6th Grade Applied Math Centers

Lesson Overview

These projects have students using real-world math skills to learn to perform the calculations that are done in various careers within the seventeen career clusters. They will use math skills to learn how to compute measurements, quantities, profit, etc. to solve problems commonly found in that career field.

Are your students always asking "When will be ever USE this??" This short activity shows students a real-world use for the math skills they learn every day.

These lessons were created for 7th and 8th grade but could also be used successfully in upper elementary grades. Fully editable files are included for all lessons.

The bundle includes eighteen (18) different lessons, all of which are also available separately. They are all fully editable and include the student handout, an answer key, and a formula “cheat sheet” for students to assist with problem solving.

The following lessons are included:

· How Engineers Use Math

· How Architects Use Math

· How Fashion Designers Use Math

· How Math is Used in Agriculture Careers

· How Math is Used in Arts, AV, Technology & Communications Careers

· How Math is Used in Business Careers

· How Math is Used in Education Careers

· How Math is Used in Energy Careers *NEW*

· How Math is Used in Finance Careers

· How Math is Used in Government Careers

· How Math is Used in Health Science Careers

· How Math is Used in Human Services Careers

· How Math is Used in Information Technology Careers

· How Math is Used in Law Careers

· How Math is Used in Hospitality Careers

· How Math is Used in Manufacturing Careers

· How Math is Used in Sales & Marketing Careers

· How Math is Used in Transportation Careers

Materials Required:

· Computers with Internet access for each student (or pair of students)

· Software such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs

· Calculators (optional)

Files included (for each career):

· Teacher & Student Resources

· How This Career Uses Math Activity/Handout

· How This Career Uses Math Activity Answer Key

· Formula “Cheat Sheet” Student Handout

Approximate Lesson Duration:

· 1 (50 minute) class period for each lesson.

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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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?

This product can be used for

• groupwork

• discovery exercises

• assessment

• independent study

• a complete home-school Real-Life Math application curriculum for a middle school student.

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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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