As your students begin to think more deeply about college and their future careers, get them ready with fun math activities for middle school learners. With activity sets on budgeting, taxes, social media engagement, coding, and many more topics, your class will have real-world examples to look to for their math education.
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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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Multiply or Add First? Teaching Order of Operations Rules
Use this lesson to teach students about the order of operations: complete operations in parentheses, multiply and divide from left to right, and add and subtract from left to right.
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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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Financial Literacy Lesson Plans and Activities for Middle School Students
Use these financial literacy lessons for Grades 6-8 to teach students about topics ranging from salaries to wages to creating a personal budget.
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Teaching Dividend, Divisor, and Quotient in Division
The leap from multiplication to division is hard for many students! Learn about dividend, divisor, and quotient, along with a step-by-step explanation of the standard algorithm for division.
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Teaching Absolute Value of a Number in Math
Learn about what it means to evaluate the absolute value of a number, and get free lessons and games to use with your middle school students.
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Teaching Ratios and Unit Rates in Math
The heart of middle school mathematics is understanding ratios and rates. Learn about ratios, rates, and unit rates, and teach lessons about unit rates in the real world.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Math at Work: Meet Industry Experts to Explore Jobs That Involve Math
Share videos of celebrities and students solving problems in math-related jobs, and then have your students try the free activities.
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Math Meets Fashion: How Does a Fashion Designer Use Math?
Learn about the role of mathematics in fashion design with this episode of HMH's Math at Work web series.
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Math Meets Homebuilding: How Do Homebuilders Use Math in Their Careers?
In this Math at Work web series episode, students dive into how expert construction workers count on mathematics when building homes.
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Math Meets Culinary Arts: How Do Chefs Use Math in Their Job?
Explore the role that math plays in cooking with this episode of HMH's Math at Work web series.
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Math Meets Entrepreneurship: How Is Math Used in Business?
Discover the power and importance of real-life math with insights from industry leaders who work directly with real students in Math at Work.
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Forgotten Stories of the Oregon Trail: Money Matters
The Six-and-One-Fourth-Cent Piece In 1846, Tabitha Brown was 66 years old and ready to make a big move. She decided to leave Missouri and move west to Oregon—and convinced …
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Grades 6–8 Math Activity Set 4: Sweet Success and More
Help students build their skills in working with fractions, decimals, ratios, and percent.
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Grades 6–8 Math Activity Set 3: Financial Literacy
Help students learn about how to plan for the future, with a focus on creating a personal budget and constructing a net worth statement.
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Grades 6–8 Math Activity Set 2: Financial Literacy
Put students in Grades 6-8 on the path to making knowledgeable purchasing decisions with these free activities ideal for at-home learning.
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Grades 6-8 Math Activity Set 1: Financial Literacy
Download financial literacy lessons for Grades 6-8 to teach students about topics including wages, salaries, and careers.
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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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How to Calculate Social Media Engagement: A Math Activity
Download these free math activities for students to teach them how to calculate the engagement of both real and fictional Instagram users.
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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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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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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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6 Fun Math Activities for Middle School Students
Keep students engaged in the math classroom with these activities from HMH's GO Math! program.
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Math by Touch: A Braille Puzzle for Your Students (Part 2)
With this two-part blog series, teachers can incorporate learning Braille with math through creative scenarios, historical details, and fun puzzles.
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Math by Touch: A Braille Puzzle for Your Students (Part 1)
With this two-part blog series, teachers can incorporate learning Braille with math through creative scenarios, historical details, and fun puzzles.
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The Giant Sculpture Gallery: A Math Puzzle
Productive perseverance is key to solving this puzzle.
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