-Math fun! RSA Encryption Exponential Laws Powers of 2 Expansion of Integers
By Daniel
A very interesting piece of the Real-Life Math puzzle that is the ultimate Back-to-school activity!
Exponents, Exponential Laws, Powers of 2, Expressing an integer as the sum of the powers of 2 - also called the binary expansion of the integer.
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
Expressing integers as the sum of powers of 2
Expressing integers in their binary expansion 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.
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Real-Life Math fun activity! How much did it rain in Athens? Volume of Prisms
By Daniel
To measure the rain and use it in class for a Real-Life Math task is a wonderful activity! No better Real-Life Math application.
This printable resource includes a task with complete key. Students will calculate the amount of rain that fell in a 20-mile radius if it rains 1 inch. They will then determine what it would cost to bring that amount of water to Athens, GA, in shipping containers from the nearest lake. Students will calculate the volume of a cylinder and a rectangular prism, gas mileage, cost of transport, ratios and proportions and much more.
This resource works great as ...
- an assessment exercise
- a task
- independent work
- distance learning
- math stations
- math centers
- homework
- an end of unit practical project
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Real-Life Math fun Practicing Substitution, interesting Prime Number Discovery!
By Daniel
Algebraic substitution is not very exciting at best. Finding a formula that always generates prime numbers will make you world famous. This task card combines the two math skills into an exciting discovery exercise. Students get to explore the effectiveness of certain formulas in generating primes (while they are doing lots of substitution). Eventually they will see that this exercise is futile, but will hopefully have fun on the journey.
Feel free to use this product as
- a task
- an assessment
- for groupwork
- an intro into the use of Google Sheets
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Real-Life Math fun! RSA Encryption Encrypting Data Prime Numbers Modular Arithm
By Daniel
A very interesting piece of the Real-Life Math puzzle that is the ultimate activity!
Multiples, Factors, Products, Divisibility of Integers, Prime Numbers, Remainders, Modular Arithmetic, Finding the GCD, Distributive Property - how can these skills of the first 7 lessons be enough to do powerful, unbreakable RSA Encryption.
If you have done lessons 1-7, believe it or not, you know have all the skills to encrypt data using the RSA Public Key Cryptosystem.
This product includes 3 FREE classroom posters that will show students how their mathematics fits into the bigger picture of RSA Encryption.
This task, (especially the key), takes students through the process of encryption. It is much easier than you think - all you need is a solid basic knowledge of the first 7 lessons covered in my TeachShare-store - Real-Life Mathematics.
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.
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Real-Life Math fun activity with Ratios! - Which gas should we buy?
By Daniel
Which gas should I buy? Should I always buy the cheapest kind? Students use their knowledge of ratios and unit rates to make good, financially sound real-life choices.
The price of the different kinds of gas and the gas mileage each one gives you on your car has an influence on your choice.
The mathematical topics covered in this task include:
- Ratios
- Unit Rates
- Problem Solving
- Logical Thinking
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Real-Life Math fun activity! Volume of Prisms- Did I get cheated with Ice Cream?
By Daniel
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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Real-Life Math fun! RSA Encryption Powers of 2 Exponential Laws Successive Squar
By Daniel
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.
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Real-life Math and a part-time job! Hourly Wage and Total Income - y=mx+b
By Daniel
Perfect for an activity for children who wants to earn some pocket money at a part-time job!.
This printable resource includes a task with complete key. The focus is to make the straight line equation and its graph practical and applicable to a real life event - working for an hourly wage and getting paid a set amount per shift. Students get to graph equations with the table method, build the equation of a real-life example, solve simultaneous equations graphically and through the values in a table, and make some real-life choices about employment with their knowledge. Get them excited about the knowledge that they get to make their own decisions about who to work for, or what jobs they can choose to do!
This resource works great as ...
- an assessment exercise
- a task
- independent work
- distance learning
- math stations
- math centers
- homework
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Real-Life Math fun! Similarity and Proportion,Ratios and Real-Life Problems
By Daniel
It is always a good strategy to review essential skills with your students, and this is right up there with the most essential!
This task, (with complete answer key),
- guides students through the discovery of equal proportions in the sides of similar triangles.
- reviews relevant Algebra skills with ratios and proportions.
- applies the new found knowledge of ratio and proportion in real-life situations by determining the height of real-life objects.
This task can also be done as an outside activity where students collect the data of Task 6 and 7 for themselves, and then calculating the height of any object at school or in their own back yard. The project has been tried and tested many times and works really well.
Ratio, Proportion, Similar Triangles, Cross Multiplication, Solving Equations, Measurement, Division.
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Real-Life Math Fun! RSA Encryption Modular Arithmetic Euler's Form Decrypt Data
By Daniel
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.
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Real-Life Math FUN! RSA Encryption Times-Tables Factors Multiples Products etc
By Daniel
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.
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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.
Real-Life Math Fun activity, Volume of Spheres Task, with Complete Key
By Daniel
This printable resource includes a task and complete key. Students use the formula for the volume of a sphere and their knowledge of ratios to compare the sizes of a water tower to the moon to the earth to the sun to the largest star in the known universe (UY Scuti).
This resource works great as ...
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- independent work
- distance learning
- math stations
- math centers
- homework
- constructive group work when introducing the topic.
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Real-Life Math fun!RSA Encryption Distributiv Property Exten Euclidean Algorithm
By Daniel
A very interesting piece of the Real-Life Math puzzle that is the ultimate activity!
The Distributive Property and Multiplying Positive and Negative Integers and Variable Expressions are part and parcel of any Pre-Algebra course. These skills are very important when doing the Extended Euclidean Algorithm - if you make sign mistakes, you will be frustrated and you will have to do things over. The value of carefully writing out your mathematics is really illustrated with the Extended Euclidean Algorithm.
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...
Determining the GCD and expressing this GCD as a linear combination of the two integers.
Doing the distributive property over and over until you are very fluent with it.
Multiplying positive and negative integers faultlessly.
The extended Euclidean Algorithm 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.
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Best Real Life Math Task for Data and Statistics - Outliers Mean Median IQR
By Daniel
A brilliant Real-Life activity that will cement the subject matter in a way that no normal classroom Math exercise can!
This 12-page task and key is a DIY alternative to repetitive and boring Data and Statistics tasks. Students will use measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion to make real life choices about planting certain crops or not, which sports team will win a game given the weight and height of the players, etc. The product improves students' understanding of the use of the following statistics:
- mean
- median
- mode
- range
- quartile 1
- quartile 3
- Inter-Quartile Range
- Lower Outlier
- Higher Outlier
From 7th Grade math, I hardly teach these topics any more, since students know them well by now. I give them these tasks, and it takes them 2 to 3 days to complete.
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