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Bring holiday excitement into your middle school math lessons with these fun, festive, and skill-focused Christmas math activities! Perfect for grades 6–8, these resources combine seasonal creativity with rigorous math practice — ideal for keeping students engaged before winter break.
🧮 Converting Fractions to Decimals: Christmas Color by Number
This Seventh Grade Converting Fractions to Decimals Activity turns math review into holiday fun! Students convert fractions to decimals and use their answers to reveal a colorful Santa on his sleigh. It’s a calm, hands-on activity to reinforce key skills before the holidays. Includes a full answer key for quick grading!
🎁 Christmas Math Word Problems (6th Grade)
Challenge your students’ reasoning and problem-solving skills with these real-world, Christmas-themed multistep word problems. Each worksheet comes with varying difficulty levels to meet diverse learners’ needs — and it’s available in both color and black-and-white versions to help save ink! Great for group work, stations, or independent review.
🎨 Multi-Step Equations Christmas Color by Number
Give your students a break from routine worksheets with this color-by-equation activity! Learners solve multi-step equations, then match their answers to color codes to reveal a festive design. A fun, low-prep way to keep math skills sharp during December.
🕵️♀️ Mystery of the Secret Santa: Operations with Fractions (6th–8th Grade)
Your students become detectives in this holiday-themed fractions mystery! Using operations with fractions and comparison skills, they’ll solve clues to uncover the Secret Santa. Perfect for small group collaboration or independent learning — and includes an answer key for easy teacher use.
🦌 Reindeer Coordinate Graphing Mystery
Turn graphing practice into a festive challenge! Students plot and connect coordinate points to reveal a hidden reindeer design. This engaging activity reinforces coordinate plane skills while keeping the classroom merry and bright. Great for early finishers or a pre-break review.
🎄 All activities are teacher-created, time-saving, and middle school–friendly, designed to make math review fun, festive, and educational. Use them for centers, bell ringers, partner work, or independent practice during December!
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