High School Activities
In high school, students are juggling math, language arts, and science on top of test prep and college applications! Want to help? We've got games and activities to give your teen a leg up, as well as helpful cheat sheets to prepare for tests and the college application process.
Take the Quadratic Formula Learning Styles Quiz
One of the most important formulas in high school mathematics is the quadratic formula. Here's a fun quiz that your teen can take to determine her learning style in order to figure out the best way to memorize this formula.
Reading The Crucible
Here's a teen-friendly refresher course in the plot of the play The Crucible, as well as SAT vocabulary your teen can use to describe what happens for themselves.
Practice Brownie Perimeters
On the SAT, your student may be asked to find the maximum area of a rectangle with a given perimeter. Here's a practice activity that will get your teen's attention as soon as he walks in the door and smells the brownies baking in the oven.
Solve Toothpick Puzzles!
Looking for a way to engage your teen while getting some spatial reasoning skills into the mix? Here are some fun toothpick puzzles that are easy to set up at the dinner table with nothing more than a few toothpicks and a coin.
Get Halloween Math Practice with Candy Calories
Have you ever wondered which Halloween candy has the most calories per gram? By tracking nutritional information from candy wrappers, your teen can use statistics to find which treats offer the fewest tricks.
Reading The Odyssey
Here's a teen-friendly refresher course in the plot of the epic poem The Odyssey, as well as SAT vocabulary your teen can use to describe what happens for themselves.
A Crash Course in the College Admissions Essay
Even for expert writers, this essential part of the college application process can be excruciating. Here's an engaging writing activity that will get your teen ready to tackle the task!
SAT Espionage: Cracking the Test-Makers' Code
The SAT likes to test students' nerves by replacing numbers with letters. Here's a game that will help your student discover that cracking the code is a lot easier than it looks.
Reading the Grapes of Wrath
Here's a teen-friendly refresher course in the plot of The Grapes of Wrath, as well as SAT vocabulary your teen can use to describe what happens for his or herself.
Go on a Geometry Scavenger Hunt
Here's a fun way to help your teen make important connections between geometry in school and geometry in real life, and cross over into the arts at the same time.
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