Spooky season has arrived, and that means it’s time to bring a little Halloween math into your classroom! Celebrate fall’s favorite holiday and incorporate real-world math with The Halloween Candy Competition: A Fall Math Project Based Learning Activity. Designed for students to use their addition, subtraction, and multiplication skills, this PBL candy competition will push students to budget their money, stretch their strategy skills, and collect the most candy possible. Students will be so engaged as they choose a job at a haunted house, create a costume, and choose their transportation that they won’t even realize how hard they’re stretching their math skills!
The Christmas season has arrived, and Santa needs help with the Christmas math calculations! Celebrate Christmas and incorporate real-world math to help Santa Claus with The Christmas Math Present Delivery Competition: A Math Project Based Learning Activity. Designed for students to use their addition, subtraction, and multiplication skills, this present delivery competition will push students to budget their money, stretch their strategy skills, and help Santa with this year’s present delivery. Students will be so engaged in this PBL as they choose a seasonal Christmas job, design a sleigh, and plan a present delivery route that they won’t even realize how hard they’re stretching their math skills!
End of the Year Plan a Field Day Math Project is a real-world math project that gives students the freedom to design all aspects of a Field Day. Students will complete the to-do list to plan the activities, run the events, and wrap up at the end of Field Day. Each step is a different activity that students must complete. These activities are independent of each other meaning that they don’t need to be completed in steps or together.
Working dog parents rejoice! Businesses that provide daycare, grooming, and boarding for our furry friends are popping up across the country. Now we’re asking students to create one of their very own. Create Your Own Dog Business is a real-world math project that gives students the freedom to create and design a dog business. They’ll use the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) to find a location, secure a bank loan, choose equipment, use a blueprint to design different rooms, create and price grooming services, price homemade dog treats, market their business, and more.
I created this real-world math project as a fun way to share this fall-time experience with students and help them practice different skills such as analyzing, problem-solving, and math skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and area). Students will complete the seven steps of this resource to create their own cider mill. Each step is a different activity that they must complete.
