JUDITH A. MUSCHLA has taught mathematics in South River, New Jersey, for over twenty-five years. She has been a member of the state Standards Review Panel for the Mathematics Core Curriculum Content Standards in New Jersey. GARY ROBERT MUSCHLA taught at Appleby School in Spotswood, New Jersey, for more than twenty-five years. Judith and Gary have coauthored several books, including The Algebra Teacher's Activities Kit, Hands-On Math Projects with Real Life Applications, The Math Teacher's Book of Lists, and Math Starters. ERIN MUSCHLA teaches 8th grade math and algebra at Monroe Township Middle School in Monroe, New Jersey, and has collaborated with Judith and Gary on three previous math books.

• About This Book vAbout the Authors viiAcknowledgments ixSection 1: Standards and Activities for Grade 6 1Ratios and Proportional Relationships: 6.RP.1 2Activity: Ratios All Around Us 2Ratios and Proportional Relationships: 6.RP.2 4Activity: Unit Rate Tic-Tac-Toe 4Ratios and Proportional Relationships: 6.RP.3 6Activity: The Faster Rate 7The Number System: 6.NS.1 9Activity: Modeling Division of Fractions 9The Number System: 6.NS.2 12Activity 1: Snork’s Long Division 12Activity 2: Long Division Relay Race 13The Number System: 6.NS.3 15Activity: Decimal Operation Tournament 15The Number System: 6.NS.4 17Activity: The Numbers Game 17The Number System: 6.NS.5 19Activity: Finding the Opposite 19The Number System: 6.NS.6 22Activity 1: Graphing on a Number Line 22Activity 2: Bonk the Mole 24The Number System: 6.NS.7 25Activity: An Old-Fashioned Number Line 25The Number System: 6.NS.8 27Activity: The Maze Game 27Expressions and Equations: 6.EE.1 29Activity: Find Which Does Not Belong 29Expressions and Equations: 6.EE.2 32Activity: And It Equals 32Expressions and Equations: 6.EE.3 35Activity: Presenting Properties 35Expressions and Equations: 6.EE.4 37Activity: Partner Quiz 37Expressions and Equations: 6.EE.5 39Activity: Three in a Row 39Expressions and Equations: 6.EE.6 42Activity: A Slice of Life with Variables and Expressions 42Expressions and Equations: 6.EE.7 44Activity: Equations, Equations, Equations 44Expressions and Equations: 6.EE.8 46Activity: Find Your Match 47Expressions and Equations: 6.EE.9 51Activity 1: Examining Relationships 51Activity 2: Comparing Heart Rates 52Geometry: 6.G.1 54Activity 1: It’s Half 54Activity 2: It’s Awe-Sum 55Geometry: 6.G.2 57Activity: It’s Voluminous 57Geometry: 6.G.3 60Activity: Initials 60Geometry: 6.G.4 63Activity: Finding the Surface Area of Nets 63Statistics and Probability: 6.SP.1 65Activity: Statistical Questions Versus Nonstatistical Questions 65Statistics and Probability: 6.SP.2 67Activity: And the Answer is 67Statistics and Probability: 6.SP.3 69Activity: Measure of Center Versus Measure of Variation 69Statistics and Probability: 6.SP.4 72Activity: Creating Data Displays 72Statistics and Probability: 6.SP.5 75Activity: Summarizing Data 75Section 2: Standards and Activities for Grade 7 79Ratios and Proportional Relationships: 7.RP.1 80Activity: What  in s the Unit Rate? 81Ratios and Proportional Relationships: 7.RP.2 84Activity: Proportions Scavenger Hunt 84Ratios and Proportional Relationships: 7.RP.3 86Activity 1: Gifts for the Holidays 86Activity 2: Very Interesting 89The Number System: 7.NS.1 90Activity: The Virtual Classroom 90The Number System: 7.NS.2 92Activity 1: The Distributive Property War 93Activity 2: Which One Should Be Excluded? 