Real life math projects

Have you started using math projects as a part of your regular upper elementary math instruction... because you should be! When I’m looking for rigorous practice that’s so fun the students almost forget they’re learning, I turn to math projects! Take a peek at how I incorporate real world math projects into our regular classroom routines.

Dive into this self-guided real life math project with 9 levels of critical thinking, designing, business planning, building, calculations and more. Open up your ice cream shop for three seasons and see what it takes. Can you market your shop with a great logo and name, lay out the shop, build it (using a 3D component), set a menu and make a profit? Try your skills at this fun filled project that encompasses design, math and critical thinking!

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Discover some creative and fun math projects that your students will love and are easy to integrate into any curriculum. These projects are hands on and applicable in real life, so your students will be engaged.

These real life math activities are a great way to engage 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classroom or homeschool students in project based learning and financial literacy. Great for upper elementary with the differentiated and editable options. Great to work on basic math skills, standards, individualized mathematics, extend the learning into the home or community, and more. Use these before breaks, during short weeks, after state testing, and more. Second, third, fourth, & fifth grader…

Math extra credit Project!

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Figure Me Out - Math Project

5th grade final math project. Foldables. Interactive popups. Common Core, creating graphs, analyzing data, summarizing results

Math Projects & Activities I have a passion for creating engaging, meaningful, real world projects for my students to complete. My math projects and activities are often designed as enrichment and opportunities for teachers to differentiate their curriculum. Thousands of teachers around the world use these projects (which blows my mind!), and I hope you...

The 3rd grade Common Core standards are pushing us to reach a deeper understanding of many topics. For example, area is covered in much more...

Have students write (and solve) their own percent word problems! Helps them see the real-life connections to the math they learn in school

Bar graph for monthly expenditures of my family

Students select a profession with a salary and monthly student loan payment out of a hat. Working with a partner they have to budget their money with the help of a spreadsheet in order to "buy" a house and a car in our metro area. One student said about this project: "This project was very useful/helpful. The most useful project that any of my teachers have given me." Click to read more!

Using Simple Home Projects to Teach Kids Math | Real World Math

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Students find a parabola in the real world and then have to find the equation to create the graph to match their picture. Students love this math project!

Get math project inspiration and check out this camping themed multiplication project! This project using arrays is a great fit for 3rd grade and 4th grade math. Make it a part of guided math, math workshop, or as a stand alone lesson! Project based learning is a great way for kids to make connections between math and the real world. Read more here!

The number of terms that students are expected to learn in geometry is a little crazy. We counted 30 different new vocabulary words at the end of four days of instruction. So I checked out an iPa…