7th Grade Other (Math) Projects

6th Grade Plan A Party - Project Based Learning - PBL - GCF, LCM, & Box Plots

By E•Fish•ient Teaching

Do your students ever wonder when they will use their math in their real life? Well this project is for you! Party Planning is a project based math activity with real life scenarios. Students will use their knowledge of the 6th grade math core and prior math concepts to plan their own party. Some of the skills used in this activity are least common multiple, greatest common factor, percentages, unit fractions, multiplication, and more. Check out the preview to see more.

This project is perfect for the end of 6th grade for the students to put into practice what they learned all year in math. Party Planning has an array of different math exercises. It seamlessly integrates the 6th grade math curriculum with real-world scenarios, fostering a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts while igniting creativity. It could also be a great activity for the beginning of 7th grade math to refresh their memory of the skills they learned and will grow upon that year.

Join the Party Planning committee and:

  • Use area to choose a venue
  • Budget for the party food & buy the correct serving sizes based off their party size utilizing multiplication of decimals
  • Practice unit price and percentages to calculate decorations for the party
  • Apply their knowledge of greatest common factor and least common multiples to pick party favors for the guests
  • Use absolute values to read and compare party game scores
  • Interpret data and create their own box & whisker plots using mean, median, mode, quartiles, and extremes
  • An optional final project with rubric presenting their party data to the principal

What exactly do you get?

  • A brief instruction for the teacher to understand the project.
  • A brief instruction for the student to understand their task
  • A venue page
  • Menu & budgeting (differentiated for your students needs)
  • Party Decorations, Party Games, Party Favors, and Data Math Pages
  • Rubric for Student to Create a presentation of their findings
  • Answer keys for math pages

This project can be tailored to your student. You can give each student a different number of class size or you can have two students work together to find their answers. There are a lot of possibilities with this project and I hope you can find what works for you. This project includes 35 pages with answer keys. 26 of those pages are the project pages.

With this engaging activity & real world relevance, Party Planning turns your class into an immersive adventure where students get to become party planners and mathematicians.

What has been said about this product?

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐From Melissa Ball saying, "I used it this year as a year end review and liked it much better than just boring review like I did the year before. My students loved seeing the real world application of the math we had learned all year."

If you enjoyed this project, take a look at some other project based learning activities from my store:

  • Cotton Candy Math Stand
  • Place Value Boulevard - For Younger Classrooms

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$6.50