5 Awesome 8th Grade Scientific Notation Activities

Are you looking for fun and engaging activities for helping your kids understand scientific notation?

You can use the following activity ideas to differentiate your instruction and help your kids to gain a deeper conceptual understanding of this challenging topic:

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1.) Scientific Notation Sort Cards via Amazing Mathematics

Activity Description:

This hands-on sorting activity consists of 22 matching Scientific & Standard notation pairs. Students will cut out a mixture of 22 Scientific & Standard notation numbers, convert them to the other type of notation, and then glue them next to the corresponding number.

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2.) Scientific Notation Puzzle via Math Dyal

Activity Description:

Give this hands-on activity a try for a fun way to practice writing small and large numbers using scientific notation. Students will need to "attend to precision" because several of the problems have the same coefficient but different exponents - forcing students to really focus on the function of the exponent. 

Click here to learn more.
 

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3.) Scientific Notation Explained in the Real-World!

(Video Lesson) via Mashup Math

Activity Description:

This animated math video lesson is the perfect introduction to the concepts and procedures associated with scientific notation. The lesson includes several real-world examples of how to use scientific notation to express large numbers such as the population of the state of Arizona!

Click here to watch the video on YouTube!

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4.) Foldable Wheel Graphic Organizer via Common Core Material

Activity Description:

This foldable has two layers: example and steps. Students will be solving 4 problems on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers in scientific notation. This foldable is a great handheld study tool or can be glued into their interactive notebooks. In addition, students can personalize their foldables by coloring them. Your students will love this! 

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5.) Scientific Notation Maze via Amazing Mathematics

Activity Description:

This maze consists of 11 numbers that students must convert from standard notation to scientific notation. This maze consists of "big" and "small" numbers that require a both positive and negative exponents. Not all boxes are used in the maze to prevent students from just figuring out the route.

Click here to learn more.

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Note: Learning Standard: Perform operations with numbers expressed in scientific notation, including problems where both decimal and scientific notation are used. Use scientific notation and choose units of appropriate size for measurements of very large or very small quantities (e.g., use millimeters per year for seafloor spreading). Interpret scientific notation that has been generated by technology.

Did I miss a great activity for teaching Scientific Notation? Share your thoughts and suggestions in the comments section below!

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Anthony is the content crafter and head educator for YouTube's MashUp Math and an advisor to Amazon Education's 'With Math I Can' Campaign. You can often find me happily developing animated math lessons to share on my YouTube channel . Or spending way too much time at the gym or playing on my phone.

Halloween Math: 13 Days of Spooky Math Challenges for Grades 1-8

Halloween Math Activities for Grades 1-8

Add these super fun (and extra spooky) math puzzles to your collection of Halloween Math Activities for elementary and middel school students. Enjoy!

Are you prepared to keep your students focused on learning math during the excitement of the Halloween season?

Sometimes it takes more than an extra shot of espresso in your pumpkin spice latte to get the job done and savvy math teachers know how to channel their student's excitement into holiday-themed activities.

And since preparing activities can be time-consuming (and you're already so busy this school year as it is), my gift to you this Halloween season is 13 Days of Spooky Math Challenges! 

The following printable Halloween Math Worksheets allow you to inject a little bit of spooky mathematics into your lessons this month.

Each puzzle is a sample from our best-selling workbook 101 Daily Math Challenges for Engaging Students in Grades 3-8, which is available as a PDF download and as a hard copy on Amazon.

Each Halloween Math Worksheet shares a challenge question (answers are included) appropriate for all elementary and middle school grade levels - they are perfect for warm-ups, exit tickets, and homework and extra credit assignments.

Parents can also share these fun challenge questions with your kids to keep them engaged and thinking mathematically this fall.

Now let's get problem-solving!

Download Instructions: You can download any of the challenges by right-clicking the image and saving it to your computer or by dragging-and-dropping each image to your desktop.

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1.) Day 1 of 13

(Hint: Notice that it takes two black cats to make one pumpkin!)

Black Cat = 6

Cauldron = 14

Pumpkin = 12

? = 8

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2.) Day 2 of 13

(Hint: Start with the bucket!)

Candy = 9

Zombie = 1

Bucket = 7

Cat = 5

? = 35

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Share this puzzles with your students on Halloween day!

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3.) Day 3 of 13

(Hint: Notice that the pumpkin and the witch's hat have the same value!)

Ghost = 8

Bat = 1

Pumpkin = 4

Witch's Hat = 4

? = 31

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4.) Day 4 of 13

(Hint: Start with the haunted house and don't forget order of operations)

Spider Web = 10

Witch = 5

Moon = 7

Haunted House = 8

? = 30

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5.) Day 5 of 13

(Hint: Start with the ghost first!)

