These activities will help SC 7th Grade students reinforce their math skills outside of the classroom.
Miaʼs cell phone plan is $15 a month including free texting plus $0.20 per minute of call time. Mia made 30 minutes of calls this month, and 110 texts. How much does she have to pay?
Which is a better price? Why?
33.3% is the answer. What could the question possibly be? Challenge yourself to think of more questions.
Go to website: http://gregtangmath.com/Kakooma/Kakooma?gameType=Negatives. Choose a level and enjoy practicing your quick calculations.
There are three choices of jellybeans: grape, cherry and orange. If the probability of getting a grape is 3/10 and the probability of getting cherry is 1/5, what is the probability of getting orange?
Twice a number (n) minus nine is ninety-five. Find the number (n).
A menu has these options for sandwiches: 3 types of bread, 4 meat choices, and 5 topping choices. How many possible sandwiches can be made? Can you create a different menu with the same outcome?
Joe has an 80ft:1inch scale- drawing of the floor plan of his house. On the floor plan, the dimensions of his rectangular living room are 1 7/8 inches by 2 1/2 inches. What is the area of living room in square feet?
Add 3 to x, subtract the result from1, then double what you have.
Visit the website http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.htmlhttp://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.htmlChallenge yourself with fun activities! List them.
If the product of 6 integers is negative, at most how many of the integers can be negative?
Games Unlimited buys video games for $10. The store increases the price 300%.
What is the price of the video game?
Go to website: http://illuminations.nctm.org/Search.aspx?view=search&gr=6-8 Choose a resource to explore.
Using a grocery store receipt, figure what percentage of the bill was spent on vegetables, meat, drinks, junk food, and other.
Can a triangle have more than one obtuse angle? Will three sides of any length create a triangle?
The pages of a book are numbered consecutively from 1 to 275. How many times is the digit 8 used in numbering the pages?
Choose a favorite professional athlete and research his/her annual salary. How much does s/he earn in a month? A day?
A circle has a circumference of 28π centimeters (cm). What is the area, in cm, of this circle? Show all work necessary to justify your response.
Using a receipt, find the mean, median, and mode of the prices of the items on the receipt from a store (grocery, clothing).
Solve:3w + 2 = 20. Can you write a real world problem that this equation represents?
11 green. He takes out a sweet and eats it, then, he takes out a second sweet. What is the probability that both the sweets are red?
Play a game with positive & negative integers.
Ex. Monopoly, Parcheesi, Mancala, Connect Four. What strategy did you use?
Look up a famous math person and read about him/her. What did he/she discover? How was it used? Ex. Fibonacci, Pythagoras.
Visit the website Figure this and solve a real life math challenge.
George’s weekly pay rate is $455 per week. He receives a 20% raise. What is his new weekly wage rate?
Visit the website: http://nrich.maths.org/5864http://nrich.maths.org/5864 and play Connect Three with positive & negative integers.
Find the area of a circle if the diameter is 20 feet.
$10.00. Write an inequality that represents the number of pounds of bananas, b, he can buy.
Dan’s salary is $70 less than Sam’s, whose weekly salary is $50 more than Jan’s. If Jan earns $280 per week, how much money does Dan earn per week?
Make a paper airplane and fly it several times. Find the mean, median, and mode of the distance your plane can fly.
On May 1st, Jay’s mom gave him 1 cent. Each day, she paid double the amount she paid the day before. How much money did Jay earn in total by May 15?
Two adjacent angles are always complementary. True or false?