5 Fun Halloween Ideas for Middle School Math
Being able to incorporate a holiday into math class is an easy and fun way to engage your students. Today I am giving you an inside look into my Halloween Math Bundle that includes 5 different resources that your middle school students will love and that cover a variety of important math skills.
1. Distributive Property Halloween Riddles
Riddles are such a fun way to practice math skills. The fun riddle questions in this Halloween resource will keep your students engage but they also proved a self-checking opportunity. This set of worksheets includes four different worksheets that practice the distributive property-perfect for differentiating. This is always a top seller during the month of October!
2. Fraction, Decimal, Percent Halloween Math
This resource includes six different worksheets and activities that will have your students practicing finding percentages as well as converting fractions, decimals, and percents. Activities include students finding errors, solve problems to real Halloween facts, analyze Halloween candy and look at data about the most popular costumes by state. These worksheets and activities are perfect to use during your Halloween math class or spread out and use all throughout the month of October.
3. Volume & Surface Area of a Pumpkin Hands On Activity
Grab a few pumpkins from your local grocery store and have your students engage in this fun pumpkin activity that is great for your Halloween math class or any time during the fall season. This activity can be set up as a center, done in small groups, or used as a mini project. Best of all, it gives your students a hands-on opportunity to practice calculating volume and surface area.
4. Simplifying Expressions Candy Corn Worksheets
This resource includes six different worksheets that will have your students practice simplifying expressions. All worksheets have a fun candy corn themed. Skills include finding equivalent expressions, evaluating expressions, simplifying expressions with and without integers. These worksheets are great for work with a substitute or to use as homework.
5. Order of Operations Halloween Riddles
Order of Operations is something all middle school students cannot get enough of! Included in this Halloween worksheet set are four sets of fun order of operations riddles, perfect for differentiating. These worksheets are the newest resource to this bundle an will sure to make your students smile as they discover the answer to each riddle!
Grab one of the above resources or save 30% when you purchase the bundle. Your students will love the Halloween themes as they practice math this October.
