Low-Prep Winter Math Worksheets
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.
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!
Hit the Slopes! (6th grade)
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.
An Interesting Day in South Dakota (6th grade)
In this activity, students will create a graph of the temperatures, describe the pattern, and explain why this is an “interesting” day.
What Are the Chances? (6th-8th grade)
The folks at teachnology have designed this activity that teaches probability using dreidels, and it’s perfect for your middle school students.
What Would Pythagoras Do? (8th grade)
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.
Winter Temps to Analyze Line of Best Fit (Algebra I)
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.
Let It Snow Resort: Linear Combinations (Algebra I and up)
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.
The Koch Snowflake (Algebra II)
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.
This content originally appeared on Carnegie Learning’s blog.
