6-8+Math+Resources

**Libby Schwaegler** 1. Open ended problem for Algebra students 2. Practice long division by finding missing values 3. Order of operations game- Find the target number using all numbers given 4. NASA Connect I really like the Right Ratio of Rest activity. I have never used it but it looks interesting 5. Germ Lab Fun Exponential growth activity- walks students through the math

Here are some math ideas I liked on Figure This.
 * Debi McConnell\**
 * 1.** **Popcorn**This lessons deals with the volume of a sphere. Students will use the formula for volume and how to figure out the circumference of a circle.
 * 2. What's a Fair Share?**This activity deals with ratio. Students will need to know how to figure out area and perimeter.
 * 3. Stamps** This problem deals with combinatioins of numbers to make other numbers using stamps.

1. Turtle Pond  2.  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. 3. Isometric Drawing Tool 4. 3D Shapes interactive
 * Heather Reyes**

All three are included at this URL: Math Apprentice 1. To get to the first problem choose a person and then go into the building called game pro. This problem shows students how the pythagorean theorem is used in game programming. 2. To get to the second problem go to the building called wheelworks. This problems deals with gears, gear ratios, and distance. 3. To get to the third problem go to the building called sweet treat cafe. This problem shows connections between math and cooking.
 * Steve Wallace**

**Chris Ozarka** 1. Speed Intervals and Acceleration - A great supplementary resource and starting point for discussing the concepts of speed and acceleration that many times are not intuitive for students 2. Equal Pay - A great supplementary challenge for looking at the data behind this social issue that is important both inside the classroom and out 3. Drinking Soda - A mathematical view of looking at the problem that drinking soda may cause to the body as well as other resources related to the topic

1. - Challenge 75 introduces the guide ratio to students. Students can also create their own paper airplanes to manipulate for the greatest glide ratio! 2. - Challenge 33 offers students a new way to think about slope. 3. - Students examine the realtionship between a circle's circumference and diameter.
 * Marti Kott**

1. [|blueprint for room design] - Students need to make a floor plan with different shaped rooms and install flooring. There are lots of components to this problem, more than usual. Check it out :) 2. math and popcorn - Students investigate volume using popcorn. Fun and easy activity that students can use...*and* eat popcorn...food is always a motivator :) So much can be done extending this lesson :) 3. surface area of rectangular prisms; [|volume of rectangular prisms] - Students use this interactive website to find the surface area and volume of rectangular prisms. What I like best about the site is it walks students through step by step and there are extra examples to work with. 4. probability dice game - Students need to determine whether or not a dice game is fair based on the differences in dice rolls. Be sure to check out the "Did you know" link and all the other links on the top of the page :)
 * Lynne Motycka**

1. - **This is a link to an NCTM illiminations activity involving bicycle gears. Great practice with adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing fractions.** 2.  - **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.** 3.  - **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.** 4.  - **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).**
 * Bethany Morton **


 * Nancy Lisner**
 * 1) @http://www.learner.org/interactives/geometry/index.html This is a link to a geometry website with 3-D representations and interactives for students.**
 * 2) www.arcademicskillbuilders.com Interactive skill games for review of basic skills.**
 * 3) www.math-kitecture.com Activity to "floor plan your classroom."**

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