Fall and Halloween Activities for the Middle School Math Classroom

Middle school math can be tough for some students.   Teachers work so hard to make their classroom inviting, to keep students engaged, and to help students succeed.   But sometimes math teachers just need a little bit of extra help to make students excited about learning math.

Enter:  Fall and Halloween Activities for Middle School Math

Here's a round up of activities on lots of different topics that you might teach in the Fall, plus a bonus bulletin board at the end.

Fall / Autumn Riddle Activities

Sometimes a simple riddle to go along with math practice can engage students more than usual.  Even if the joke is cringy, they'll have something to talk about related to their math work.

Here are some Fall Riddle Activities you can try:

5th and 6th Grade - Decimal Operations

6th and 7th Grade - Percent of a Number

6th and 7th Grade - One Step Equations

7th and 8th Grade - Two Step Equations

Here are other Fall Activities you can try that are different from the riddles:

6th Grade - Unit Rates

7th Grade - Circumference and Area of Circles

8th Grade - Cube Roots Secret Message

8th Grade - Systems of Equations

Halloween Pixel Art Activities

Once October rolls around, everyone starts getting excited for Halloween.  So why not celebrate spooky things all month?

Here are some Halloween Math activities you can try:

6th Grade - Order of Operations

7th Grade - Integer Operations

8th Grade - Pythagorean Theorem

Fall into Math Bulletin Board

Do you need to decorate a bulletin board in your room or in the hallway near your room?   I've got the perfect Fall themed bulletin board for you that will show your students what topics they are learning about for the year.

Here is what the Fall into Math Bulletin Board looks like in my classroom:

It's hard to tell from the picture, but the leaves say different math terms, like ALGEBRA and EQUATIONS.   This bulletin board works for a variety of grade levels.  Check out the bulletin board here.

Final Thoughts 

Fall is a special time of the year and celebrating it in the math classroom with students can make math extra engaging.  Teachers can use all of the help we can get to keep students excited about math, so why not incorporate a little bit of seasonal fun?