Bake Sale Business
Students will work towards a goal of raising money through a bake sale.
Question Quest
Students will work with some examples of statistical questions and see what makes them different than questions that are not statistical.
Positives and Negatives of Bungee Jumping
Students will simulate bungee jumping to look at the positive and negative directions the activity naturally creates.
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.
Vacation Getaway
Students get to plan a vacation, but not without using some division to figure out how much each person will owe.
Geometry Everywhere
7.G.3 Students will go on a walk around school and discover what 3-Dimensional shapes are all around and then construct and discover what 2-Dimensional shapes make them up.
Temperature Exploration
7.NS.1,3 The students will compare extreme temperatures in the U.S. and then discovering other extreme temperatures in the world to compare further.
Summer Hangin’
Students will make a summer schedule with set amounts of days between each activities and find out how often they will meet up with friends who do the same activity. Students are then given an amount of 2 or more supplies and instructed to determine the greatest amount of equal “packs” they could make.
Candy Split
Students will use candy to explore what happens when they divide a fraction into even smaller amounts and take a fraction of a fraction.
What Drives You?
Students will determine how many miles their future vehicle will accrue and analyze the cost of certain cars based on initial cost and gas mileage.
Overlapping Interests
7.SP.3 The students will compare two sets of data both visually and statistically to gain insights.
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.