8th+grade

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8th grade - check out this lesson plan and notebook file that goes with it (of course, I made it so I think it's awesome - haha!). I'd like us to strive to do a more hands-on, integrated lesson like this as least once per chapter. Let's think of some ideas!

 challenges_53-56.pdf - **Problem #54 asks students to figure out a "fair share" of a 9"x9" cake - sharing both the cake and the icing equally among 6 students. Covers volumes, surface area, fractions.** [|Trebuchets MTMS.pdf] This article describes activities to do with 8th grade students investigating relationships between counterweight and distance projectiles are thrown, and more. Real life data-collection and graphing, and regression equations are involved in analyzing the data.  [|math for real UPC codes.pdf] - **Math for Real can be found at the end of all Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School journals. This one is investigating UPC codes and ISBN numbers, some of the math behind them and how computers check if the code was entered correctly.**  [|MTMS patterns.pdf] - **Article from Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School "The Leap from Patterns to Formulas". Great examples of representing formulas with tables and geometric models. (Some geometric concepts covered include cube and rect. prism dimensions, prism vertices - edges - faces, number of diagonals from each vertex of a polygon,etc. Some algebraic concepts used as well, modeling polynomials).** [|challenges_33-36_bw.pdf] - Challenge 33 offers students a new way to think about slope.

POST SHARED SMARTNOTEBOOK or PPT FILES BELOW (same directions as above) Here are some Jeopardy files I've created for Alg and Pre-alg. If you have others, please share!        

== POST MATH LAB (CENTERS OR PROJECTS) IDEAS BELOW. (can be a notebook, ppt, or word file or an internet link). here is a discount project that I used during Pre-Algebra CH6. It includes the student worksheet and a list of "gifts" with prices. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">