7th Grade
Is mathematics created, invented, or discovered? (B-C)
How can mathematics be a tool to seek justice? (J-S) 7.G.B.6
The history of the United States’ treatment of Native Americans includes many injustices. One example of these injustices is The Treaties of Fort Laramie in 1851 and 1868.
Use your geometrical skills to estimate the percentage that the new territory was of the previous territory (Anhalt et al, 2022).
(Maps courtesy State Historical society of North Dakota)
How does mathematics reflect the beauty of creation? (B-C)
How is the idea of proportion used in art? 7.G.A.1
How can mathematics be used for good or evil? (I-D)
How does mathematics allow us to be effective servant-workers? (S-W)
What is the expected payoff for a local lottery game? 7.SP.C
How can mathematics help us explore and learn about creation? (C-E)
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
How does mathematics allow us to be effective servant-workers? (S-W)
How do we reflect God’s image when we do mathematics? (I-R)
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 can mathematics help us explore and learn about creation? (C-E)
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
How can we enjoy creation through thinking mathematically? (C-E)
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
How can mathematics help us be good stewards? (E-K)
How can mathematics be used for good or evil? (I-D)
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”
How can we reflect the body of Christ in how we do mathematics together? (C-B)
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.)
How is mathematics a tool to serve others? (S-W)
How can understanding and using mathematics help build community? (C-B)
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
How can we worship God through mathematics? (G-W)
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 do we learn about God’s character when we study mathematics? (O-D)
What is the place of randomness in an ordered creation? 7.SP
Can randomness and providence exist at the same time?
How can mathematics be used for good or evil? (I-D)
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