Get your learners ready for the next step in learning mathematics with these fun math activities for high school students. With hands-on lesson plan ideas to explore concepts like probability, counting techniques, and measurement, your students in Grades 9-12 will gain valuable insights and solve problems focusing on a wide range of topics.
8 Summer Math Activities: Preventing Math Summer Slide
Try these engaging (and repeatable!) games and activities to keep students' math skills sharp and math brains churning all summer long.
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May 20, 2021
5 Memorial Day Math Activities
Try these fun Memorial Day math activities to engage students who are drawn to discussions around the holiday and may find it as an entry point into mathematical learning.
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April 16, 2021
Teaching Math Through Art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Math is more than just numbers, but another way to express our humanity. Here are three specific ways that teaching math through art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art can enhance your students' learning experience.
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January 27, 2021
Challenge Your Students With These 100th Day of School Math Activities
Download these printable math classroom activities as a fun way for your students to practice operations with whole numbers through 100.
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January 5, 2021
100th Day of School Gumball Machine Template and Math Activities
Use these gumball machine templates to play games and complete activities that celebrate the 100th Day of School in your math classroom.
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December 16, 2020
Halloween Math Activities for Middle School and High School Students
It’s that time of year where math class is full of spooky sums! Frightful fractions! Paranormal parabolas! Whether your students are first learning about zombie zeroes or eerie series, you can still bring Halloween into your math classroom.
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October 15, 2020
Math at Work Olympic Edition: How Is Math Used in Sports?
In a special Olympic edition of the Math at Work web series, paired with activities based on the Olympic Games, students will learn how important math is to the world of sports.
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January 7, 2022
Forgotten Stories of the Oregon Trail: Trailblazing Business
Inspire students with this story of entrepreneurship on the Oregon Trail and use the paired activity to help kids make their own business plan.
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July 21, 2020
Grades 9-12 Math Activity Set 5: Conducting Surveys and More
Students will learn about conducting surveys, experiments, and observational studies, as well as frequency distributions, weighted averages, and expected values.
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June 17, 2020
Grades 9-12 Math Activity Set 4: Measures of Central Tendency and More
Help students gain greater understanding of measures of central tendency and dispersion, outliers, transformations of data, and sampling techniques.
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June 1, 2020
Grades 9-12 Math Activity Set 3: Geometric Probability and More
Help students build their skills in the areas of geometric probability, characterizing data, data displays, and matrices.
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May 20, 2020
Grades 9-12 Math Activity Set 2: Counting Techniques and More
Download math lessons for high school students focusing on probability, mutually exclusive and overlapping events, and recognizing independent and dependent events.
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April 14, 2020
Grades 9–12 Math Activity Set 1: Precision and Accuracy and More
Teach high school students about precision and accuracy, significant digits, and errors in measurement with these downloadable activities.
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April 7, 2020
Teaching Linear Equations in Math
A linear equation in two variables describes a relationship in which the value of one of the variables depends on the value of the other variable.
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March 29, 2020
Boolean Algebra and Getting Logical in the Math Classroom
Learn the basic ideas of what Boolean algebra is, along with some history and examples plus a free activity for high school students to practice evaluating logical Boolean expressions.
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February 25, 2020
Teaching x- and y-Axis Graphing on Coordinate Grids
Teach students about graphing on coordinate grids and connecting points to create lines.
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October 22, 2021
Prime Numbers, Trapdoors, and Cracking Codes: A Math Puzzle—Part 2
Have your students try their hand at basic RSA enciphering with these downloadable math activities.
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September 11, 2019
Prime Numbers, Trapdoors, and Cracking Codes: A Math Puzzle—Part 1
Surprisingly—or maybe unsurprisingly to some—staying safe in the digital age has a lot to do with math.
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July 3, 2019
Math Trivia: How Well Do You Know Your Real Numbers?
Try your hand with a little math fun and test your students' mathematical literacy.
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October 22, 2018
The Giant Sculpture Gallery: A Math Puzzle
Productive perseverance is key to solving this puzzle.
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July 30, 2018
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