7th Grade Problem of the Day: Daily Math Word Problems for February

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7th - 8th, Homeschool

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Math Test Prep, Word Problems, Valentine's Day

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CCSSMP1

CCSSMP2

CCSSMP4

CCSSMP5

CCSSMP6

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Engage and challenge your students with this 7th Grade Problem of the Day: Daily Math Word Problem resource for February. Packed with engaging and relevant math problems, this resource is perfect for daily problem solving practice. Each problem of the day is specifically designed for seventh graders, addressing essential math skills while integrating the excitement of February holidays and events, including Groundhog Day, Valentines, and more!

Your students will become skilled mathematicians as they analyze and solve these stimulating story problems, promoting critical thinking and mathematical fluency. With a month's worth of intriguing and diverse word problems, you can give your students ample opportunities to strengthen their math proficiency.

This resource is invaluable for any seventh grade teacher looking to inspire a love for math and build strong problem-solving abilities in their students.

This 7th Grade Word Problem of the Day Pack includes:

✔ Daily Problem Solving Teacher's Guide

✔ 4 weeks of February word problems, including a fun fact & related word problems for a five-day school week in two formats:

Daily Google Slides
Paper-saving Problem of the Day weekly printables

✔ Daily Problem Solving Teacher's Guide

✔ Answer keys

Word Problem Themes:

Each week includes a fun fact and the word problems are themed to align with monthly holidays, special events, and kid-friendly topics. This month's topics are:

Week 1: Groundhog
Week 2: Valentines
Week 3: Hot Breakfast Month
Week 4: February Fun

This February Problem of the Day resource for 7th grade includes:

1) Student-friendly formatting

Engaging multi-step word problem practice for 20 instructional days
Problems encourage the application of problem-solving strategies
Weekly reflection to encourage a growth mindset view of math through goal setting & metacognition
Provided as a 1-page printable or Google Slides for each week

2) Multi-step problems aligned to 7th grade standards & skills, including:

Calculation with decimals, fractions, and mixed numbers
Converting between units to solve
Percents
Rates & Proportions
Unit rates
One-variable Equations
Unit Conversion
Measures of central tendency & Interpreting Tables
Perimeter & Area - including circles
and more!

3) Teacher Support Materials

Suggestions for implementation to help you get started right away
Answer keys for easy grading & to help model one potential method for solving
At-a-glance guide for a snapshot of weekly themes and skills addressed

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Please note: These are challenging 7th grade word problems. You'll likely want to complete these problems as part of guided practice activity. Encourage them to break down complex problems and explore multiple solution methods. These challenging problems foster a growth mindset and the skills needed for future academic success.

If you view the preview and feel this may be discouraging for your learners, feel free to check out the sixth grade version here: 6th Grade Problem of the Day

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Benefits of the Problem of the Day Format:

❑ Increase students' confidence with a variety of math word problem formats

❑ Build confidence with multi-step word problems in 10-15 minutes a day

❑ Identify misconceptions or skill gaps & address them quickly & effectively

❑ No prep paper-saving format fits on a single page & doesn't overwhelm students

❑ Encourages discussion about math problem solving skills & strategies

Way to Incorporate Daily Problem Solving into your 7th grade math Classroom

• Use it as part of your daily warm-up or as a bellringer

• Include it in whole or small group math instruction

• Build these problems into your plans for test prep

• Offer these problems as Independent enrichment for early finishers

• Send the daily problem as homework

Here's what teachers & homeschoolers say about this resource:

♥ My students benefited tremendously when I began using these! Their confidence lacked when it came to word problems, but having one every day became routine and their confidence grew. The reflection at the end of the week told me a lot about how students were feeling, too. I also love how they aligned with holidays and true information… - Jennifer H.

♥ These have been very helpful to provide the students with much-needed problem-solving practice. It's challenging but short and sweet, so the students don't get discouraged - built-in "struggle time" that they need and try to avoid! It ensures I get some problem solving in regularly, even if we don't get to this every day. Thank you for this product! - Jacqueline T.

♥ AMAZING RESOURCE! I have my kiddos do daily math each week but wanted to incorporate more word problems. I staple this each week to their original daily math page. The problems are diverse and challenging. I love how many skills are covered and how they are multi-step. Perfect!! - Samantha M.

♥ These are amazing! I started using them halfway through the year when I found this resource since my other daily entry wasn't working. It connects great with the growth mindset activities I've been starting to incorporate into the classroom! Thank you for this great, confidence-building activity for my students to engage in each day! :) - F.F.