96The Number System: 7.NS.3 98Activity: Playing the Stock Market 98Expressions and Equations: 7.EE.1 104Activity: Algebraic Expressions Jigsaw 104Expressions and Equations: 7.EE.2 106Activity: Rewriting Expressions 106Expressions and Equations: 7.EE.3 108Activity: Estimation Game 108Expressions and Equations: 7.EE.4 110Activity 1: Writing Equations 110Activity 2: Solving Inequalities 112Geometry: 7.G.1 114Activity: Scaling Your Classroom 114Geometry: 7.G.2 116Activity: Creating Triangles 116Geometry: 7.G.3 119Activity 1: A Virtual Cube 119Activity 2: Slicing Figures 120Geometry: 7.G.4 121Activity 1: Circle Scavenger Hunt 121Activity 2: What’s the Relationship? 122Geometry: 7.G.5 124Activity: What’s the Angle? 124Geometry: 7.G.6 127Activity: Let’s Build It 127Statistics and Probability: 7.SP.1 129Activity: Examining Samples 129Statistics and Probability: 7.SP.2 131Activity: How Many Cubes? 131Statistics and Probability: 7.SP.3 133Activity: How Well Did They Do? 133Statistics and Probability: 7.SP.4 136Activity: What Can We Say? 136Statistics and Probability: 7.SP.5 139Activity: On a Scale of Zero to One 139Statistics and Probability: 7.SP.6 143Activity: Probability Simulations 143Statistics and Probability: 7.SP.7 145Activity 1: Spinner Experiment 145Activity 2: Flipping a Marshmallow 146Statistics and Probability: 7.SP.8 148Activity 1: Working with Sample Spaces 148Activity 2: Simulating Events 149Section 3: Standards and Activities for Grade 8 151The Number System: 8.NS.1 152Activity: Math Tic-Tac-Toe 153The Number System: 8.NS.2 154Activity 1: Zeroing In 154Activity 2: Irrational Numbers—They’re Insane 155Expressions and Equations: 8.EE.1 157Activity: What Does It Equal? 157Expressions and Equations: 8.EE.2 160Activity: Creating Squares and Cubes 161Expressions and Equations: 8.EE.3 162Activity 1: Expressing Numbers in Scientific Notation 162Activity 2: It’s How Many Times as Much 163Expressions and Equations: 8.EE.4 165Activity 1: Math Bingo 166Activity 2: Metric Prefixes 167Expressions and Equations: 8.EE.5 169Activity: It’s Proportional 169Expressions and Equations: 8.EE.6 171Activity 1: The Slope is the Same 171Activity 2: I Have Derived It 172Expressions and Equations: 8.EE.7 176Activity: Which One Doesn’t Belong? 177Expressions and Equations: 8.EE.8 179Activity 1: What’s the Point? 180Activity 2: Students Teaching 181Functions: 8.F.1 183Activity 1: Using a Function Machine 183Activity 2: And Now for a Skit, a Song, a Poem, or a 184Functions: 8.F.2 185Activity: What’s My Function? 185Functions: 8.F.3 189Activity: A Function Scavenger Hunt 189Functions: 8.F.4 191Activity 1: Four in a Row 191Activity 2: Everyday Uses of Linear Functions 192Functions: 8.F.5 198Activity: Describing a Graph 198Geometry: 8.G.1 201Activity: Transformations 201Geometry: 8.G.2 205Activity 1: Find the Image 205Activity 2: From Here to There 206Geometry: 8.G.3 210Activity: I’ve Scrambled My Notes 210Geometry: 8.G.4 215Activity: I Found the Image 215Geometry: 8.G.5 219Activity 1: Finding the Sum of the Interior Angles of a Triangle 220Activity 2: Finding the Sum of the Exterior Angles of a Triangle 221Activity 3: Angles, Parallel Lines, and Transversals 222Activity 4: Angle-Angle Similarity 223Geometry: 8.G.6 227Activity 1: I Can Explain It 227Activity 2: The Pythagorean Puzzle 228Geometry: 8.G.7 230Activity: Applying the Pythagorean Theorem 230Geometry: 8.G.8 232Activity: Finding the Distance 232Geometry: 8.G.9 234Activity: Finding the Volume 234Statistics and Probability: 8.SP.1 237Activity: Making a Scatter Plot 237Statistics and Probability: 8.SP.2 239Activity: Drawing the Line of Best Fit 239Statistics and Probability: 8.SP.3 241Activity: Using Linear Equations to Solve Problems 241Statistics and Probability: 8.SP.4 243Activity: Analyzing Two-Way Tables 244Index 247