Math Projects for Middle School

This is a fun activity that will help you see how well your teens understand solving equations with variables on each side. It may also teach you something new about your kids.

To complete this project, students will need to come up with a few questions about themselves and write the answers in the form of an equation.

For example, how many Marvel movies have I seen or how many countries are on my bucket list?

It's a great way to assess your teen's math skills.

Middle school students will use a ton of real life math to design the layout of their own theme park.

Through the calculation of the area and perimeter of rides and other sections, students will draw their theme park onto graph paper or as a digital version.

After they finish designing their park, you can have them figure out some costs involved as well.

This is one of the fun math activities your older kids will love!

Tessellations are a continuous pattern where one or more shapes get repeated in a way that there are no gaps. They fit perfectly together like a jigsaw puzzle.

With this project, older kids will design their original shapes and then put them together into a creative tessellation art project.

It's a fun way to combine math and art. Middle schoolers can make theirs as simple or complex as they'd like.

This is a fun project that will work on real math skills. Teens will choose a vacation destination and put together a complete travel plan.

They'll need to research accommodations and airfare as well as create both a daily and overall budget for the trip.

What a great learning experience!

This is a great project that will help tweens understand ratios and unit rate while also teaching them how to be savvy consumers.

Middle school kids will choose items from the grocery store to compare to see which one is the best buy based on its unit rate.

They'll have to use math to divide the ratio terms in order to break each price down to a common price per unit.

Kids will get to work on their graphing skills with this interactive activity.

There's been a virus outbreak and students will need to use the data and maps they're given to determine things like the movement of the virus and who is likely to become a zombie because of infection.

This is a great way for older kids to work on things like mean, mode, frequency tables, intersection points, and data analysis.

Combine the popular game of Minecraft with your math classes.

As kids explore the virtual world of Minecraft, they can use their math knowledge to solve problems and overcome challenges.

With this project, they'll build their own gardens using decimals and fractions.

After designing a grid using graph paper, they'll go into Minecraft to bring their decimal gardens to life.

This cupcake shop project is an awesome way for tweens to work on a wide variety of essential skills within different math subject areas.

Through the process of setting up their own cupcake store, they'll strengthen their knowledge of fraction and decimal operations, as well as work on their ability to write and solve inequalities and equations.

And homeschoolers can move this project-based learning into the kitchen and bake their cupcake creations together. They'll think this is the best math lesson ever!