7th Grade Applied Math Activities

Do your students ever wonder when they will use their math in their real life? Well this project is for you! Party Planning is a project based math activity with real life scenarios. Students will use their knowledge of the 6th grade math core and prior math concepts to plan their own party. Some of the skills used in this activity are least common multiple, greatest common factor, percentages, unit fractions, multiplication, and more. Check out the preview to see more.

This project is perfect for the end of 6th grade for the students to put into practice what they learned all year in math. Party Planning has an array of different math exercises. It seamlessly integrates the 6th grade math curriculum with real-world scenarios, fostering a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts while igniting creativity. It could also be a great activity for the beginning of 7th grade math to refresh their memory of the skills they learned and will grow upon that year.

Join the Party Planning committee and:

• Use area to choose a venue
• Budget for the party food & buy the correct serving sizes based off their party size utilizing multiplication of decimals
• Practice unit price and percentages to calculate decorations for the party
• Apply their knowledge of greatest common factor and least common multiples to pick party favors for the guests
• Use absolute values to read and compare party game scores
• Interpret data and create their own box & whisker plots using mean, median, mode, quartiles, and extremes
• An optional final project with rubric presenting their party data to the principal

What exactly do you get?

• A brief instruction for the teacher to understand the project.
• A brief instruction for the student to understand their task
• A venue page
• Menu & budgeting (differentiated for your students needs)
• Party Decorations, Party Games, Party Favors, and Data Math Pages
• Rubric for Student to Create a presentation of their findings
• Answer keys for math pages

This project can be tailored to your student. You can give each student a different number of class size or you can have two students work together to find their answers. There are a lot of possibilities with this project and I hope you can find what works for you. This project includes 35 pages with answer keys. 26 of those pages are the project pages.

With this engaging activity & real world relevance, Party Planning turns your class into an immersive adventure where students get to become party planners and mathematicians.

What has been said about this product?

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐From Melissa Ball saying, "I used it this year as a year end review and liked it much better than just boring review like I did the year before. My students loved seeing the real world application of the math we had learned all year."

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This is a real-life lesson that encourages students to evaluate taxable income based on one's income and the marginal tax bracket. Kids will love this and have a great time discussing the occupations and how much each is taxed. This lesson does not go as far as to discuss personal deductions and standard deductions, which would lower your taxable income. That is for another day. This is a simple introduction to how Federal taxes are collected.

Focuses on taxable Income, understanding taxes, calculating taxes

Easel Activity Included

OBJECTIVE

• The learner will be able to calculate taxable income based on tax brackets based on percentages.
• The learner will understand the purpose of taxation and the difference between state and federal tax.

MATERIALS

• Occupation Game Cards (1 set of 24 per group) and
• Chart (1 per student)
• Game Instructions

PREPARATION

o Set up the classroom desks or tables so that students are sitting in groups of two or three.

INTRODUCTION: (20 minutes)

Ask students:

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GAME INSTRUCTIONS

Divide students into groups of two or three. Each group will receive a set of Occupation Game Cards. It is suggested that you laminate the cards, cut them, and place them in zip-lock bags so they can be used every year.

Students will be directed to place all cards face down. Distribute the Marginal Tax Bracket Chart.

Students within the group will take turns turning over an Occupation Game Card. Each will write the occupation, taxable income, and income tax percent using the Marginal Tax Bracket Chart provided on each student’s activity sheet (see below). Students will work together to calculate the income tax and lifetime total.

Alternative: you may have students compete against those within their team as another way to play, rather than having one group compete against the other groups in the class. Whatever works best for your students and classroom environment is the best route to take.

The goal is to reach a lifetime total of 100,000 taxable incomes to win. This will require multiple games, or to make it more challenging, raise the Lifetime taxable income goal to 150,000 or 200,000, which will make the game run longer.

Students can create charts on notebook paper for additional games.

Once they reach the lifetime goal, they win that round. Then have them play again.

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Empower learners to handle money transactions confidently with our comprehensive ABA program focused on independent money skills. This digital download is ideal for educators, therapists, and parents seeking to teach essential skills for counting money, determining totals, and calculating change. The program includes a detailed instruction sheet and a vending machine visual to make learning engaging and practical.

