8th Grade Applied Math Handouts
Best Real-Life Math Activity - Pythagoras Project - Designing a Road System
By Daniel
This fun, real-life 17-page activity (with complete key) lets students explore their own creativity in designing a road system between 4 towns. Students can DIY and only need an understanding of the Theorem of Pythagoras to be successful with this project.
The first real-life connection - Students will get a vivid and solid idea of what a transportation engineer does on a daily basis.
The second real-life connection - Honey bees build their honeycombs in an optimal way. Once students have come close to solving the challenge of an optimal road system, they will have come close to the design of a honey comb.
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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!
You might want to look at this poster of Pascal's Triangle as well!
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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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