Keep your students engaged with these fun and creative math activities.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
Or is it the most chaotic time of the year? You’re ready for winter break, your students are really ready for winter break, and there’s not enough time in the day to get your planning, prepping, and everything else done.
I’ve been there, and if 16 years of excited-for-break students taught me anything, it’s that I always need a fun, low-prep activity in my back pocket.
Keep reading for seven winter math worksheets and activities that will keep your students engaged in math exploration while they’re on the edge of their seats for break.
Winter math worksheets for middle school
Check out these winter math activities for 6th-8th grade. From ski trips to dreidels to holiday lights, your students will love exploring seasonal real-world math applications!
It’s class ski trip time! And there are a lot of logistics to figure out.
In this activity, students are given specific details about a class ski trip. From this information, they need to determine the number of students going on the trip, how much each student paid, and other logistics about the trip.
The temperature changed throughout the day in Rapid City, South Dakota, on January 22, 1943. In this activity, students will create a graph of the temperatures, describe the pattern, and explain why this is an "interesting" day.
The folks at teAchnology have designed this activity that teaches probability using dreidels, and it’s perfect for your middle school students.
Use Pythgoras’s famous theorem to figure how many festive lights to use!
In this activity, students need to determine how many feet of lighting will be needed to decorate a house. Afterwards, you can have students list other objects they would like to decorate and calculate how many lights they will need.
Winter math worksheets for high school
These winter math activities for Algebra I and beyond are sure to get your students thinking about real-life math applications! Watch as their brains start churning over problems involving temperature, budgeting, and snowflake fractals.
In this activity, students are given a data set for the temperatures in Washington, D.C. since 8 AM on a winter day. From the provided table, they will create a scatter plot of the data; identify increasing, decreasing, and constant associations; determine an equation for the line of best fit for each section of the scatter plot; and identify the domain for which each equation is the trend line.
The Let It Snow Resort has two winter pricing specials. Both specials include meals and overnight accommodations, but is one deal better than the other? Students will create and use a system of equations to compare and draw conclusions about the specials and will end the activity by writing about their discoveries.
This fascinating activity introduces students to the Koch snowflake: one of the earliest fractals to be described. It’s created by drawing an equilateral triangle, then dividing each side into thirds to create new equilateral triangles in a never-ending pattern.
More low-prep math worksheets
We know you need low-prep, engaging math activities all year long, so we've got you covered! Check out the link below to download our Make Math Connect activity packs, filled with activities that focus on the connection of number lines from kindergarten through Algebra II.
Before joining Carnegie Learning's marketing team in 2022, Karen spent 16 years teaching mathematics and social studies in Ohio classrooms. She has a passion for inclusive education and believes that all learners can be meaningfully included in academic settings from day one. As a former math and special education teacher, she is excited to provide educators with the latest in best-practices content so that they can set all students on the path to becoming confident "math people."
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