7th Math SBAC Task Day 2

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12 questions

1st Task

For the following tasks, please remember to...
Annotate important words/numbers
View or use all visuals/diagrams
Evidence: show or explain
Check: Make sure your answer is reasonable and answers the actual question.

Janna likes to make jewelry. She is working on a necklace made up of different types of beads.


Janna followed the steps below in making her necklace.
-Step 1, she put the center rhombus-shaped bead on the necklace.
-Step 2, she put the oval-shaped beads on the necklace.
-Step 3, she put the parallelogram-shaped beads on the necklace.
-Step 4, she put the triangular-shaped beads on the necklace.

How many beads were on the necklace after step 2?

Janna continued to add beads to the necklace following the same pattern.

How many beads will be on the necklace after step 8? Show how you figured it out.

Describe how the pattern grows in number of beads from step to step:

Write an equation where the variable x stands for the step number and y is the total number of beads after completing step x.

Janna finished making her necklace and counted how many beads were on it. The total was 125 beads. How many steps did it take her to complete the necklace?
Show how you figured it out.

Finished early on our first task? Nice work! Please work on IXL before we move on to the second task. 

Do not move ahead. 

2nd Task

School Fundraiser--A school is going to have a fundraiser to buy new books for the library. The goal is to raise at least $1,000. Three different fundraising plans are being discussed. 

--Plan 1: Selling candy bars
--Plan 2: Seeling flowers
--Plan 3: Walkathon

In order to evaluate the three plans, you will need to answer the following questions about each plan. For today, we will only look at Plan 1 and Plan 3. 

**Try to do calculations by hand, but if you need help or want to check your work, you may use a calculator in this section**

If you have time...

Answer in miles per hour.

Great practice with tasks today! 

If you are waiting for partner discussion time, please move on to IXL skills to keep yourself sharp for SBAC.

7th Math SBAC Task Day 2

How many beads were on the necklace after step 2?

Janna continued to add beads to the necklace following the same pattern. How many beads will be on the necklace after step 8? Show how you figured it out.

Describe how the pattern grows in number of beads from step to step:

Write an equation where the variable x stands for the step number and y is the total number of beads after completing step x.

Janna finished making her necklace and counted how many beads were on it. The total was 125 beads. How many steps did it take her to complete the necklace? Show how you figured it out.

Answer in miles per hour.

Janna continued to add beads to the necklace following the same pattern.

How many beads will be on the necklace after step 8? Show how you figured it out.

Janna finished making her necklace and counted how many beads were on it. The total was 125 beads. How many steps did it take her to complete the necklace?
Show how you figured it out.