Teaching the Common Core Math Standards with Hands-On Activities, Grades 6-8 (Paperback)

About This Book v

About the Authors vii

Acknowledgments ix

SECTION 1: STANDARDS AND ACTIVITIES FOR GRADE 6 1

Ratios and Proportional Relationships: 6.RP.1 2
Activity: Ratios All Around Us 2

Ratios and Proportional Relationships: 6.RP.2 4
Activity: Unit Rate Tic-Tac-Toe 4

Ratios and Proportional Relationships: 6.RP.3 6
Activity: The Faster Rate 7

The Number System: 6.NS.1 9
Activity: Modeling Division of Fractions 9

The Number System: 6.NS.2 12
Activity 1: Snork's Long Division 12
Activity 2: Long Division Relay Race 13

The Number System: 6.NS.3 15
Activity: Decimal Operation Tournament 15

The Number System: 6.NS.4 17
Activity: The Numbers Game 17

The Number System: 6.NS.5 19
Activity: Finding the Opposite 19

The Number System: 6.NS.6 22
Activity 1: Graphing on a Number Line 22
Activity 2: Bonk the Mole 24

The Number System: 6.NS.7 25
Activity: An Old-Fashioned Number Line 25

The Number System: 6.NS.8 27
Activity: The Maze Game 27

Expressions and Equations: 6.EE.1 29
Activity: Find Which Does Not Belong 29

Expressions and Equations: 6.EE.2 32
Activity: And It Equals 32

Expressions and Equations: 6.EE.3 35
Activity: Presenting Properties 35

Expressions and Equations: 6.EE.4 37
Activity: Partner Quiz 37

Expressions and Equations: 6.EE.5 39
Activity: Three in a Row 39

Expressions and Equations: 6.EE.6 42
Activity: A Slice of Life with Variables and Expressions 42

Expressions and Equations: 6.EE.7 44
Activity: Equations, Equations, Equations 44

Expressions and Equations: 6.EE.8 46
Activity: Find Your Match 47

Expressions and Equations: 6.EE.9 51
Activity 1: Examining Relationships 51
Activity 2: Comparing Heart Rates 52

Geometry: 6.G.1 54
Activity 1: It's Half 54
Activity 2: It's Awe-Sum 55

Geometry: 6.G.2 57
Activity: It's Voluminous 57

Geometry: 6.G.3 60
Activity: Initials 60

Geometry: 6.G.4 63
Activity: Finding the Surface Area of Nets 63

Statistics and Probability: 6.SP.1 65
Activity: Statistical Questions Versus Nonstatistical Questions 65

Statistics and Probability: 6.SP.2 67
Activity: And the Answer Is 67

Statistics and Probability: 6.SP.3 69
Activity: Measure of Center Versus Measure of Variation 69

Statistics and Probability: 6.SP.4 72
Activity: Creating Data Displays 72

Statistics and Probability: 6.SP.5 75
Activity: Summarizing Data 75

SECTION 2: STANDARDS AND ACTIVITIES FOR GRADE 7 79

Ratios and Proportional Relationships: 7.RP.1 80
Activity: What Is the Unit Rate? 81

Ratios and Proportional Relationships: 7.RP.2 84
Activity: Proportions Scavenger Hunt 84

Ratios and Proportional Relationships: 7.RP.3 86
Activity 1: Gifts for the Holidays 86
Activity 2: Very Interesting 89

The Number System: 7.NS.1 90
Activity: The Virtual Classroom 90

The Number System: 7.NS.2 92
Activity 1: The Distributive Property War 93
Activity 2: Which One Should Be Excluded? 96

The Number System: 7.NS.3 98
Activity: Playing the Stock Market 98

Expressions and Equations: 7.EE.1 104
Activity: Algebraic Expressions Jigsaw 104

Expressions and Equations: 7.EE.2 106
Activity: Rewriting Expressions 106

Expressions and Equations: 7.EE.3 108
Activity: Estimation Game 108

Expressions and Equations: 7.EE.4 110
Activity 1: Writing Equations 110
Activity 2: Solving Inequalities 112

Geometry: 7.G.1 114
Activity: Scaling Your Classroom 114

Geometry: 7.G.2 116
Activity: Creating Triangles 116

Geometry: 7.G.3 119
Activity 1: A Virtual Cube 119
Activity 2: Slicing Figures 120

