Proportions with SImilar Figures

Are you teaching proportions?

Do your students need support in setting up and solving proportions?

This Card Sort Activity lesson is designed to give students scaffolded support in reading a word problem, writing a proportion, and solving the proportion. Students will make connections with proportions and become fluent at setting up proportions.

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Included in this lesson are:

-One formative assessment (pre-test) task 
-Card sort activity with concept development of proportions Proportions with Similar Figures Cut & Paste Activity (Value $4.00)
-One extension activity for students to deepen their conception of proportions
-One summative assessment (post-test) task 
-Answer keys for all the assessments and activities
-How the lesson is tied to common core and mathematical practices

What teachers are saying about this Card Sort Activity Lesson

"A great resource! Thanks we really needed this extra practice!"

"Nice questions!  Very thoughtful and all types."

"I have such limited experience with 7th grade standards, so this resource was helpful for me to get started and engage students in the content! Thank you for creating this!"

Students can be successful with this activity and show learning gains on the post assessment. This can be used for data collection or grading. Students will understand how to write and solve proportions and feel successful in the process.

Happy Teaching!

Card Sort Activity Lessons and Cut & Paste Math Activities Bundle Grade 8

A GROWING bundle of 8th Grade Card Sort Activity Lessons and Cut & Paste Math Activities!

This bundle is already huge! Over 100 pages of interactive grade 8 mathematics concept development that you can just print and use with your students! All Card Sort Lesson Plan activities include card sort lesson, assessments, and ANSWER KEYS!

This BUNDLE includes:

1. Graphing Functions with Tables, Graphs, and Equations
2. Identity, One Solution, or No Solution Equations
3. Analyzing Function Graphs
4. Graphing & Comparing Proportional Relationships
5. Scatter Plot Patterns
6. Writing Linear Equations
7. Powers & Exponents
8. Linear Relationships with Scatter Plots

Coming Soon:
9. Real Numbers
10. Non-Proportional Relationships
11. Slope and Intercept
12. Writing Linear Equations
13. Solving Systems of Equations
14. Transformations and Congruence
15. Transformations and Similarity
16. Angle Relationships in Parallel Lines and Triangles
17. The Pythagorean Theorem
18. The Pythagorean Theorem (distance)
19. Volume
20. Two-Way Tables
21. Irrational Numbers
22. Square and Cube Roots

These activities are the BEST at engaging students in Math. Students cut, paste, and apply understandings of 8th grade Math concepts to problem solve. They use their critical thinking skills to make sense of the Math. All types of learners preserve to get the answers correct and solve the problems. Truly a game changer in any classroom. Watch the light bulb "AHA!" moments happen for your students when they complete these activities. Included are assessments for data tracking to see the growth of your students with these Card Sort Activity Lessons.

Happy Teaching!

Card Sort Activity Lessons and Cut & Paste Math Activities Bundle Grade 7

A COMPLETED Bundle of 7th Grade Card Sort Activity Lessons and Cut & Paste Activities !
This bundle is huge! Over 300+ pages of interactive grade 7 mathematics concept development that you can just print and use with your students! All Card Sort Lesson Plan activities include card sort lesson, cut & paste activities, assessments, and ANSWER KEYS!

This BUNDLE includes:
1. Graphing Equations to Find Proportional Relationships
2. Percents, Fractions, and Decimals
3. Proportions with Similar Figures
4. Unit Rates & Ratios
5. Direct Variation
6. Inverse Variation
7. Variables & Expressions
8. Writing & Solving Inequalities
9. Writing & Solving Multi-Step Equations
10. Scale Drawings
11. Drawing Geometric Shapes
12. Plane Sections
13. Circles: Circumference & Area
14. Finding Unknown Angles
15. Area, Volume, & Surface Area
16. Operations with Integers
17. Random Samples & Populations
18. Analyzing & Comparing Statistical Data
19. Experimental & Theoretical Probability
20. Compound Probability
21. Rational Numbers
22.Proportions and Percents

These activities are the BEST at engaging students in Math. Students cut, paste, and apply understandings of 7th grade Math concepts to problem solve. They use their critical thinking skills to make sense of the Math. All types of learners preserve to get the answers correct and solve the problems. Truly a game changer in any classroom. Watch the light bulb "AHA!" moments happen for your students when they complete these activities. Included are assessments for data tracking to see the growth of your students with these Card Sort Activity Lessons.

