Bake a Rosh Hashanah Honey Cake
Did you know part of ringing in the New Year in Jewish culture includes eating honey treats? Its sweetness symbolizes the wish for a happy, sweet life in the upcoming New Year!
Explore Symmetry: Draw the Other Half
Get your middle schooler to explore artistic symmetry in this activity that has her practicing art and math measurements by drawing the other half of a given face.
Play Graphing Battleship
Practice plotting points on a graph can be fun for your child when learning is wrapped up in a game. This one will help your child practice the concept of ordered pairs.
Be an Estimation Sensation
Great estimators are made, not born. The more practice your child gets with making estimations about the world around her, the better she'll be when it comes time to keep her math calculations in the right ballpark. Here's an activity to make your child an estimation master.
Impossible Heights: Calculate and Measure with Your Shadow!
This math-inspired activity encourages your middleschooler to get outdoors and explore the movement of the sun. With just a tape measure and her shadow, your child will learn about proportion and how it can be the key to measuring impossible heights.
Bake Pumpkin Cookies
Anytime is the perfect time to whip up a batch of fluffy pumpkin cookies. Your child will hone her culinary skills while creating a savory cookie that packs a healthy punch!
Set Up Shop with Algebra
Using items around your house, create a "store" and set up expressions to represent the cost of the items. It takes just a few minutes to set up, but this activity will have lasting effects.
Be a Covert Code Breaker!
Here's your child's chance to work on her code breaking and writing skills while covertly developing her analytical thinking skills, too!
The Golden Mean: Fibonacci and the Golden Ratio
Explore the possibilities of math within the natural world and expand your mental horizons by following in the footsteps of some great thinkers of the past! Your child will not only put her mental powers to the test with this activity, but she'll enjoy and amaze herself in the process!
Tic-Tac-Toe Equations & Inequalities
Algebra is an important part of every middle school student's math work. Try a new approach to working with variables and equations as you play these Tic-Tac-Toe games. Practice is essential in order to master any skill, and this activity is a fun way to go about it!
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