What's Included:

1. Program Instruction Sheet: A step-by-step guide on how to implement the independent money skills program. This sheet includes detailed instructions, goals, and strategies to ensure effective teaching and learning.
2. Vending Machine Visual: A colorful and interactive visual aid designed to simulate real-life purchasing scenarios. Learners can practice selecting items, counting money, and determining the total cost, enhancing their understanding through hands-on experience.

Key Features:

• Comprehensive Guide: The instruction sheet provides clear and detailed steps for teaching money skills, making it easy for educators and parents to implement the program effectively.
• Interactive Learning: The vending machine visual creates a fun and engaging way for learners to practice money transactions, helping them apply skills in a realistic context.
• Skill Development: Focuses on crucial money skills such as counting coins and bills, calculating the total cost of items, and determining the correct change to receive from the cashier.
• Versatile Use: Suitable for a variety of learning environments, including classrooms, therapy sessions, and home use, providing flexibility for different educational needs.

Equip your learners with the skills they need to handle money transactions independently with our Independent Money Skills ABA Program. Download today to provide a comprehensive, engaging, and practical learning experience!

A wonderful Real-Life Math bundle with lots of practical applications.

These projects and tasks, (with keys), make Data and Statistics come alive. They are tried, tested and improved over many years in my middle school classroom. Students get to think about concepts such as mean, median, range, mode, quartiles and outliers in a real life and practical way. The products include both quantitative and qualitative data and the statistics involved. Both the measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion are covered.

The products can be used

• at the start of the unit on data and statistics
• as an end of unit project
• as an assessment.
• for groupwork

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This game is available in a 5 for 3 bundle. It is a great little twist on a traditional/straight game of Rummy. There are 4 suits of increasing difficulty, with solutions that range between 1 and 13. The twist being that players have to work out the values of x, y, a and b in order to play the game.

The game is easily printed on standard card, and is quickly prepared thanks to easy-cut guides.

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Master Multiplying and Dividing Fractions with Confidence!

Equip your students with the skills they need to succeed in fractions using this comprehensive set of Multiplying and Dividing Fractions with Like and Unlike Denominators Worksheets. This resource breaks down complex concepts into manageable steps, ensuring learners grasp the fundamentals and excel in problem-solving.

What’s Included:

• Targeted Practice: Worksheets focusing on both like and unlike denominators to build a solid foundation in multiplying and dividing fractions.
• Step-by-Step Guidance: Gradually increasing difficulty to support differentiated learning and skill mastery.
• Real-World Word Problems: Engage students with relatable scenarios that apply their knowledge to practical situations.
• Answer Keys: Save time with easy-to-use solutions for quick grading and self-assessment.

Why Teachers Love It:

• Clear and Student-Friendly Layouts: Reduce math anxiety and boost understanding.
• Comprehensive Coverage: Covers essential fraction operations to meet curriculum standards.
• Flexible Use: Perfect for classroom lessons, homework assignments, and intervention groups.

Give your students the tools to conquer fractions and develop lasting math confidence!

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This resource includes:

• 160 Printable Worksheets
• Printable PDF File
• Easel Activity
• Answer Keys

Download now and make fractions a favorite part of math class!

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2 Digit by 2 Digit Multiplication Worksheets Practice: Step Multiplication

3 Digit by 3 Digit Multiplication Practice With and Without Regrouping

Multi-Digit Multiplication and Long Division Math Practice Worksheets

Multi-Digit Long Division Worksheets Practice With and Without Reminders

Triple Digit Addition and Subtraction Worksheets With & Without Regrouping

Triple and Quadruple Digit Addition and Subtraction Practice Worksheets

Single and Double Digit Addition and Subtraction Worksheets Practice

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✨Unlock the Fun in Learning Solving One-Step Inequalities!✨

Engage your students with an exciting kinesthetic activity designed specifically for mastering one-step inequalities! With 10 interactive stations, this engaging learning activity will get your students moving and thinking critically.