Happy Teaching!

Card Sort Activity Lessons and Cut & Paste Math Activities Bundle Grade 6

A GROWING bundle of 6th Grade Card Sort Activity Lessons and Cut & Paste Activities!
This bundle is already huge! Over 200 pages of interactive grade 6 mathematics concept development that you can just print and use with your students! All Card Sort Lesson Plan activities include card sort lesson, cut & paste activities, assessments, and ANSWER KEYS!

This BUNDLE includes:
1. Equivalent Expressions & Variables
2. Writing & Solving Expressions with Exponents
3. Represent & Analyze Relationships with Two Variables
4. Compose & Decompose Triangles and Quadrilaterals
5. Finding Volume of Right Rectangular Prisms
6. Polygons and Distances in a Coordinate Plane
7. Using Nets to Find Surface Area of Rectangles and Triangles
8. Statistical Questions & Distributions of Data Sets Card Sort Activity Lesson
9. Finding the Mean & Deviations of Data Sets
10. Displaying Data on Line Plots, Histograms, and Box Plots
11. Summarizing Numerical Data Sets
Coming Soon:
12. Integers
13. Factors & Multiples
14. Rational Numbers
15. Operations with Fractions
16. Operations with Decimals
17. Representing Ratios and Rates
18. Applying Ratios & Rates
19. Percents
20. Equations and Relationships
21. Area & Polygons
22. Volume

These activities are great to use with all types of students. Engaging all learners to actively look for answers in solving math problems and make sense of grade-level math concepts. All Common Core State Standards are covered in this bundle, which makes it easy to print and go at any time with your students! I hope your students all these cut & paste activities, assessments, and extension activities included too.

Happy Teaching!

Teaching Expressions and Equations {Grade 7}

Are you getting ready to teach Expressions and Equations to your students?

If you said YES, there are lots of different ways that you can approach the subject in a meaningful way to bring your students' conceptual knowledge to mastery. My favorites ways to introduce the concept of Expressions and Equations are with Card Sort Activity Lessons. I first give the pre-assessment, then do the Card Sort activity with the class. (I save the assessment data for data meetings or conferences). The Card Sort activities are cut & paste. The students have to figure out how the pieces go together, if something is missing that they have to conclude to solve, and then prove to the teacher (me) how they solved the problems. After a successful Card Sort Activity Lesson, the extension activity can be used to further learning or just end with the Post Assessment to see what the students learned from the activity. This is a great way to assess and engage ALL students in your classroom!

The next activity that gets students thinking is their Interactive Notebook activities. Laying the groundwork for what are expressions and equations? Having the students interact with the concepts and write about it in their notebooks. Practicing and applying is a big piece of what Interactive Math Notebooks are about. Students are creating and showing their knowledge of the concepts in their Notebooks and building upon prior Math knowledge.

Then after some time going over the concepts, use the Math Stations activity as reinforcement for the Math and review for those who have mastered the concepts. It's easy to help keep the students on task with the 7 different station cards by using groups of 2-4 students. Simply PRINT & GO! These Math stations are easy to implement and facilitate in the classroom. Students LOVE Math stations and keep them busy and engaged the entire time. This usually takes 1-2 days to complete depending on the schedule. Math Stations are great to have students practice the Math and extend their learning.

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This math station activity is intended to help students understand how to apply properties of operations as strategies to add, subtract, factor, and expand linear expressions. Students will use variables to represent quantities in a real-world mathematical problem, construct simple equations, and solve word problems leading to equations and compare algebraic solutions.

Included are:
-7 different stations to engage students
-Teacher facilitated activity for 60-90 minutes of classroom time
-Stations include:
1. Vocabulary
2. Technology (Need classroom computers & internet access to ixl.com)
3. Practice of Expressions & Equations
4. Additional Practice of Expressions & Equations
5. Real World applications of Expressions & Equations
6. Word problems of Expressions & Equations
7. Teacher Station
-Student Station Guide helps students record their answers
-Blank Student Station Guide for students to record their answers
-Student Station Guide helps students record their answers
-ALL ANSWER KEYS included

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These interactive notebook activities are intended to help students understand how to apply properties of operations as strategies to add, subtract, factor, and expand linear expressions. Students will use variables to represent quantities in a real-world mathematical problem, construct simple equations, and solve word problems leading to equations and compare algebraic solutions.

