Monster Math Rules!

So, throughout this whole internship experience, I've been coming up with all these great ideas.  Only to find out that they weren't great at all.  I get super excited about some lesson I've designed, thinking the kids will love it.  And then, they hate it.  Well, not this time!  I created an activity that required students to add and multiply decimals.  They had to purchase different body parts and put them together to create the scariest possible monster.  Each body part cost a different amount and their complete monster had to have a total price tag of between $10 and $12.  The students loved it!  I got some really awesome, elaborate monsters.  Although, none of them were too scary.  I only did the activity with the algebra class because the other classes had only been working on multiplying and dividing decimals, not adding.  But, I let the other classes judge the contest.  Finally, success!!!