7th Math State Test Review (Oklahoma) – Pinball Challenge/Game (Copy)

Item description

This activity was designed to be something different and engaging for the students and not just a “worksheet” review. It is fairly simple and hugely flexible to use as you see fit. You can use it as is (with a few prep details before you share with the students) or expand it to be a “game” with rewards (EX: complete a level early, pick your seat for the day) or as a class challenge or simply to use as a whole class activity. 

Scenario

Slide 1: State testing is coming up. Yesterday, someone destroyed all the testing materials that arrived last week by tearing it all up and leaving a mess in the counselor’s office. Your job is to determine who dun it!

Slide 2: Even though all the suspects look innocent and supposedly have alibis, one of them is the culprit.

Slide 3: You will be completing questions and the correct answers will give clues to solving the crime.

Overview Video

56 slides included in the activity

Standards included in this activity:

7.N.1 Read, write, represent, compare rational numbers (integers, fractions, decimals)

7.N.2 Calculate with integers and rational numbers; explain absolute value

7.A.1 Understand the concept of proportionality in real-world

7.A.2 Recognize proportional relationships in real-world and mathematical situations

7.A.3 Represent and solve linear equations and inequalities.

7.A.4 Use order of operations and properties of operations 

7.GM.1 Develop and understand the concept of surface area and volume of rectangular prisms 

7.GM.2 Determine the area of trapezoids and area and perimeter of composite figures

7.GM.3 Reason with proportions and ratios (involving circles and related geometric figures)

7.GM.4 Analyze the effect of dilations, translations, and reflections

7.D.1 Display and analyze data in a variety of ways

7.D.2 Calculate probabilities and reason about probabilities