Year Seven Inquiry Resources
Select a strand from the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics, below.
NUMBER AND ALGEBRA
Food for thought: Do Primary students eat nutritious breakfast cereals?
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In this unit, students explore the nutritional value of a variety of cereals and investigate whether the most popular cereals are actually nutritious.
Links to Australian Curriculum: Mathematics:
Year 5: ACMNA105, ACMSP118, ACMSP119, ACMSP120 Year 6: ACMNA131, ACMMG135, ACMSP147 Year 7: ACMNA157, AMNA158, ACMSP169 For formative assessment prompts and Our Marking Guide for summative assessment, please log in to the Member section.
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Fight for Flight: What is the best design for a loopy aeroplane?
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In this unit, students combine knowledge of the principles of flight with the technology process to determine the most effective design for a loopy aeroplane.
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MEASUREMENT AND GEOMETRY
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
Food for thought: Do Primary students eat nutritious breakfast cereals?
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In this unit, students explore the nutritional value of a variety of cereals and investigate whether the most popular cereals are actually nutritious.
Links to Australian Curriculum: Mathematics:
Year 5: ACMNA105, ACMSP118, ACMSP119, ACMSP120 Year 6: ACMNA131, ACMMG135, ACMSP147 Year 7: ACMNA157, ACMNA158, ACMSP169 For formative assessment prompts and Our Marking Guide for summative assessment, please log in to the Member section.
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Fight for Flight: What is the best design for a loopy aeroplane?
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In this unit, students combine knowledge of the principles of flight with the technology process to determine the most effective design for a loopy aeroplane.
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You may also be interested in other inquiries from the Thinking through Mathematics series, Book 3 (Ages 10-13)The following titles are available on the Free Resources page:
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Biased Bingo: What bingo card would give me the best chance of winning?
In this unit, students devise bingo cards which they believe will give them the best chance of winning a game of addition fact bingo.
In this unit, students devise bingo cards which they believe will give them the best chance of winning a game of addition fact bingo.
Record Breaking: Are Athletes getting better over time? In this unit, students will focus on sporting records and performance and consider factors that have had an impact on athletes' performance over time.
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- Walking School Bus: What is the best walking school bus route in our school catchment area? In this unit students devise a walking school bus route and timetable that is appropriate for their school catchment area.
- Take or Make: How expensive is takeaway food? In this unit, students combine their familiarity with takeaway food menus to determine how expensive takeaway food actually is.
- My Space: What's the best way to arrange our classroom? In this unit, students design a classroom arrangement that best meets the needs of the class.
- Growing Up: How much do we grow in primary school? In this unit, students compare data sets to identify how much a typical student grows during their primary years of schooling.
- Positive and negative integers: What is the best game that you can create to model positive and negative integers? This inquiry has students investigating everyday situations that use integers. Students locate and represent these numbers on a number line.