Geometry: 7.G.4 121
Activity 1: Circle Scavenger Hunt 121
Activity 2: What's the Relationship? 122

Geometry: 7.G.5 124
Activity: What's the Angle? 124

Geometry: 7.G.6 127
Activity: Let's Build It 127

Statistics and Probability: 7.SP.1 129
Activity: Examining Samples 129

Statistics and Probability: 7.SP.2 131
Activity: How Many Cubes? 131

Statistics and Probability: 7.SP.3 133
Activity: How Well Did They Do? 133

Statistics and Probability: 7.SP.4 136
Activity: What Can We Say? 136

Statistics and Probability: 7.SP.5 139
Activity: On a Scale of Zero to One 139

Statistics and Probability: 7.SP.6 143
Activity: Probability Simulations 143

Statistics and Probability: 7.SP.7 145
Activity 1: Spinner Experiment 145
Activity 2: Flipping a Marshmallow 146

Statistics and Probability: 7.SP.8 148
Activity 1: Working with Sample Spaces 148
Activity 2: Simulating Events 149

SECTION 3: STANDARDS AND ACTIVITIES FOR GRADE 8 151

The Number System: 8.NS.1 152
Activity: Math Tic-Tac-Toe 153

The Number System: 8.NS.2 154
Activity 1: Zeroing In 154
Activity 2: Irrational Numbers—They're Insane 155

Expressions and Equations: 8.EE.1 157
Activity: What Does It Equal? 157

Expressions and Equations: 8.EE.2 160
Activity: Creating Squares and Cubes 161

Expressions and Equations: 8.EE.3 162
Activity 1: Expressing Numbers in Scientific Notation 162
Activity 2: It's How Many Times as Much.163

Expressions and Equations: 8.EE.4 165
Activity 1: Math Bingo 166
Activity 2: Metric Prefixes 167

Expressions and Equations: 8.EE.5 169
Activity: It's Proportional 169

Expressions and Equations: 8.EE.6 171
Activity 1: The Slope Is the Same 171
Activity 2: I Have Derived It 172

Expressions and Equations: 8.EE.7 176
Activity: Which One Doesn't Belong? 177

Expressions and Equations: 8.EE.8 179
Activity 1: What's the Point? 180
Activity 2: Students Teaching 181

Functions: 8.F.1 183
Activity 1: Using a Function Machine 183
Activity 2: And Now for a Skit, a Song, a Poem, or a 184

Functions: 8.F.2 185
Activity: What's My Function? 185

Functions: 8.F.3 189
Activity: A Function Scavenger Hunt 189

Functions: 8.F.4 191
Activity 1: Four in a Row 191
Activity 2: Everyday Uses of Linear Functions 192

Functions: 8.F.5 198
Activity: Describing a Graph 198

Geometry: 8.G.1 201
Activity: Transformations 201

Geometry: 8.G.2 205
Activity 1: Find the Image 205
Activity 2: From Here to There 206

Geometry: 8.G.3 210
Activity: I've Scrambled My Notes 210

Geometry: 8.G.4 215
Activity: I Found the Image 215

Geometry: 8.G.5 219
Activity 1: Finding the Sum of the Interior Angles of a Triangle 220
Activity 2: Finding the Sum of the Exterior Angles of a Triangle 221
Activity 3: Angles, Parallel Lines, and Transversals 222
Activity 4: Angle-Angle Similarity 223

Geometry: 8.G.6 227
Activity 1: I Can Explain It 227
Activity 2: The Pythagorean Puzzle 228

Geometry: 8.G.7 230
Activity: Applying the Pythagorean Theorem 230

Geometry: 8.G.8 232
Activity: Finding the Distance 232

Geometry: 8.G.9 234
Activity: Finding the Volume 234

Statistics and Probability: 8.SP.1 237
Activity: Making a Scatter Plot 237

Statistics and Probability: 8.SP.2 239
Activity: Drawing the Line of Best Fit 239

Statistics and Probability: 8.SP.3 241
Activity: Using Linear Equations to Solve Problems 241

Statistics and Probability: 8.SP.4 243
Activity: Analyzing Two-Way Tables 244

Index 247