29 Real-Life Math Applications for Middle School Mathematics, activities+keys
by DanielNo 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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assessment
independent study
a complete home-school Real-Life Math application curriculum for a middle school student.
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Real-Life Math fun activity with Ratios! - Which gas should we buy?
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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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Free Real-Life Math Classroom Decor! This Math are the Gears for RSA Encryption
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A FREE classroom poster, which will make your Classroom decoration project a little easier!
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.
These skills all form 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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Fibonacci Sequence, Golden Ratio, Pascal Triangle-A Fun Real-Life Math activity!
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A fun DIY discovery exercise/project for students (with complete answer key) on the Fibonacci Sequence, the Golden Ratio and the Pascal Triangle. The artistic students will especially love this project.
In this DIY resource (with complete key) , students will discover the famous Fibonacci Sequence, see how it relates to The Golden Ratio, complete their own Pascal Triangle and see how one can see the Fibonacci Sequence inside The Pascal Triangle.
The teacher needs no prep for this exercise and all complete answers are provided. Students will review and refine their addition and multiplication skills while having lots of fun with numbers. There is a section in the task where students who love art will be able to apply their artistic skills well.
These skills are applicable in this resource: Addition of 2- and 3-digit numbers, factors, multiples, algebra, adding like terms, division, ratio, decimals, Golden Ratio.
This is our best Seller, and it is not difficult to see why! Get the kids involved in it, and they will love it!
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Best Real-Life Math with Fractions! - Wrench Sizes and Tape Measure Readings
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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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Real-Life Math Surface Area, Volume Filling Painting and Paving a Swimming Pool
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This printable resource includes a task with complete key. Students will have to apply their knowledge of the
1) surface area and
2) volume of prisms, together with basic knowledge of
3) the area of quadrilaterals
...to solve some real-life problems. They will be challenged to think creatively about design and budget issues around a swimming pool, all the time, using their mathematical skills to problem-solve.
This resource works great as ...
- an assessment exercise
- a task
- independent work
- for distance learning
- math stations
- math centers
- homework
- constructive group work when introducing the topic.
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Real Math fun activity! RSA Encryption- Division Remainders Modular Arithmetic +
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A very interesting piece of the Real-Life Math puzzle that is the ultimate activity!
This resource helps students to see how their knowledge of Rules of Divisibility, Divisors, Remainders, Telling Time are applied in real life. These skills are essential parts of RSA encryption - the most widely used form of cryptography.
The task, (with key), will involve...
The powers of 2
Introduction to Modular Arithmetic (telling time with a different base than 12)
The concept of congruent versus equal
Discovering the very powerful Euler Formula
This resource works great as ...
- a task
- independent work
- distance learning
- math stations
- math centers
- homework
- constructive group work when introducing the topic.
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Modular Arithmetic 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.
Real-Life Math Fun practice/resource! Slope - A Student activity on Gradient.
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It is always a good strategy to review essential skills with your students, and this is right up there with the most essential!
Slope (Gradient) is a very practical real-life experience for all of us - we climb stairs daily and walk up and down very steep and less steep inclines. In this practical, outside activity, students encounter slope first hand and then make sense of the mathematics behind it. Students are then encouraged to think about the real-life applications and implications that slope has in the life of people like the elderly and the handicapped.
Linear equations, slope, rise over run, gradient, y=mx+b.
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Real-life Math and a part-time job! Hourly Wage and Total Income - y=mx+b
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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!
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- an assessment exercise
- a task
- independent work
- distance learning
- math stations
- math centers
- homework
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Real-Life Math Fun! Introducing the Coordinate Plane, 18 activities with keys
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18 exciting activities for children to discover the Real-Life application of Math!
This 8-page task, (with complete key), introduces the use of the coordinate plane from a real-life perspective. Students then transition from the depiction of a real-life situation to the theoretical exercise of plotting points on the coordinate plane and interpreting what they mean.
The task can be used as ...
- an introduction to the topic.