Included are:
-4 different Expressions & Equations activities to engage students
-Teacher facilitated activity for 60-90 minutes of classroom time
-Activities include: Vocabulary, Simplifying Algebraic Expressions, Solving One-Step Equations and Solving Two-Step Equations
-Examples of Completed Interactive Math Notebook Activities are included

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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to apply properties of operations as strategies to add, subtract, factor, and expand linear expressions, and understand that rewriting an expression in different forms in a problem context can shed light on the problem and how the quantities in it are related.
Included in this lesson are:
-one formative assessment (pre-test) task
-card sort activity with concept development of variables and expressions
-one extension activity for students to deepen their conception of expressions
-one summative assessment (post-test) task
-answer keys for all the assessments and activities
-how the lesson is tied to common core and mathematical practices

I hope these activities for Expressions and Equations are helpful in your classroom too. Remember to keep your students at the center of your lessons and watch them shine!

Happy Teaching!

Teaching Functions {Grade 8}

One skill that students need to master in eighth grade is functions. In sixth and seventh grade students lay the foundations for equations and functions. Now that they are in eighth grade they are using the equation skills from sixth and seventh grade. Students often make mistakes with setting up the function table, making connections between the function table and graph or function table and equation. These are simple mistakes that you can prevent with practice.

 

I have listed here activities to review and practice Functions. I hope these help jump start your lesson planning. The key to getting your students involved in the learning process is to include interactive, visual, engaging activities for them to actively participate in.

{Click HERE for Math Stations: Functions Grade 8}

 

This math station activity is intended to help students understand how to graph proportional relationships, understand that a function is a rule that assigns one input to one output exactly, compare properties of two functions, interpret the equation y = mx + b, construct a function, determine the rate of change of a function, and describe the functional relationship between two quantities. 

Included are: 
-6 different stations to engage students
-Teacher facilitated activity for 60-90 minutes of classroom time
-Stations include:
1. Vocabulary
2. Technology (Need classroom computers & internet access to ixl.com)
3. Practice of Functions
4. Additional Practice of Functions
5. Real World applications of Functions
6. Word problems of Functions
-Student Station Guide helps students record their answers
-ALL ANSWER KEYS included

 

 

{Click HERE for the Interactive Math Notebook: Functions Grade 8}

These interactive notebook activities are intended to help students understand how to graph proportional relationships, understand that a function is a rule that assigns one input to one output exactly, compare properties of two functions, interpret the equation y = mx + b, construct a function, determine the rate of change of a function, and describe the functional relationship between two quantities. 

Included are: 
-4 different Functions activities to engage students
-Teacher facilitated activity for 60-90 minutes of classroom time
-Activities include: Vocabulary, Completing a function table and graph from a linear function rule, Writing a rule from two points using slope-intercept form, and Writing a rule, completing a function table, and drawing a graph from a function word problem.
-Examples of Completed Interactive Math Notebook Activities are included

{Click HERE for the Card Sort Activity: Graphing Functions with Tables, Graphs, & Equations}

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to assess and graph functions in tables, graphs, and equations.

Included in this lesson are:
-one formative assessment (pre-test) task 
-card sort activity with concept development of functions
-one extension activity for students to deepen their conception of functions
-one summative assessment (post-test) task 
-answer keys for all the assessments and activities
-how the lesson is tied to Common core and mathematical practices

{Click HERE for Card Sort Activity & Assessment: Analyzing Function Graphs}

 

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to describe qualitatively the functional relationship between two quantities by analyzing a graph (e.g., where the function is increasing or decreasing, linear or nonlinear). Sketch a graph that exhibits the qualitative features of a function that has been described verbally.

Included in this lesson are:
-one formative assessment (pre-test) task 
-card sort activity with concept development of analyzing functions
-one extension activity for students to deepen their conception of analyzing functions
-one summative assessment (post-test) task 
-answer keys for all the assessments and activities
-how the lesson is tied to common core and mathematical practices

 

 

I hope these resources are helpful in getting your students engaged in Functions. Keeping students actively engaged in the learning process will ensure that they are in charge of their own learning. The goal of learning Functions is to set up the foundations for Algebra skills in the future. Students must master functions in eighth grade to be able to achieve success in Algebra. Your teaching is important and the students need to actively be engaged in the process.