How It Works:

• Start with a Student Sheet: Each student receives a scavenger hunt sheet to track their progress. Students may select where to begin, or you may assign them to a particular station.
• Solve and Record: At each poster, students solve the challenge problem at the bottom of the poster, record their answer on the student recording sheet, and find their next destination based on their answer.
• Explore and Discover: Once students find their answer, they are going to “sprint” (or walk calmly ☺) to the poster with their answer at the top of it.
• Collaborate and Compete: As they sprint (or walk calmly) to new stations, they can work cooperatively while reinforcing key concepts.

Why Choose Our Scavenger Hunt?

✅Promotes Active Learning: Keeps students engaged through movement and

collaboration.

✅Reinforces Key Skills: Focuses on understanding linear inequalities in a fun,
interactive way.

✅Flexible Setup: Perfect for any classroom environment—adaptable to your
teaching style!

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Ratios and scale are math concepts that are used in everyday life. This activity gets students up and moving and lets them practice these skills by measuring and re-scaling everyday objects in your classroom. Great way to practice these math concepts in a fun way with a partner! This lesson works well for math, engineering, or CTE classes and could also be used as an extension activity.

This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Edmodo, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive.

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This drag and drop, self checking and no prep activity is an engaging way for your students to practice percent of a number problems: it includes finding the part given the percent and whole, and finding the percent given the part and whole

Students will solve 20 problems.

A printable version is also included.

Perfect for:

• Early finishers
• End of the year activities
• Back to school activities

This activity is designed to work on laptops, tablets, or smartphones, making it accessible to any of your learners and students!

If they need to complete it on different days they just have to save the address at the top of the page and they will start back right where they left off.

Since this activity is online (interactive pages) there is very little prep; just provide the link, and off they go! There are no locks to configure or clues to hide—everything you need is online. No Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams logins are necessary.

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Level 1: Appropriate for introducing inequalities.

Inequalities Task cards are included. There are 20 printable task cards and one-page answer sheet.

All the answers to the task cards are included.

Ideal for early practice or introduction to inequalities in middle school math, this resource encourages students to solve and graph inequalities with ease and holiday cheer.

More levels on inequalities available:

Solving Inequalities with Addition and Subtraction, Guided Notes and Practice

Solving Inequalities with Multiplication and Division Guided Notes and Practice

Solving Multi-Step Inequalities Guided Notes and Practice

Solving Compound Inequalities (AND and OR) Guided Notes and Practice Activity

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This is a NO PREP, download and go resource!

This download includes one month (20 days) of fall task cards on Google Slides. There are 3 slides per day that are color coded. These task cards would work great for any of the fall months. Task cards can be done as a group when projected onto the board, individually, set aside for fast finishers or used for morning work.

• 60 total slides

Skills included:

-Money totals

-Change back

-Time elapsed

-ABC order

-Nouns, verbs and adjectives

-Common & proper nouns

-Fact & opinion

-Greater than, less than & equal to

-Add to

-Finding the missing addend

& more

This product is great for distance learning utilizing Google Classroom or Gmail accounts. This resource is also great for schools and districts pushing for more technology use in school or during school closures.

Check out some of my other Fall activities:

October Life Skills Morning Work

This google doc contains multiplication and division word problems with fractions and mixed numbers. They range from very easy to challenging. There are also 4 real world, multi-part challenge problems included that would be great from a Criterion D task if you are at an IB school or if not, great to push your high-achievers.

Note this is a PowerPoint Presentation & Activity, all in one.

Double Bubble Car Wash: Intro. to Problem Solving through Depth and Complexity

The beginning of the year problem-solving activity is designed to engage your students with mathematical reasoning and critical thinking.

Part1:

Open-ended problem with no correct answer as long as students are able to prove their solution with mathematical evidence.

Part II:

Four unique extensions of the original problem using depth and complexity icons.

Can be used with multiple grade levels depending on their multiplication readiness. Originally designed for gifted 5th-grade students.

Solution: While it is likely not possible for a single-lane, single-franchise car wash to produce millions of satisfied customers each year, multiple-lane, multiple-franchise car washes could certainly support their claim.

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Fractions are tough, unexciting and abstract. This 6-page task (with complete key), makes them practical, easy and applicable to real life.