♥ I am obsessed with this set! My students love it, I love it, and after walking through my room when I was doing this whole group my Principal now loves it! Fantastically rigorous problems! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! - T.L.

♥ I absolutely LOVE this product! I cannot say enough good things about it. It is rigorous and covers so many of our critical standards. I start each math lesson with this as a warm-up. As the students come in for math they get started on it and then we go over it together. I like that it has a reflection at the end so my kids think about what skills they have mastered and which ones they still need to work on. I like the monthly theme with the little fact. So fun! -Rebecca R.

♥ This was a game changer. My students hate/or are afraid of word problems. We do these problems as a math bell ringer and then we go over them together. The best part for me was seeing them go from sitting there staring at the wall to actually TRYING to do the problems themselves. They made mistakes, but they tried! The kids love that each week has a theme. Thank you! - D.M.

♥ My daughter loves this in conjunction with a bell ringer resource and a few writing prompts as a warm-up to her day. It serves well to get her thinking and problem-solving at the start of her day. I am a huge advocate for creative practice and word problems really stretch the creative muscles. Love this! Thank you! - Amy G.

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CCSSMP1

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Mathematically proficient students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution. They analyze givens, constraints, relationships, and goals. They make conjectures about the form and meaning of the solution and plan a solution pathway rather than simply jumping into a solution attempt. They consider analogous problems, and try special cases and simpler forms of the original problem in order to gain insight into its solution. They monitor and evaluate their progress and change course if necessary. Older students might, depending on the context of the problem, transform algebraic expressions or change the viewing window on their graphing calculator to get the information they need. Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends. Younger students might rely on using concrete objects or pictures to help conceptualize and solve a problem. Mathematically proficient students check their answers to problems using a different method, and they continually ask themselves, "Does this make sense?" They can understand the approaches of others to solving complex problems and identify correspondences between different approaches.

CCSSMP2

Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Mathematically proficient students make sense of quantities and their relationships in problem situations. They bring two complementary abilities to bear on problems involving quantitative relationships: the ability to decontextualize-to abstract a given situation and represent it symbolically and manipulate the representing symbols as if they have a life of their own, without necessarily attending to their referents-and the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.

CCSSMP4

Model with mathematics. Mathematically proficient students can apply the mathematics they know to solve problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace. In early grades, this might be as simple as writing an addition equation to describe a situation. In middle grades, a student might apply proportional reasoning to plan a school event or analyze a problem in the community. By high school, a student might use geometry to solve a design problem or use a function to describe how one quantity of interest depends on another. Mathematically proficient students who can apply what they know are comfortable making assumptions and approximations to simplify a complicated situation, realizing that these may need revision later. They are able to identify important quantities in a practical situation and map their relationships using such tools as diagrams, two-way tables, graphs, flowcharts and formulas. They can analyze those relationships mathematically to draw conclusions. They routinely interpret their mathematical results in the context of the situation and reflect on whether the results make sense, possibly improving the model if it has not served its purpose.

CCSSMP5

Use appropriate tools strategically. Mathematically proficient students consider the available tools when solving a mathematical problem. These tools might include pencil and paper, concrete models, a ruler, a protractor, a calculator, a spreadsheet, a computer algebra system, a statistical package, or dynamic geometry software. Proficient students are sufficiently familiar with tools appropriate for their grade or course to make sound decisions about when each of these tools might be helpful, recognizing both the insight to be gained and their limitations. For example, mathematically proficient high school students analyze graphs of functions and solutions generated using a graphing calculator. They detect possible errors by strategically using estimation and other mathematical knowledge. When making mathematical models, they know that technology can enable them to visualize the results of varying assumptions, explore consequences, and compare predictions with data. Mathematically proficient students at various grade levels are able to identify relevant external mathematical resources, such as digital content located on a website, and use them to pose or solve problems. They are able to use technological tools to explore and deepen their understanding of concepts.

CCSSMP6

Attend to precision. Mathematically proficient students try to communicate precisely to others. They try to use clear definitions in discussion with others and in their own reasoning. They state the meaning of the symbols they choose, including using the equal sign consistently and appropriately. They are careful about specifying units of measure, and labeling axes to clarify the correspondence with quantities in a problem. They calculate accurately and efficiently, express numerical answers with a degree of precision appropriate for the problem context. In the elementary grades, students give carefully formulated explanations to each other. By the time they reach high school they have learned to examine claims and make explicit use of definitions.

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