7th Grade  

 How is the idea of proportion used in art? 7.G.A.1

• https://kidcourses.com/principles-design-scale-proportion/

What is the expected payoff for a local lottery game? 7.SP.C

How many gallons of water does God transport into the water cycle on a 1-acre field when it rains one inch? 7.G.B, 7.RP

• 1 cubic foot of water = 7.48 gallons

 Is it okay to say you are bad at mathematics?

• It is not possible to know the plans God has for your life and which mathematics skills will be necessary. Only God knows the plans that he has for you. Jer. 29:11

Why do we have to learn this?

• Proverbs 25:2, “It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.”

How does mathematics help us learn about _____________? (Fill in the blank with the current science unit.)

How do our solutions display our unique image-bearing as creative caretakers, problem-solvers, and innovators who continue to develop the creation? 7.RP

Do you agree with Galileo Galilei’s statement that “Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe”? MP4

 Take students on a nature walk in which they locate angles in nature. Once they locate, they should measure the angle and then calculate its complimentary angle.7.G.B.5

Financial stewardship

• Percent problems with financial applications 7.RP.A.2

• Parable of the Talents Matthew 25:14-30

• Give students a micro loan to help grow the initial investment as a fundraiser for a charitable organization of their choosing. 7.RP.A.3       

What are ways in which mathematics can be used for good financially? What are ways that it can be used for evil financially?

• “Cooking the books”

Allow students to demonstrate alternate solutions

• The diversity of solutions represents the diversity in our community.

• The amazing unity present in mathematics allows alternate methods to still produce the same solution.

Establish a classroom climate that allows each individual’s perspective to be shared regularly. (Some students need to be encouraged to participate, while others need to allow others a chance to share.)

Select an organization to raise funds for and conduct a change war between classes in which each class raises money by depositing change in their class jar. 

• Use the activity to work with integer operations as classes can deposit bills in competing classes which count negative towards their total. 7.NS

Have the effects of inflation on the price of bread and minimum wage made it easier to feed a family or more difficult? 7.RP.3

• http://www.moneyasyoulearn.org/tasks/the-price-of-bread/?bid=6-8_inflation

Explore the Fibonacci Sequence

• Connect to The Golden Mean 7.RP

  • Model the golden ratio in ratios of students’ bodies

  • Head length to width, finger segments, etc.

  • An example of the beauty and mathematics that God has interwoven in our physical bodies.

    • Psalm 139:14 “I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
        your works are wonderful; I know that full well.”

How do our attitudes toward mathematics reflect our attitudes towards God’s creation? If we say that we hate mathematics, what does that communicate to the Creator of mathematics?

What is the place of randomness in an ordered creation? 7.SP

• Can randomness and providence exist at the same time?

How can comparisons help us better understand the good and evil in creation? 7.SP.B

Is probability a result of the fall? 7.SP.C