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Challenge your students with this bundle of real world math projects and applications that fit perfectly into your end of year plans! Each word problem activity has a unique story or scenario that the students need to solve using their content knowledge and critical thinking skills.
Topics include:
✅ Ratios, proportions, and percents
✅ Solving linear equations
✅ Solving and graphing linear inequalities
✅ Finding slope
✅ Writing and graphing equations in slope-intercept form
✅ Writing equations in standard form
✅ Evaluating and graphing functions
✅ Angle relationships and similar triangles
✅ Scatter plots and linear regression
✅ Simple and compound probability
Are answer keys included?
Yes! All of these projects have complete answer keys.
**Please note that some problems/applications are very open ended and student answers will vary based on the decisions they make.**
How are real world math projects different than regular word problems?
Most word problems have one question that needs to be answered and little follow up or detail. My real world math activities stretch one idea or scenario into a meaningful performance task that can be used as a full assessment of student learning.
These applications are more than interpreting the question and quickly getting to the answer. Your students will be challenged to think critically about each scenario and defend their solutions.
The best part?
All of the topics are relevant and modernized (because kids don’t care about calculating CD sales or cell phone minutes anymore).
How I have used these 8th grade math projects:
⭐Whole Group: Some shorter real world math activities in this bundle are perfect for guided notes and introducing word problems.
⭐Small Group: Your students can work together to complete this activity and have discussions about different strategies for writing expressions from diagrams.
⭐ Individual: I have used this activity as a summative assessment for my Algebra 1 students. It usually takes them about one class period to complete on their own.
Do these real world math projects replace a standard unit assessment or test?
They can, but they don’t have to. I always recommend giving your students multiple opportunities to show they understand a concept to get the full picture.
Tests will give you valuable information about a student’s study skills and foundational knowledge, but real world math projects show whether a student can think critically, creatively, and defend their decisions using math.
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