Horace
W. Porter’s
Grade
7
Summer
Math Review
July
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Check off activities
once completed! |
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Use the ads in the
newspaper to determine which store has the best deal for a DVD player. How much will it cost? How much will you save? |
Estimate the
percentage of hours you watch TV each day.
Keep track of the number of hours you watch TV each day for 5
days. What percent of each day do you
watch TV? |
How many nickel
deposit soda bottles/cans must you return to buy Monday’s DVD player? Remember to include |
You have chosen to
read a book from the Eighth Grade Summer Reading List that is 325 pages
long. You want to read it the last 9
days before school starts. How many
pages must you read each day? |
If you have 3
different pairs of shorts, 4 T-shirts, a pair of sandals and a pair of
sneakers, how many different outfits could you wear today? You might find a tree diagram helpful to
solve this. |
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Using a bag of
skittles or M&M’s, find the percentage of each color candy in the bag. |
Find the area of
your bedroom. What percentage of
your house is this? (Do not include
your cellar or attic) |
How many cubic feet
of orange soda can your bedroom hold? |
Your living room is
going to be wall papered. How many square
feet of wall paper will you need? (Remember you will not be covering the
windows!) |
How many quarters
will you have to save to have one hundred dollars? |
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If there are 65 days
in summer vacation, how many days are there in 1/3 of the summer vacation? |
If a race car
travels one lap in 30 seconds, how fast is it traveling? (One lap at this
race track is ½ mile.) |
What percentage of
the summer is left? Play a game of
Yahtzee or another number game today. |
You can only get a
ride to the lake on prime numbered days during summer vacation. On what days can you get a ride? |
How many raisins are
there in a small box? How many raisins
would be in one pound of raisins? |
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Measure the length
of a dollar bill. How many dollar bills
would you have to put end to end to go from your house to the center of |
The sun is 93
million miles away. How long would it
take you to get there if you can only go 60 miles per hour? |
Prepare a pitcher of
frozen juice. How many ounces of water
must you add? How many cups is
this? How many quarts? |
Prepare (or buy
already made) a circular pizza.
Calculate both its area and circumference |
Choose three pages
of a daily newspaper (not the front page).
What fraction of each page is ads? Add the fractions. |