 

Teaching Proportions & Percents {Grade 7}

One skills that is often difficult for seventh grade students is learning proportions and percents. In sixth grade students learn the foundations for how to solve proportions for seventh grade. Now that they are in seventh grade they need to use those foundational skills to build upon. Students often make mistakes with setting up proportions, multiplying and solving proportions, and setting up to solve percents.

 

I have listed here activities to review and practice Proportions and Percents. I hope these help jump start your lesson planning into the world of Proportional Relationships. The key to getting your students involved in the learning process is to include interactive, visual, engaging activities for them to actively participate in.

{Click HERE for IMN: Proportions & Percents Grade 7}

 

These interactive notebook activities are intended to help students understand how to use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems, understand that rewriting an expression in different forms in a problem context can shed light on the problem, and solve multi-step real-life and mathematical problems posed with rational numbers.

Included are:
-4 different Proportions & Percents activities to engage students
-Teacher facilitated activity for 60-90 minutes of classroom time
-Activities include: Vocabulary, finding the part, whole, or Percent, Finding Sales tax and Discounts, and Finding Simple Interest.
-Examples of Completed Interactive Math Notebook Activities are included

 

 

{Click HERE for the Math Station: Proportions & Percents}

This math station activity is intended to help students understand how to use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems, understand that rewriting an expression in different forms in a problem context can shed light on the problem, and solve multi-step real-life and mathematical problems posed with rational numbers.

Included are:
-6 different stations to engage students
-Teacher facilitated activity for 60-90 minutes of classroom time
-Stations include:
1. Vocabulary
2. Technology (Need classroom computers & internet access to ixl.com)
3. Practice of Proportions & Percents
4. Additional Practice of Proportions & Percents
5. Real World applications of Proportions & Percents
6. Word problems of Proportions & Percents
-Student Station Guide helps students record their answers
-ALL ANSWER KEYS included

{Click HERE for the Math Foldable Notes: Ratios & Proportional Relationships}

These math foldable notes are for students to be able to understand compute unit rates, ratios with fractions, measure quantities in like or different units, recognize and represent proportional relationships, decide whether two quantities are proportional, identify the constant of proportionality (unit rate), show the unit rate in tables, graphs and equations, represent proportional relationships by equations, explain points on a graph of a proportional relationship, and use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems.

Included are:
-7 different NO PREP Math Foldable Notes to engage students in note taking
-Teacher facilitated activity for 15-20 minutes of classroom time each
-PRINT & GO foldable notes that are ready with NO PREP
-Directions for using Math Foldables in your classroom
-Options for scaffolding with blank templates
-Foldables included:
Foldable: Percent of a Number
Foldable: Percent Proportion
Foldable: Percent and Estimation
Foldable: The Percent Equation
Foldable: Percent of Change
Foldable: Sales Tax and Discount
Foldable: Simple Interest
Foldable: Four Blank Templates

{Click HERE for Card Sort Activity & Assessment: Proportions with Similar Figures}

 

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to identify when two quantities vary in direct proportion to each other, represent two quantities as directly proportional relationships, and solve proportional problems using efficient methods.Included in this lesson are:
-one formative assessment (pre-test) task
-card sort activity with concept development of proportions
-one extension activity for students to deepen their conception of proportions
-one summative assessment (post-test) task
-answer keys for all the assessments and activities
-how the lesson is tied to common core and mathematical practices

 

{Click HERE for the November: No Prep Math Packet Grade 7}

 

This November Math NO PREP packet that will keep your seventh graders engaged! This packet is just plain fun. Not only is it PACKED with seventh-grade common core math problems, it also gives students fun coloring, puzzles, and problem solving. Use this packet for bellwork, classwork, extra credit, fast finishers, or homework!
Topics Covered: -Rational Numbers
-Rates and Proportionality
-Graphing on a Coordinate Plane
-Proportions
-Percents

I hope these resources are helpful in getting your students engaged in Proportions & Percents. Keeping students actively engaged in the learning process will ensure that they are in charge of their own learning. The goal of learning Proportions is to set up the foundations for Algebra skills in the future. Students must master proportions in seventh grade to be able to achieve success in Algebra. Your teaching is important and the students need to actively be engaged in the process.

 

Middle School Card Sort Activity {YouTube Video}