Ghost = 13

Scarecrow = 4

Tree = 7

? = 16

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6.) Day 6 of 13

(Hint: I know it's scary, but start with the zombie hand!)

Werewolf = 5

Witch's Hat = 2

Zombie Hand = 8

Owl = 6

? = 21

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7.) Day 7 of 13

(Hint: To find the haunted house, think about what value that when subtracted from 12 equals that same value!)

Ghost = 25

Broom = 15

Haunted House = 6

? = 16

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8.) Day 8 of 13

(Hint: All candy bags are created equal!)

Candy Bag = 9

Bats = 10

Boo! = 9

Witch = 1

? = 20

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9.) Day 9 of 13

(Hint: Each value comes from doing something to the previous value)

Case #1: ? = 35 (each value increases by one more than its difference with the previous value: +4, +5, +6, ...) 

Case #2: ? = 95 (each value increases by twice its difference with the previous value: +6, +12, +24, ...)

Case #3: ? = 121 (each value increases by the square of the difference with the previous value: +3,+9,+27,...)

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10.) 10 of 13

(Hint: The growth pattern is exponential!)

1,3,6,10,...

Notice that the first value increases by 2, the second value increases by 3, the third value increases by 4, etc.

Case 5: 15 Zombies

Case 8: 36 Zombies

What about case 100?

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11.) Day 11 of 13

(Hint: Remember the multiplicative identity!)

Vampire Lips: 0

Moon = 1

Pumpkin = 2

Frankenstein: 0

Black Cat = 4

Zombie Hand = 5

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12.) Day 12 of 13

(Hint: You need to visualize this situation by drawing a diagram and/or using manipulatives and colored pencils or markers!)

Case 4: 25 Faces

Case 5: 36 Faces

Case n: (n+1)^2

*This question was inspired by Jo Boaler's TED Talk: How You Can Be Good at Math and Other Surprising Facts About Learning.

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13.) Day 13 of 13

(Hint: Think about what kinds of values have a product ending in 5.)

25 x 13 = 325

Bat = 20

Pumpkin = 5

Witch = 10

Leaf = 50

Ghost = 60

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Save the tricks and the treats (except for the bite-sized Twix bars - those I'll take), I just want your input. Please (oh please, oh please) share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Free Twosday Math Activities for Grades K-8

Free Twosday 2022 Math Worksheets for Grades K-8

It’s not every day that you find a once-in-a-lifetime event on your calendar. Now that 2022 has arrived, you can circle the twenty-second day of February on your calendar and label it as Twosday. Why? Because the twenty-second day of February, 2-22-22, is the twenty-second day of the second month of the two-thousandth and twenty-second year. And if that is not already enough twos for you, this special date actually falls on a Tuesday—or Twosday, which is hands-down the most numerically significant day of the calendar year.

 Just to recap, here is why February 22nd, 2022 is such an insanely significant date (and one that will not happen again for another one thousand years!):

•  February is the 2nd month of the calendar year

• February 22nd is the 22nd day of the second month

• The year is 2022

• The day of the week is a Tuesday

 Are you ready to celebrate Twosday 2022? If you’re looking for fun Twosday activities to share with your students either in your classroom or at home, then you’ll love our brand new math activities made specifically for this Twosday. Go ahead and include the following Twosday Math Activity Worksheets for Grades K-8 into your lesson plan for the first week of February, specifically February 22nd, 2022.

 Our free Twosday activities are fun, engaging, and easy to print and share in person or display on any size monitor or screen. They are tiered by difficulty and grade level and are best used for challenging students in grades K-8.

Holiday-themed math activities, worksheets, and puzzles are some of the best ways to challenge your students and give them meaningful learning opportunities to practice and develop their math and reasoning skills and number sense in a more engaging way (especially compared to simply having your students work on repetitive practice worksheets).

 Today’s activities even help young students to develop algebraic thinking skills years before they ever start taking any algebra or advanced math courses. And every activity includes a complete answer key.

 We recommend using these activities at the beginning of a lesson as a warm-up exercise or anticipatory set or at the end of a lesson as a cool-down activity or exit ticket. Of course, they can also be used at any other point during a lesson to supplement your instruction.

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How to Download: You can download any of the puzzles by right-clicking on the image and saving it to your computer or by dragging-and-dropping it to your desktop.

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1.) Find the value of the '?' (for Grades K-2)

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Use your math skills to find the value of each icon.

Peace Sign=1

Twins=11

Ice Cream Cone=10

?=20

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2.) Find the value of the '?' (for Grades 3-5)

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Use your math skills to find the value of each icon.

