Math Mystery Crime Case
7.RP.1,2 Students will love to play the role of the detective in this lesson as they use their rates/slope/linear equations skills to solve the mystery of who the thief is.
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The Business of Math
7.EE.1,2 The students will be creating a business that sells a product they create and design. They will then use math to price and predict sales of their products.
We Built This City
Students will design a city layout on their graph paper. They will also be responsible for giving a “tour” of their city. Through these two activities, students will work on locating and reading coordinate pairs, as well as determining the distance between points.
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