Grade 8 Math Projects

Paper models of platonic solids

This is a fun foldable that will teach your students about 3D shapes (sphere, pyramid, cube, cone, rectangular prism and cylinder). In each shape your students will count edges, vertices and sides. It also includes 8 reference posters and 10 different worksheets that can be used to review the concepts. Everything is included in English and Spanish (Las formas en 3-D). Page count does not include the Spanish version. UPDATED: august 2013 Each student will need at least 3 pages for the...

Quadrilaterals: These quadrilaterals cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the different types of quadrilaterals. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. These cootie catchers contain the following quadrilaterals: Trapezium, Trapezoid, Isosceles Trapezoid, Parallelogram, Kite, Rhombus, Rectangle, Square A version is also included in which students may add their own definitions for each quadrilateral Important: If you enjoyed this product...

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Straws and string make this octahedron.

Templates to build various 3D shapes. Just cut and fold. . . (Free)

Paper model octahedron. The octahedron is one of the 5 Platonic Solids (convex regular polyhedra). The model is made of 8 equilateral triangular faces. Nets (templates) and pictures of the paper octahedron.

Paper Models of Polyhedra Polyhedra are beautiful 3-D geometrical figures that have fascinated philosophers, mathematicians and artists for millennia. On this site are a few hundred paper models available for free. http://www.korthalsaltes.com/

Math centers: introduction to polyhedra - nets, prisms vs. pyramids, vertices, edges, and faces

One of our math standards has students finding surface area using the net of rectangular prisms. I started out by using this poster to introduce the topic, which is a part of my Volume and Surface Area Poster and Graphic Organizer set. The poster shows that each rectangular prism has 3 pairs of sides where the pairs are congruent to each other. When they took notes in their interactive foldable graphic organizers. After putting the information into the interactive foldable graphic...

We just wrapped up our unit on finding the surface area and volume of prisms. At our school we break up surface area and volume into 3 units (prisms, pyramids, and then cones/cylinders spheres). I have NO idea why we do this but, I definitely want to change it up next year and make it as one big unit. Day 1: Students taped down the Prisms formula chart to the left of their flip-book. It is extremely important to mirror how to set up the flip-book with your students because if not, there will...