Looking for fun math worksheets high school students will love? These are the tested and BEST fun ready to print math worksheets you can instantly use to improve student learning while keeping your students engaged.
Using engaging fun math worksheets high school students will enjoy will instantly break up the monotony of the regular math routine in the classroom. If you’re like me and are passionate about teaching math, then you want your students to be fully engaged in practicing their math skills during the entire class period. In this post, I am giving you the top fun math worksheets high school students and teachers will both love.
You are going to learn about using fun math worksheets for high school algebra, fun math review worksheets, fun holiday math worksheets, coloring math worksheets and more!
After learning about all these fun math worksheets, you can go on to create your own or purchase ready-to-use no prep resources that you can download and use in your classroom right away for about the price of a coffee. Your students will love the “break” from traditional learning while still practicing fundamental math skills.
This post is all about the best fun math worksheets high school students will learn from and enjoy.
Best Fun Math Worksheets High School
Fun Math Worksheets for High School Algebra
The amount of students that fail algebra every year is insane. Even those who end up passing Algebra 1 have very weak skills that will then create problems for them when they take Geometry, Algebra 2, Pre-Calculus and beyond. Algebra 1 is when most students get overwhelmed and give up on math, which in turn can even affect whether or not they earn their high school diploma.
In this article from The Hechinger Report, “Students who fail algebra I are far less likely to graduate than others. A 2016 study by the American Institutes for Research noted that about a third of Chicago’s public high school students fail one or both semesters of algebra I. Of those who failed both semesters in 2005-06, only 15 percent graduated in four years. A 2008 study in Los Angeles public schools found that those who didn’t pass algebra by ninth grade were half as likely to graduate as those who did.”
From being a high school teacher for over two decades, I can attest that Algebra is where most students go from being good at math and liking it, to absolutely hating math and failing. So when lesson planning, it is important to change the activities in the classroom to maintain student’s interest. And while this is true of any classroom, it is particularly true in a math classroom where most students are already behind in their math skills and already have an apathy towards the subject.
This is where Fun Math Worksheets come in. Teachers should give their students worksheets that are stimulating, challenging and fun to practice core mathematical skills that they need to learn.
One of the types of worksheets I like to give my students are mazes. Cool math maze games are a way to pair up students to work together on solving math problems that will get closer to the end of the maze. This activity should typically take about 30 minutes of class time. If it’s too long, students will get bored. If it’s too short, it might not be as challenging or thorough.
Take this slopes of parallel and perpendicular lines maze freebie. You can go to my TpT store and download the maze for FREE. It is a PDF worksheet that prints on just one single side of a regular 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. Students can also open it on their iPads or tablet and interact with it digitally. Students get to practice finding the slope of parallel and perpendicular lines in a fun non-threatening way. It’s easy for teachers to grade (the answer key is included) since there’s one correct way through the maze. It’s fun, engaging, and will get your students to practice such an essential Algebraic skill like slope. You can use this even in a Geometry, Algebra 2 or any other class that covers slope (even middle school students can use it). Use it for a homework assignment, bell ringer, or even leave it as an activity the students can do with a substitute. Use it for tutoring students one-on-one or as a KWL activity.
Slopes of Parallel & Perpendicular Lines Maze FREEBIE
These are some of the teacher reviews:
“I loved this maze!! A great engaging way to have students practice with parallel and perpendicular slopes after a lesson. They love competing to finish first!”
“I’m new to the amazingness of mazes but my students loved them. They are still learning and applying what they know but in a fun way, and then if they wanted to color their maze they could (most did).”
“This was a great challenge for my high-ability 6th graders.”
“Great check in activity about slopes of perpendicular & parallel lines. My Algebra kids loved it, thank you!”
Fun Math Review Worksheets
Another time that you’d want to implement fun math worksheets is at the end of a unit or lesson. By this time students have already taken down notes, gone through examples, and maybe even have done homework. That next day when they come in, break up the monotony by giving them fun math review worksheets.
Take this fun review worksheet on permutations and combinations. Use this Permutations and Combinations Assignment as an engaging review to your unit on probability, statistics, or fundamental counting principle.
With so much excitement over lottery jackpots, it’s a great opportunity to get your students talking about math in this fun Permutations and Combinations Assignment. Students will have to use their electronic devices (tablets, cellphones or computers) to research facts related to the Powerball. They will also have to determine the total number of possibilities for choosing the winning numbers through combinations.
