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Positives and Negatives of Bungee Jumping

6.NS, 6th Grade, Common Core Standards, Real-Life Math Lessons, The Number SystemBy MattJuly 15, 2015

Students will simulate bungee jumping to look at the positive and negative directions the activity naturally creates.

Big Square Deal

8.NS, 8th Grade, Common Core Standards, Real-Life Math Lessons, The Number SystemBy MattJune 28, 2015Leave a comment

Students will explore if you can make a square pizza with different amounts of pizza slices and see what doors it opens into understanding and estimating square roots.

We Built This City

6.NS, 6th Grade, Common Core Standards, Front Page, Real-Life Math Lessons, The Number SystemBy MattMay 9, 2015Leave a comment

Students will design a city layout on their graph paper. They will also be responsible for giving a “tour” of their city. Through these two activities, students will work on locating and reading coordinate pairs, as well as determining the distance between points.

Vacation Getaway

6.NS, 6th Grade, Common Core Standards, Real-Life Math Lessons, The Number SystemBy MattApril 1, 2015Leave a comment

Students get to plan a vacation, but not without using some division to figure out how much each person will owe.

 Temperature Exploration

6.NS, 6th Grade, 7-fp, 7.NS, 7th Grade, Common Core Standards, Real-Life Math Lessons, The Number SystemBy MattJanuary 19, 2015Leave a comment

7.NS.1,3 The students will compare extreme temperatures in the U.S. and then discovering other extreme temperatures in the world to compare further.

Summer Hangin’

6.NS, 6th Grade, Common Core Standards, Real-Life Math Lessons, The Number System, UncategorizedBy MattJanuary 19, 2015Leave a comment

Students will make a summer schedule with set amounts of days between each activities and find out how often they will meet up with friends who do the same activity. Students are then given an amount of 2 or more supplies and instructed to determine the greatest amount of equal “packs” they could make.

Candy Split

6.NS, 6th Grade, Common Core Standards, Real-Life Math Lessons, The Number SystemBy MattJanuary 19, 2015Leave a comment

Students will use candy to explore what happens when they divide a fraction into even smaller amounts and take a fraction of a fraction.

What Drives You?

6.NS, 6th Grade, Common Core Standards, Real-Life Math Lessons, The Number SystemBy MattJanuary 19, 2015Leave a comment

Students will determine how many miles their future vehicle will accrue and analyze the cost of certain cars based on initial cost and gas mileage.

Integer Football

Integer Football

6.NS, 6th Grade, 7.NS, 7th Grade, Common Core Standards, Real-Life Math Lessons, The Number SystemBy MattSeptember 24, 20126 Comments

American Football is a game of positive and negative yards. This game simulates this experience. It shows students where negatives exist in real life (America’s favorite sport) and helps them to practice and further realize the rule for adding integers of different signs.

Describing The Speed Of A Car

6.RP, 6th Grade, 7.G, 7.RP, 7th Grade, Common Core Standards, Real-Life Math Lessons, The Number SystemBy MattAugust 8, 2012Leave a comment

In this lesson students will see why math is important in helping us describe things like the speed of a car. Without math describing how fast a car is going is much more difficult. Students will watch a video, make observations, and discover math to help them describe what is happening.

Shopping Stacked Discounts

7-fp, 7.RP, 7th Grade, Common Core Standards, Real-Life Math Lessons, The Number SystemBy MattJanuary 12, 20121 Comment

7.RP.3 In this lesson students “shop” for items and discover why stores often only let you take an additional discount off the sale price and not the original price.

The Dangers of Credit Cards

7-fp, 7.NS, 7th Grade, Common Core Standards, Real-Life Math Lessons, The Number SystemBy MattOctober 23, 2011Leave a comment

7.NS.1,2,3 Students will fictitiously shop with a credit card and use integers to discover why credit cards can be dangerous.

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