Unit 8 · Culminating Projects
Equations & Inequalities in Action
Two project versions that pull together everything from Unit 8 — writing and solving one-step equations, using inverse operations, and representing inequalities on a number line. Pick one, or run them as differentiated options. Each is self-guided, interactive, and printable.
Choose Your Version
Two Ways to Show Mastery
🔐 Escape Room Architect
Build YOUR own escape room: name it, pick a theme, then write a secret-code equation and solve the built-in combination locks with one-step multiplication and division equations. Check your work by substitution, swap a clue with a partner and solve theirs, and compare your puzzle's difficulty to real escape-room stats. EN/ES help and Level 1/2 options.
Version B · Real-World Investigation🎯 Fundraiser Goal Tracker
Plan YOUR class fundraiser: name the cause, set a real goal and amount raised, and pick an item and price. Solve equations for how much more is needed and how many items to sell, write and graph an inequality for a progress milestone on a number line, compare progress with a classmate, and size up your goal against real-world school fundraiser benchmarks. EN/ES help and Level 1/2 options.
Students Start Here
Pick Your Path
Same math, same rubric. Both versions practice the exact same skills and are graded the same way — choose the story that sounds more fun to you.
Take your time. Plan for two to three class periods. Your work saves automatically, so you can stop and come back.
Stuck on writing? Every response box has a “Need a starter?” helper, and the last step includes a Rate My Work check before you turn it in.
For the Teacher
How to Use These Projects
Standards: 6.AT.8 (substitution to check solutions), 6.AT.8 (using variables to write expressions and equations), 6.AT.8 (solving one-step equations x + p = q and px = q with nonnegative rational solutions). Version B additionally covers 6.AT.9 (writing and graphing inequalities to represent real-world constraints); Version A focuses on equations only (6.AT.8–6.AT.8).
Both versions are parallel. They assess the same skills through different contexts, so you can assign Version A and Version B to different students and grade on the same rubric (built into each project). Great for choice boards, make-up work, or A/B class sections.
Built in: a step-by-step guided wizard, Visual Math Notes vocabulary with an EN/ES toggle and read-aloud, Level 1 / Level 2 differentiation, live calculators with instant substitution verification, a partner comparison step, a real-world benchmark table, save/resume, report export (.txt), a sticky progress bar, scaffolded hints, a checklist, a 4-point rubric, a print button, and SVG diagrams (a lock visual in Version A; a tape diagram and an interactive number line in Version B).
Answer key: Open the teacher answer key for both versions.