When I did this with my dual enrollment algebra students (mostly juniors and seniors) I couldn’t believe how many of them had never heard of a factorial, permutation, or combination. They thought I put the exclamation mark next to the numbers because I was being cute! I was in disbelief! So I updated this Permutations and Combinations Assignment to include a little bit of background on the Fundamental Counting Principle and factorials.
Students LOVE talking about money and in this assignment there’s even a writing activity asking them, “If you were to win the lottery: would you opt for a one time lump sum payment or would you choose the 30 payments to be paid over the next 30 years? Why? What would you do with your winnings? Give a detailed answer and calculate how much these things would cost.” It’s a great way to combine math and writing in the classroom and it keeps them motivated to see how the concepts they’ve learned in class can be applied to a real-world situation.
Permutations and Combinations Assignment
These are some of the teacher reviews:
“Used after introducing and practicing with combinations and permutations. I chose this assignment because it is so much more relevant and interesting than socks in a drawer or marbles in a bag. Those are fine for introducing the concepts, but I wanted something that was more real-world. My Alternative Ed Integrated Math students found it interesting and engaging. They were surprised at some of the answers! We all enjoyed the writing portion as well.”
“Great resources for my stats class! They were super interested! And shocked!”
“My AP Statistics students love and relate to anything with money – great real world activity.”
“This was perfect for a day that I was unexpectedly absent. Thank you!”
Fun Holiday Math Worksheets
Another time when you can infuse fun math worksheets is around the holidays. Students are REALLY checked out by then and getting them to learn something right before Thanksgiving break, winter break or spring break is nearly impossible. Using fun holiday math worksheets are the best way to get them to still practice those mathematical concepts in a fun way that disguises that they’re even learning! Here are some of my favorite holiday assignments:
Midpoint and Distance Formula
Students will review finding the distance, midpoint, and slope of points. They will have to plot the points on a coordinate plane. They also practice using the Pythagorean Theorem and reflecting a triangle across the x-axis. Lastly, they practice writing linear equations in point-slope, slope-intercept, and standard form. This is great practice for a Geometry or Algebra class.
Teacher Reviews:
“My students enjoyed doing these activities around the holidays. They were able to continue doing math in a fun way!”
“I love this!!! I will totally use it in my Christmas break packet!”
Geometry Thanksgiving Activity
Put students into small groups of 3 or 4 to work together. Distribute one of each sheet (2 turkeys and one unscramble vocabulary terms). Students are to work together on finding the solutions to the problems on each turkey. Then have students color the turkeys and cut them out. You can easily punch a hole and add string to one of the feathers and display them around your classroom.
I’ve also included a blank turkey that you can use any way you choose. Here are some suggestions:
– In an honors class, have students create questions to then exchange with their partner and solve.
– Have students reflect on their data from district or school assessments and write down the benchmarks/standards that they need most help with.
– Give students vocabulary terms that they need to define and illustrate.
– Give students more review problems knowing exactly what their strengths and weaknesses are.
Teacher Reviews:
“Great product! Engaging and fun for students!”
“My students loved this!”
***Also available for Algebra 1 and Algebra 2.
These are perfect activities to get your students to practice the math skills they’ve seen over the fall in a fun small group setting with their classmates.
Top-Selling Math Worksheets
Here are some quick, fun worksheets that are top-sellers in my TpT store. Again, these are worksheets that bring math to life for the students. It connects real-world situations to the mathematics they are learning.
Double Bar Graph, Averages, and Data Analysis: Average Rainfall Activity
Teacher Reviews:
“Practical, relevant, and could even be used as assessment.”
“Great activity linking math to the real world.”
Cinco de Mayo Math: Fractions and Percents grades 6-12
What is it about fractions and percents that brings out the “Nooo…” and “ugh” of students? This unit is meant as a review of working with fractions and percents in a real world setting. I find that every student at every level could always use more practice!
These Cinco de Mayo fun math worksheets can be done at any time throughout the year. However, they were designed around the theme of Cinco de Mayo and would best be used around the first week of May. You can choose to have the students work independently or in pairs. I have found that pairs and small groups of 3 work best with these activities. I have used them even with my IB juniors who can always use a review of these concepts regardless of the time of the year. You may choose to split up all four activities to do at different times of the year or do them all as one unit.
Teacher Reviews:
“Great packet full of real life applications of percents, fractions and decimals!”
So there you have it! Those were some of the best fun math worksheets high school students will enjoy. You can also use these for middle school depending on the level of the student. With so many students saying that they “hate” math and with the data to support how many students fail Algebra 1, it is important to keep students interested and engaged in mathematics. I have found that the best activities are those that connect the mathematics to the real world.
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