Problem Solving Tasks for Grades 6-8
Directions: 
1.  Select tasks that are the appropriate level of challenge for you.  Use the Exemplars rubric as a guide for explaining your solutions to the problems you choose from the “Palette of Problems” challenges below. 

• Palette of Problems 1 (from Teaching Middle School Mathematics)
• Palette of Problems 2 (from Teaching Middle School Mathematics)
• Palette of Problems 3 (from Teaching Middle School Mathematics)

2.  Honor System:  Do not read the solutions section until you are finished solving the problem(s) and have explained your thinking using the rubric referenced above.

3. Attach your solutions to the Summer Mathematics Fun Reflection Sheet and Summer Mathematics Fun Log.

Mathematics Games for Grades 5-8

Directions:  Explore mathematics games from all grade levels!

Grade 5 Investigations Games (Downloads)

• Close to One (Directions) and (Recording Sheet)
• Fraction Track (Directions), (Board 1), (Board 2)
• Small Array, Big Array (Directions) and (Recording Sheet)
• Array Cards
• Missing Factors (Directions), (Recording Sheet) and (Cards)
• Numeral Cards
• (Decimal Cards Set A) and (Decimal Cards Set B)
• Smaller to Larger (Directions)
• Division Compare (Directions) and (Recording Sheet)
• Decimal Compare (Directions) and (Recording Sheet)
• Multiplication Compare (Directions) and (Recording Sheet)
• Compare Cards

Information for Parents

• Information for Parents and Students
• Middle School Mathematics Games (from Teaching Middle School Mathematics)
• Learning Multiplication Combinations 

Double-Digit Multiplication Checklist

Grade 6 Information

• Information for Parents and Students
• Middle School Mathematics Games (from Teaching Middle School Mathematics)
• CMP2 Parent Guides

Grade 6 CMP2 Games (Online)

• The Factor Game Activity
• The Product Game Activity
• Locker Problem Activity
• The Fraction Game Activity
• The Target Game Activity
• Tessellations
• Bee Dance and Angles Activity
• Angle Sum Activity
• Linkage Strips Activity
  (Use Polystrips to build quadrilaterals)

Grade 7 Information

• Information for Parents and Students
• Middle School Mathematics Games (from Teaching Middle School Mathematics)
• CMP2 Parent Guides

Grade 7 CMP2 Games (Online)

• Virtual Box Activity
• Cylinder Wrapping Activity
• Designer Dart Boards Activity
• Interactive Chip Model Activity
  (Explore adding and subtracting using chips)
• Integer Product Game Activity

 

Grade 8 Information

• Information for Parents and Students
• Middle School Mathematics Games (from Teaching Middle School Mathematics)
• CMP2 Parent Guides

GGrade 8 CMP2 Games (Online)

• Virtual Bridge Experiment
  (Explore bridges with the Virtual Bridge Experiment)
• Interactive Pythagoras
  (Use Interactive Pythagoras to explore the Pythagorean Theorem)

Painted Cubes Activity


 

 

NECAP Release Tasks for Mathematics
2005 http://www.necompact.org/ea/gle_support/NECAP_2005.asp

2006 http://www.ride.ri.gov/assessment/necap_releaseditems.aspx

 

Online Games for Algebra
Algebra 1 (McDougal Littell)
http://www.classzone.com/books/algebra_1/index.cfm
Algebra Four
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/AlgebraFour/
Interactive Algebra Games
http://www.gamequarium.com/algebra.htm
Operation Order (Three Levels)
http://www.funbrain.com/algebra/index.html
Integer Games
http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/math-integ.html