Project-Based Middle School Math · Course 1
Build math skills through real-world challenges.
Four real-world math challenges. Approximately 20 instructional days per module. Learn through planning, testing, and revising with Design Thinking.
How the course works
Understand a challenge, learn and apply math, and make a plan. Test your ideas, revise using evidence, and reflect on your choices.
Design Thinking is an ongoing cycle: return to your plan as you learn, try again, and explain why your decisions make sense.
Four challenges to explore
Module 1
Community Event Challenge
Use audience feedback, compare costs, and design a space and schedule to explain your event choices.
Main math concepts
- Data and statistics
- Ratios and proportional reasoning
- Budgeting and planning
- Measurement, area, and perimeter
Approximately 20 instructional days
Explore Module 1Module 2
Food Lab & Pop-Up Café
Scale recipes, compare ingredient purchases, and test how prices and sales affect your café’s profit.
Main math concepts
- Ratios and recipe scaling
- Fractions, decimals, and measurement conversions
- Unit rates
- Cost, pricing, and profit
Approximately 20 instructional days
Explore Module 2Module 3
Design a Better Space
Plan a room layout, calculate materials, and use measurements and costs to support your design choices.
Main math concepts
- Scale drawings
- Area and perimeter
- Volume
- Measurement and unit conversions
- Budgeting
Approximately 20 instructional days
Explore Module 3Module 4
Game Studio Challenge
Compare predicted outcomes with playtest results and use a coordinate gameboard to improve your game.
Main math concepts
- Probability and sample spaces
- Experimental data
- Coordinate plane and grid distance
- Data analysis
Approximately 20 instructional days
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