- groupwork at the start of the section
- an assessment at the end of the unit
- a formative assessment task to see if students grasp what the "dots on the paper" mean.
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Real-Life Math fun activity! RSA Encryption GCD Divisors Factors Multiples, etc
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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.
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Real-Life fun activity with Math! The Coordinate Plane- A Fun Application
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It is always a good strategy to review essential skills with your students, and this is right up there with the most essential!
In this fun, real-life exercise, students learn about the growth of large pumpkins in the Washington County Fair Pumpkin Competition. Students will use and improve the following skills:
- Plotting points on the coordinate plane
- Finding the y-value when given the x-value and visa versa
- Finding the relationship (equation) between two variables.
- Real-life problem-solving
- Completing the data in a table from a given graph.
- Extrapolating from given data and making predictions.
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Real-Life Math Fun! RSA Encryption Modular Arithmetic Euler's Form Decrypt Data
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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.
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Real-Life Math fun activity! Theorem of Pythagoras- Design and Build a Flowerbed
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This printable resource includes a task with complete key, on the practical real-life application of the Theorem of Pythagoras. The resource will be best used after a thorough introduction of the theorem and some practice with the theorem. Students will determine the lengths of each piece of wood needed in this practical building project as well as the cost involved of such a project.
This resource works great as ...
- an assessment exercise
- a task
- independent work
- distance learning
- math stations
- math centers
- homework
- Wonderful how applicable and Real Math becomes to children, once they realise that the skill of Math will help them with all kinds of fun tasks!
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Real-Life Math fun! RSA Encryption Powers of 2 Exponential Laws Successive Squar
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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.
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Real-Life Math Fun activity! - The Application of 14 Rules of Thumb
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This printable resource is a task with a complete key on rules of thumb. Some are very well known, and others not. Mathematics has a lot of practical, real-life applications and rules of thumbs are such very practical applications.
This resource works great as ...
- an assessment exercise at the end of a section on linear equations.
- a task to answer a student question about where math is used in real life.
- independent work for curious students.
- distance learning
- math stations
- math centers
- homework
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Real-Math fun! RSA Encryption Exponential Laws Powers of 2 Expansion of Integers
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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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Free Real-Life Math Classroom Decor!- The math building blocks of RSA Encryption
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A FREE classroom poster, and will be great to get for your project of Classroom decoration!
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.
These skills all form 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-Life Math fun! RSA Encryption Prime Numbers Co-prime Integer, Euler Phi
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A very interesting piece of the Real-Life Math puzzle that is the ultimate Back-to-school activity!
Multiplication Tables, Prime and Composite Integers, Coprime Pairs of Integers
The Euler Phi Function asks easy questions like: "Does 3 and 10 have a common factor larger than 1?" 3 and 10 are called coprime (or relatively prime).
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...
Prime Numbers
Determining if two integers are coprime
The Euler Phi-Function
Euler's Formula
The Euler Phi-Function forms an integral part of the RSA 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.
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Real-Life Math fun! Exciting Data and Stats Activity - Why so many white cars?
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It is always a good strategy to review essential skills with your students.
This DIY hands-on project takes students through the process of collecting, sharing, representing and analyzing qualitative data. Students collect data on the brand, color and type of cars and then present their data in bar and circle graphs.
- Why are there so many white cars on the road?
- Why are some roads full of potholes?
- Which brand of car is the most popular in my town?
I have done this project multiple times, have "ironed out any administrative wrinkles" in the practical application of the project and it works every time. Students have a lot fun with the project. They take ownership of the project, since they collect the data themselves.
Qualitative Data, Bar Graphs, Line Graph, Circle Graph, Pie Chart, Statistics, Data, Histogram, Line Graph, Box-and-Whiskers Plot, Stem-and-Leaf Plot.
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Real-Life Math fun!RSA Encryption Distributiv Property Exten Euclidean Algorithm
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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.
You might also want to look at the Bundle for all the Math for the RSA Cryptosystem!
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