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Wondering how to engage your 6th grade math students this Halloween? Here’s four of my favorite ways to celebrate Halloween in math class, including applied math projects, math-meets-art activities — and a free school-wide trick-or-treating that you can throw together in just a few hours.
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1. Trick-or-Treating at School
This is a great activity for your students to do on Halloween day, or the Friday before. It's a great incentive for the class (i.e. if you all finish this activity you can trick-or-treat) or a fun way to build culture through a school-wide event.
To do this, team up with a few other teachers to give out candy to students while trick-or-treating. Print out a stamp card for your students, with notes on which teachers they can go to, and send them on their way to the other teachers. Teachers can stamp or sign the cards as they give out candy to students.
I've made a free trick-or-treating stamp card for you to use, with instructions on how to run your school-wide trick-or-treat and stamp cards designed for 3, 4, 5, or 6 classrooms:
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Trick-or-Treat Candy Stamp Card
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2. Stop a Zombie Invasion
Looking for a fun way to practice graphing and coordinate planes with your students? Try this exciting, print-and-go activity, students help the CDC stop an outbreak of a zombie virus by plotting outbreak locations, analyzing where to place a laboratory and hospital, and computing the distance between infected individuals.
Coordinate Plane Graphing & Distance Math Activity | Plotting Points, Quadrants
$3.99
3. Get Artistic with Doodle Math
Doodle Math is a great way to get your students’ creative juices flowing, as well as practicing their math skills.
It’s a fresh twist on color-by-number or color-by-code, with more creative freedom on the resulting image. Simply print out a Doodle Math worksheet relevant to the topic that you’re covering in class. Your students will solve problems and unlock doodle patterns that they can doodle in the color of their choice.
Here’s a few that are perfect for 6th grade:
Adding and Subtracting Decimals Doodle & Color by Number
$3.00
Multiplying Decimals Doodle & Color by Number | Word Problems
$3.25
Evaluating Expressions Doodle & Color by Number | Order of Operations, PEMDAS
$1.99
You can find more in my Fall-Halloween-Thanksgiving section.
4. Try Google Sheets Pixel Art
This activity is a fun way to help students practice independently while they create a spooky masterpiece.
You can copy a Google Sheet for each of your students and have them copy it. Students solve the problems and incrementally unlock a Halloween-themed picture. It’s great because it auto-grades, so students get instant feedback on what problems they’re getting right and wrong, so that they can improve.
I’ve made a few that you can use right away:
Ratios and Unit Rates Digital Pixel Art BUNDLE | Equivalent Ratios
$5.99
Percents & Money Digital Pixel Art BUNDLE | Simple Interest, Tips, Tax
$14.96
Area and Perimeter of Composite Figures Digital Pixel Art
$3.99
One-Step Equations Digital Pixel Art
$3.99
Evaluating Expressions Digital Pixel Art BUNDLE | Numerical & Algebraic
$5.99
You can find more in my Fall-Halloween-Thanksgiving section.
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