Peace Sign=4

Twins=8
Ice Cream Cone=9

Calendar=14
?=22

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3.) Find the value of the '?' (for Grades 6-8)

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Use your math skills to find the value of each icon.

Peace Sign=50

Twins=16
Ice Cream Cone=74

Calendar=84

?=202

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4.) Find the value of each symbol in the multiplication table.

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Use your math skills to find the value of each icon.

Ice Cream Cone=4

Peace Sign=8

Double Cheese Burger = 44

Girl Twins=16

Boy Twins = 484

Gemini=176

Calendar=88

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5.) Find the value of each symbol in the area model.

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Use your math skills to find the value of each icon.

Peace Sign=1

Ice Cream Cone=20

Double Cheeseburger=2,000

Twins=200

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6.) Think-Notice-Wonder (TNW) Writing Prompt

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Use your math skills to find the value of each icon.

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Free Canada Day Math Puzzles for Grades K-8

Are you ready to celebrate Canada Day with your math students this July 1st?

In Canada, July 1st commemorates the official day of Canada and the anniversary of the Canadian Confederation in 1867. This national holiday is celebrated with get together with family and friends, parties, music, parades, and fireworks.

And you can add working on fun math puzzles to the festivities this Canada Day, by sharing today’s free Canada Day Math Worksheets and Activities for Grades K-8 in your upcoming lesson plans. Today’s activities are super fun, 100% free, easy-to-print, and can be shared with children of all grade levels at home, in the classroom, or both!

These kinds of holiday-themed math puzzles and activities give your kids a chance to apply their math and reasoning skills in an enjoyable context that incorporates critical thinking, number sense, and even algebra skills!

So, if you are ready to channel your kid’s excitement for Canada Day this year into an enjoyable math learning opportunity, then be sure to take advantage of these free Canada Day Math Activities for Kids!

Each worksheet can be used as a warm-up/anticipatory set or cool-down activity as well as a key component to any math lesson for grades K-8. Full answer keys for each activity are included.

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Use your math skills to find the value of each icon.

Flag=6

Mountains=10

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?=3

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2.) Find the value of the '?' (for Grades 3-5)

Use your math skills to find the value of each icon.

Flag=4

Mountains=5

Hockey Player=3

Poutine=12
?=24

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3.) Find the value of the '?' (for Grades 6-8)

Use your math skills to find the value of each icon.

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Hockey Player=5

Poutine=10
?=89

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Anthony is the content crafter and head educator for YouTube's MashUp Math and an advisor to Amazon Education's 'With Math I Can' Campaign. You can often find me happily developing animated math lessons to share on my YouTube channel . Or spending way too much time at the gym or playing on my phone.

Free 4th of July Math Puzzles for Grades K-8

Are you ready to celebrate Independence Day with your math students this fourth of July?

In the United States, the 4th of July commemorates the date that the U.S. declared its independence from Great Britain in 1776. This national holiday is celebrated with grilling outdoors, pool parties, music, parades, and lots of fireworks.

And you can add working on fun math puzzles to the festivities this 4th of July, by sharing today’s free July 4th Math Worksheets and Activities for Grades K-8 in your upcoming lesson plans. Today’s activities are super fun, 100% free, easy-to-print, and can be shared with children of all grade levels at home, in the classroom, or both!

These kinds of holiday-themed math puzzles and activities give your kids a chance to apply their math and reasoning skills in an enjoyable context that incorporates critical thinking, number sense, and even algebra skills!

So, if you are ready to channel your kid’s excitement for Independence Day this year into an enjoyable math learning opportunity, then be sure to take advantage of these free 4th of July Math Activities for Kids!

Each worksheet can be used as a warm-up/anticipatory set or cool-down activity as well as a key component to any math lesson for grades K-8. Full answer keys for each activity are included.

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1.) Find the value of the '?' (for Grades K-2)

Use your math skills to find the value of each icon.

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2.) Find the value of the '?' (for Grades 3-5)

Use your math skills to find the value of each icon.

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Popsicle=4

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BBQ=3

?=24

Do you want access to hundreds of grade-specific holiday math activities for every month of the year? Become a Mashup Math member and access all of our K-8 math activity libraries. Start your free 7-day trial.

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3.) Find the value of the '?' (for Grades 6-8)

Use your math skills to find the value of each icon.

Fireworks=100

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Balloons=61

BBQ=34

?=68

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Anthony is the content crafter and head educator for YouTube's MashUp Math and an advisor to Amazon Education's 'With Math I Can' Campaign. You can often find me happily developing animated math lessons to share on my YouTube channel . Or spending way too much time at the gym or playing on my phone.