8th Grade Back to School Math Activities – Get to Know You – Review – PRINT

Description

Want to make the most of the first week of school? This set of back to school math activities & games is perfect for 8th grade & will make the first days FUN.

In the first week of school, you likely want to get to know your students and ease them back into math learning. With this bundle of resources, you can learn more about students, their feelings about math & review skills from the previous year.

All the math activities in this resource focus on 7th grade math standards. This will allow your students to review a bit before jumping into grade level content, while giving you a simple assessment to see what they remember.

Plus, with the wide variety of activities and options, you are sure to find enough to fill the first few days with activities your students will enjoy.

Types of Activities Included:

• Math Thoughts: Get to know students’ thoughts and attitudes about math so you can work to transform their math mindsets
• Math About Me Challenge: Easily adaptable for all ages, this activity allows students to create numeric expressions to represent different things about themselves–a great way to practice math skills while learning more about each other
• Back to School Code Breakers: Students review prior skills as they decode the numbers in order to solve each math problem
• Back to School Maze Challenges: Students review key math concepts from the year before as they solve problems to find their way through the maze
• Back to School Silly Riddles: Students discover the answer to the silly back-to-school themed riddle as they solve the math problems
• Back to School Logic Puzzles: Encourage logical & algebraic reasoning with print-and-go puzzles

7th Grade Math Skills Covered for Review/Assessment:

• Order of operations with exponents
• Integer operations
• Percent problems
• Simplify algebraic expressions
• Unit rate
• Solve two-step equations

Plus, you’ll get to know students with fun “mathy” activities & encourage problem solving & algebraic thinking with back-to-school themed logic puzzles!

Here’s exactly what’s included in the download:

• Math Thoughts activity
• Math About Me-Writing Expressions Challenge
• 2 Code Breaker Pages
• 3 Maze Challenges
• 3 Riddles Pages
• 2 Logic Puzzles
• Teaching Tips/Directions
• Answer Key for All Activity Pages

Please Note: This product is a printable, downloadable pdf file. No physical product will be shipped to you. In addition, this resource is for personal use in the home or classroom only. You may not share, distribute, alter or post this resource online in any way. Thank you for your honesty!