A money management project teaches valuable lessons that transfer to real life and provide practical application. Split the classroom into small groups. The teacher assigns each small group a fictional amount of money, such as $5,000 or $10,000. The teacher plays the role of the bank and provides options for what the students can do with their money. Concepts such as interest are introduced through advanced algebraic formulas to challenge students and give them exposure to higher levels of algebra with one or more variables.
Stimulate students with an outdoor geometry project. Have teams of students find the areas of various items on the school campus playground. For instance, one team might find the area of the small basketball court while another team finds the area of the hopscotch board. Finding the area of three-dimensional spaces is the advanced version of having students find the area of geometrical shapes on a worksheet.
Students work in teams to design a survey with questions that they ask other students. The surveys can be about anything, from questions about students' favorite television shows to whether the school needs new vending machines. The purpose of the project is for the teams to collect data from the survey answers, which they will analyze to determine statistics.
Students should write down the tasks they participate in every day, estimating the duration of each task and charting the time measurement in a pie chart. Students should also record activities at home, such as soccer practice, eating dinner, doing homework, watching television or brushing teeth. A pie chart is created to represent all activities that are performed throughout the day. The activities that take the longest to complete will have the biggest slices in the pie.