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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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Try these 9 summer math activities designed for preventing math summer slide. These are repeatable games and activities appropriate for all children in any grade.
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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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Try these fun Memorial Day math activities to celebrate the holiday with your students using Memorial Day-themes games, lesson plans, and activities.
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Use these financial literacy lesson plans and activities for middle school to teach students about topics ranging from salaries to wages to creating a personal budget.
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When teaching students about dividend, divisor, and quotient in division, introduce algorithms that will allow them to divide larger numbers.
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Teaching absolute value can help students understand the distance of a number on the number line from zero, regardless of the direction from zero that the number lies.
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Students learn the answer to "What is a unit rate?" in math class. Learn about ratios, rates, unit rates, and unit prices, and teach lessons where students solve real-world problems about rates and unit rates.
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Here are three specific ways that teaching math through art from The Met can enhance your students' learning experience.
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Download these 100th Day of School math activities for your classroom. These printables are suitable for students in Grades 2-5 and beyond.
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Celebrate 100 days of school with a free 100th Day of School gumball machine template. Explore projects, games, and activities.
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Here are fun Halloween math activities for middle school and high school students. Try these activities to celebrate Halloween in your math classroom and ensure that your middle school and high school students can enjoy the holiday while in school.
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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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Read about an entrepreneur on the Oregon Trail and download a free activity to help kids make a business plan.
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Explore HMH's Math at Work web series to hear insights from industry experts about jobs that involve math and more.
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Learn about the role of mathematics in fashion design with the "Math Meets Fashion" episode of HMH's Math at Work web series.
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Explore how math meets homebuilding with this Math at Work web series episode answering the question: How do homebuilders use math in their careers?
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Learn about the role of math in cooking in the "Math Meets Culinary Arts" episode of HMH's Math at Work web series.
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How is math used in business? Watch the "Math Meets Entrepreneurship" episode of HMH's Math at Work web series to find out!
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Help students build their skills in working with fractions, decimals, ratios, and percent.
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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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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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Download financial literacy activities for middle school students and teach them about topics including wages, salaries, and careers.
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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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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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Teach students about graphing along the x and y axis on coordinate graphs as a visual method for showing relationships between numbers.
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Have your students try their hand at basic RSA enciphering with these downloadable math activities.
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Surprisingly—or maybe unsurprisingly to some—staying safe in the digital age has a lot to do with math.
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Explore 6 fun math activities for middle school from HMH's GO Math! program. These middle school math games and projects for grades 6-8 will keep your students engaged.
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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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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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