Students take real-life measurements of themselves and use a scale factor to create a miniature version. They draw their “Mini Me” to scale, then analyze the math behind the transformation. The project involves real-world math applications, collaboration, and conceptual understanding of ratios, proportions and graphing relationships.

Skills covered

• Understanding and applying scale factors
• Converting measurements using ratios and proportions
• Graphing proportional relationships
• Writing and using linear equations
• Solving real-world problems involving proportions and scale drawings

Quick facts

• Grades: 6–7
• CCSS: 7.G.A.1, 6.SP.B.5, 6.EE.C.9, 7.EE.B.4, 6.RP.A.1, 6.RP.A.3a, 6.RP.A.3d, 7.RP.A.1, 7.RP.A.2, 7.RP.A.3
• Answer key: included

Bundles and related resources

The project is available in these bundles:

• Middle School Math Intervention Plan
• 7th Grade Math Curriculum Resources Bundle

Free resources

Get my free Warm Up Slides templates.

Terms of use

By purchasing this product, you own a license for one teacher only for personal use in their own classroom. Licenses are non-transferable and therefore can not be passed from one teacher to another. If the teacher who purchased this license leaves the classroom or changes schools, the license and materials leave with that teacher. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire team, grade level, school or district without purchasing the correct number of licenses. If you are a coach, principal or district interested in transferable licenses that would accommodate yearly staff changes, please contact me for a transferable license quote at lindsay@beyondtheworksheet.com.

© Beyond the Worksheet. Please note – all material included in this resource belongs to Beyond the Worksheet Inc. By purchasing, you have a license to use the material but you do not own the material. You may not upload any portion of this resource to the internet in any format, including school/personal websites or network drives unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students, not other teachers or anyone else on the internet.

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A Google Slides version is included for digital use, and there is an alternative worksheet for classrooms without physical objects.

What’s included

• Pi facts graphic organizer, to introduce or review key facts about pi
• Measurement and calculation table, where students record and find values for real cylinders
• Alternative worksheet, ready to use when you have no objects
• Google Slides version for virtual learning or digital assignments
• Answer key, for quick grading or as a self-checking option

Good to know

This is a no prep activity, and you can run it either way: with real objects or with the provided worksheet. With objects, students handle and measure real cylinders, which gives the geometry a real-world application.

Quick facts

• Grades: 6–9
• CCSS: 7.G.B.4, 7.G.B.6, 8.G.C.9
• Answer key: included

Bundles and related resources

These activities are part of the 7th Grade Math Curriculum Resources Mega Bundle.

Free resources

Get my free Warm Up Slides templates.

Terms of use

By purchasing this product, you own a license for one teacher only for personal use in their own classroom. Licenses are non-transferable and therefore can not be passed from one teacher to another. If the teacher who purchased this license leaves the classroom or changes schools, the license and materials leave with that teacher. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire team, grade level, school or district without purchasing the correct number of licenses. If you are a coach, principal or district interested in transferable licenses that would accommodate yearly staff changes, please contact me for a transferable license quote at lindsay@beyondtheworksheet.com.

© Beyond the Worksheet. Please note – all material included in this resource belongs to Beyond the Worksheet Inc. By purchasing, you have a license to use the material but you do not own the material. You may not upload any portion of this resource to the internet in any format, including school/personal websites or network drives unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students, not other teachers or anyone else on the internet.

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