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

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Module 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

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Module 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

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Module 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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What to expect

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