Seasonal Math Activities
Celebrate the season with engaging, standards-aligned activities. Jump into a theme below!
🎄Christmas
4 activities
Celebrate the holidays with this real-world geometry challenge! Students calculate perimeter, area, and surface area as they decorate a roofline with lights, wrap a wall, design a tree skirt, wrap gift boxes, and paint a festive banner. Perfect for practicing 7th-grade geometry with a fun Christmas theme!
The activity revolves around the concept of baking a Christmas cake on a tight budget compared to the cost of purchasing one from a store. Students will be guided through ingredient conversions, cost calculations, and the joy of creating a homemade treat.
A fun, interactive lab where students help Santa plan his global gift delivery. They’ll explore time zones, calculate travel distances, and optimize routes to ensure Santa visits 25 cities within strict delivery windows while conserving reindeer food. Students learn geography, math, and logistics through real-world problem-solving in a festive context!
Step into Santa’s Workshop in this festive, multi-step math lab! Students count gifts, calculate materials, check inventory, manage costs, allocate ELF Time, and run a real-time production simulation. A fun, engaging way to apply 7th-grade math to a realistic holiday scenario!
🎃Halloween
2 activities
In this spooky Halloween-themed activity, students calculate the speed of different Halloween characters using the speed = distance ÷ time formula and determine who’s fastest in the crew. A fun and educational way to reinforce rate and proportional reasoning!
Take your students on a spooky adventure through a haunted mansion filled with math puzzles! This Halloween-themed lab features 5 interactive worksheets covering ratios, fractions, percentages, and more. Completing each worksheet unlocks the next haunted room, leading to the final treasure. Perfect for engaging middle schoolers in a fun and educational Halloween experience!
🦃Thanksgiving
2 activities
In this Thanksgiving-themed math worksheet, students convert ingredient quantities into standard units and calculate the cost of preparing a holiday meal. It’s a real-world activity that strengthens unit conversion, proportional reasoning, and budgeting skills.
In this community kitchen budgeting activity, students convert recipe quantities and calculate the cost of each ingredient needed to prepare a holiday-style meal. Includes turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, carrots, peas, cranberry sauce, and more.
🛍️Black Friday
3 activities
Students build a linear model from a price–demand scatterplot, then use it to predict demand, revenue, and profit at different price points. They analyze curves and determine the price that maximizes profit. A perfect real-world 8th-grade activity for scatterplots, linear modeling, and financial reasoning.
A fun, Black Friday–themed math activity where students calculate discounts, compare store prices, choose the best deals, and create a budget-friendly shopping cart. Perfect for teaching real-world percent applications and smart spending skills.
This interactive lab challenges students to solve real-world math puzzles in a Black Friday shopping scenario. Students calculate discounts, compare deals, and manage budgets to "escape" themed rooms.
🎆New Year
1 activities
Students explore probability through a carnival spinner game. They calculate theoretical probabilities, run a 20-spin simulation, and compare theoretical and experimental probabilities. This worksheet supports randomization — each student gets unique outcomes on every spin.