ncrease STEM proficiency with fun lab activities that encourage critical thinking and communication. STEM Labs for Middle Grades provides more than 50 integrated labs to cultivate student interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Designed by leading educators, these activities require students to solve real-world problems using scientific inquiry, content knowledge, creativity, and teamwork!

Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing engaging supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, this product line covers a range of subjects including math, science, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character.

Challenge capable students while also helping those who need extra Pre-Algebra practice.

Topics in this middle school math book include these fundamental algebra skills:

• integers
• fractions and mixed numbers
• decimals and estimation
• graphing
• ratios
• percents
• rational numbers
• square roots

This comprehensive resource supports NCTM standards and also includes practice pages, assessment tests, reproducible grid paper, and an answer key.

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• Answer Key

Grades 5–8+ • 80 pages Compares 13 nations and governments with detailed information about each country, discussions of current issues, and more.

Time-Saving interactive notebook templates that allow students to show what they know!

Interactive Notebooks: Math for eighth grade is a fun way to teach and reinforce effective note taking for students. Students become a part of the learning process with activities about rational numbers, multistep equations, functions, the Pythagorean theorem, scatter plots, and more!

This book is an essential resource that will guide you through setting up, creating, and maintaining interactive notebooks for skill retention in the classroom. High-interest and hands-on, interactive notebooks effectively engage students in learning new concepts. Students are encouraged to personalize interactive notebooks to fit their specific learning needs by creating fun, colorful pages for each topic. With this note-taking process, students will learn organization, color coding, summarizing, and other important skills while creating personalized portfolios of their individual learning that they can reference throughout the year.

Spanning grades kindergarten to grade 8, the Interactive Notebooks series focuses on grade-specific math, language arts, or science skills. Aligned to meet current state standards, every 96-page book in this series offers lesson plans to keep the process focused. Reproducibles are included to create notebook pages on a variety of topics, making this series a fun, one-of-a-kind learning experience.

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• Reproducible Rights