Project-based middle-school math

Course 1

Explore middle-school math through four creative projects that connect calculations, design choices, and clear explanations.

For middle-school homeschool students and families.

Apply math to an event proposal, a café plan, a room redesign, and a tabletop game. Use Design Thinking to understand needs, develop ideas, test designs, and improve them with evidence and reflection.

4 modules · Approximately 20 instructional days per module.

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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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