Students practice a broad set of seventh grade math skills in this balloon-popping game show activity. Learners solve problems involving rational number operations, ratios and proportional relationships, and scale drawings of geometric figures as they pop balloons to reveal each new question. This activity supports Common Core standards 7.G.B.5, 7.NS.A.1 (including parts A-D), and 7.RP.A.2.
Skills: rational numbers, ratios and proportions, scale factor, problem-solving. Grades 7-8.