Students will practice the skills of

• equivalent fractions
• comparing fractions
• adding fractions
• adding mixed numbers
• getting common denominators
• using ratio to compare mm to inches.

The task can be used well for

• review in later grades
• group work
• an end of unit assessment
• work (problem) stations
• homework (with mom and dad in the work shed)

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This is a great little card game for helping players grasp the idea that angles in a triangle and on a straight line all add up to 180 degrees. By mixing these concepts together, with cards that also show two angles, it exercises the theory in a strong and varied way. A full set of rules are included in the game, and the cards are printed with easy-cut guides to make preparation fast and simple. This card game is also available in a bundle of 5 games for the price of 3. For savings, click here to see. You may also like: Angles Worksheets UK Angles Worksheets US Angles Card Game Construction Dash Card Game If you have any comments or suggestions, and to stay updated please follow us or take a look at our Facebook Page Please click here to visit our website for more information about LittleStreams

Master multiplication the easy way with this proven step-by-step system! The Step Multiplication & Lattice Multiplication Bundle gives you:

• Comprehensive step-by-step instructions for solving multi-digit multiplication problems
• Hands-on lattice method to visually break down complex calculations
• 100+ practice worksheets to build lightning-fast math skills

Conquer multi-digit multiplication and watch your math confidence soar.

This bundle is a game-changer for students and adults who struggle with the traditional algorithm. Unlock the secrets to effortless multiplication and take your math skills to the next level.

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This resource includes:

• 4 Math Multiplication Products (2 Lattice Multiplication & 2 Step Multiplication)
• 2 Digit by 1 Digit, 2 Digit by 2 Digit, 3 Digit by 2 Digit & 3 Digit by 3 Digit
• Printable PDF File
• Easel Activity
• Answer Keys

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Welcome to Mathologist's Dollar Store, where every teacher resource is just one dollar, helping you create a vibrant classroom without stretching your budget!

This short, printable lesson is designed to help students independently learn how to write expressions and equations. It features guided notes to support understanding and series of practice questions to reinforce skills.

This is also ideal for self-paced learning but also a great way for classroom use or homework assignments.

This is all of my fraction resources that I use with my 6th graders.

**Get your students moving through the United States while learning geography and math skills. **Students will move through the United States as they travel through seven destinations of their choice. This activity integrates math and geography, featuring map reading and measurement using a map scale. It includes calculations for gas costs, driving times, mileage, and more.

This resource encourages students to **problem-solve **while accurately using a map scale to plan a round trip across the United States. As students calculate distances, mileage, driving times, and gas expenses, they will develop higher-order thinking skills with real-life application.

This engaging activity empowers students to take ownership of their learning. Additionally, the instructions offer helpful tips on using yarn to teach how to measure distances on a road map. Students will learn how travel was done before GPS. Although we rely on GPS systems to get us from Point A to Point B, it is still important to know in today's digital age.

While GPS navigation systems and online mapping tools have made it easier to find our way around, having a good grasp of map scales can still come in handy. By using a map scale, students can accurately calculate distances on maps and understand the relationship between the physical size of the area being represented and its distance on the map. This skill can be useful for planning road trips, hiking excursions, or even understanding the layout of a city. Additionally, knowing how to read a map scale can help students develop spatial awareness and improve their overall geographical knowledge. So, while technology may make navigation more convenient, learning how to use a map scale is still a valuable skill that will never go out of style.

This activity incorporates math with geography:

• Measurement
• Gas Cost Calculations
• Driving Time Calculations
• Mileage Calculations &
• Map Reading

This lesson will require each team has a large laminated road map that can be purchased through or donated by your local stores, such as Walmart or Target.

If you have a way to make poster-sized maps, you can google the road maps of America and there are many that can be found.

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It is always a good strategy to review essential skills with your students, and this is right up there with the most essential!

Slope (Gradient) is a very practical real-life experience for all of us - we climb stairs daily and walk up and down very steep and less steep inclines. In this practical, outside activity, students encounter slope first hand and then make sense of the mathematics behind it. Students are then encouraged to think about the real-life applications and implications that slope has in the life of people like the elderly and the handicapped.

Linear equations, slope, rise over run, gradient, y=mx+b.

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