Middle School Applied Math Lesson

This activity incorporates math with geography:

• Measurement
• Gas Cost Calculations
• Driving Time Calculations
• Mileage Calculations &
• Map Reading

It encourages students to problem solve and to accurately use a map scale to plan a round-trip throughout the United States. Students will use higher-thinking skills to calculate distances, mileage, driving times, and gas costs. Your students will have a blast with this activity and find ownership in their work. Instructions include great tips on using yarn to teach students to calculate distances on a road map.

This lesson will require each team has a large laminated road map that can be purchased through or donated by your local stores, such as Walmart or Target.

If you have a way to make poster-sized maps, you can google the road maps of America and there are many that can be found.

Disclosure: One purchase is good for one teacher usage (unlimited classes). If more wish to use this product, please purchase discounted additional licenses, one per teacher. This product comes under the copyright of Geography & Math Made Easy.

Empower learners to handle money transactions confidently with our comprehensive ABA program focused on independent money skills. This digital download is ideal for educators, therapists, and parents seeking to teach essential skills for counting money, determining totals, and calculating change. The program includes a detailed instruction sheet and a vending machine visual to make learning engaging and practical.

What's Included:

1. Program Instruction Sheet: A step-by-step guide on how to implement the independent money skills program. This sheet includes detailed instructions, goals, and strategies to ensure effective teaching and learning.
2. Vending Machine Visual: A colorful and interactive visual aid designed to simulate real-life purchasing scenarios. Learners can practice selecting items, counting money, and determining the total cost, enhancing their understanding through hands-on experience.

Key Features:

• Comprehensive Guide: The instruction sheet provides clear and detailed steps for teaching money skills, making it easy for educators and parents to implement the program effectively.
• Interactive Learning: The vending machine visual creates a fun and engaging way for learners to practice money transactions, helping them apply skills in a realistic context.
• Skill Development: Focuses on crucial money skills such as counting coins and bills, calculating the total cost of items, and determining the correct change to receive from the cashier.
• Versatile Use: Suitable for a variety of learning environments, including classrooms, therapy sessions, and home use, providing flexibility for different educational needs.

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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.

This includes a slideshow and corresponding notes sheet to help students really understand what happens when you add and subtract integers using a silly but relatable analogy. The slideshow and notes includes 5 examples with the question on one slide and the answer on the next. The practice includes guided practice (using the same analogy) and many more bare problems for students to internalize the thought process.

Solving Compound Inequalities.

Conjunction, AND

Disjunction, OR

This worksheet/activity is recommended as the very first lesson on compound inequalities. The practice problems involve standard compound inequalities with a conjunction or disjunction.

This worksheet can be served as a mini-lesson to begin the topic of Compound Inequalities.

Also check out Solving Multi-Step Inequalities Guided Notes and Practice

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Are you tired of teaching each data display in isolation? Use this card sort to help your students see the connections between the four representations of data: box plots, histograms, stem and leaf plots and dot plots.

There are 15 sets of cards to match with 3 different displays of the same data in each match. Students will attend to the range, spread, median, mode and variability to tell which displays represent the same data sets.

Questions to prompt student thinking and discussion questions/slides are included.

Check out my Engaging Mean Median Mode Range Skew Activity

This is a google slideshow that I use to help students (and their parents) understand my expectations on an MYP Criterion D Assessment.

I use multiple specific examples to show what it means to

• Describe vs. Explain the level of accuracy
• Determine if the answer makes sense in the context

After teaching 6th grade math in a few years, I've learned that students often don't know what it means to "explain the accuracy" of their answer or to determine if it makes sense in the context of the problem. This is designed to help clarify the expectations that they will see throughout MYP.

I do this after our first Criterion D quiz. All examples are from the quiz.

This slideshow and corresponding notes & practice packet focus on division with unit fractions including 1/a divided by b and a divided by 1/b. There are some bonus/challenge problems included for students needing more of a challenge that have mixed numbers and non-unit fractions.

This uses visuals and connects to students prior knowledge about division as dividing into equal groups or dividing into groups of a certain size. It does not use Keep Change Flip or any tricks.

These quizzes and slideshows with good and bad examples are how I introduce the expectations of MYP to my 6th graders (MYP year 1).
This bundle includes a Criterion B quiz, Criterion D quiz and several examples and non examples of the following skills

• Writing a general rule
• Verifying your rule with examples
• Explaining the accuracy of your answer
• Determining if your answer makes sense in the context of the problem

After teaching MYP year 1 for 3 years, these are the MYP skills that my students have struggled with the most.

Includes 4 card matching activities, saving $4.25 when purchased as a bundle.

Data Displays - matching box plots, histograms, stem and leaf plots and dot plots that represent the same data. Includes teacher questions and discussion slides

Area Formulas - matching shapes with the correct area formula with the side lengths substituted in and the answers. Includes extension & independent practice.

Properties of Operations - matching expressions using commutative, associative and distributive properties along with their corresponding visual representations.

Multiplying with Fractions/Mixed Numbers - matching multiplication problems with their corresponding visual representation to help students understand the various ways to think about and represent multiplying with fractions. Includes extension activity to help students identify when multiplying with fractions results in a product less than both factors, in between the two factors and greater than both factors.

This is all of my fraction resources that I use with my 6th graders.