December 2026 holiday · Grade 7
Grade 7 holiday homework, ready to print or do online
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- 76 questions
- Answers with working
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This is a December 2026 holiday homework pack for Grade 7, for parents to use at home. Schools began closing for the long holiday on 15 October 2026, and learners are home until early January 2027, when your child moves up to Grade 8 (Daily Nation, 18 October 2026, citing the Ministry of Education’s 2026 calendar).
Grade 7 was a big jump: nine learning areas, new subjects like Integrated Science and Pre-Technical Studies, and harder Mathematics. This pack revisits that first Junior School year so it sticks before Grade 8 builds on it. It covers prime factors, fractions, equations and speed in Mathematics, acids and bases, circuits and magnets in Integrated Science, and phrasal verbs and subject-verb agreement in English. Every question is new, written for this pack in Kenyan settings and matched to a strand in the KICD Grade 7 designs. Answers sit under each set behind a “Show answers” button.
Holiday Tuition Is Banned, Home Revision Is Not
Section 37 of the Basic Education Act, 2013 states that “No pupil shall be subjected to holiday tuition”, with penalties of up to KSh 100,000, a year in prison, or both. It is aimed at organised holiday classes. A learner revising on their own at home, with a parent checking, is not holiday tuition. This pack is for that kind of home use only.
How to Use This Pack
- Thirty to forty minutes, three or four days a week. One learning area at a time.
- Let them work independently. At twelve or thirteen, your child can do a set alone and mark it, while you look at the score and talk about the hardest question.
- Keep a calculator out of Mathematics unless a question says otherwise. The working is the point.
- Mark online or on paper. Online, tick or cross each answer and the score is saved to the account. The printable PDF has the answers at the back.
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Mathematics
Strands covered: Numbers (whole numbers, factors, fractions, decimals, squares and square roots), Algebra (linear equations and inequalities), Measurements (Pythagoras, length, area, volume, speed, temperature, money), Geometry and Data Handling.
- (a) Write 4,250,300 in words. (b) Round 487,652,310 to the nearest hundred million.
- (a) Write 360 as a product of its prime factors. (b) Find the GCD and the LCM of 12 and 18. (c) Two school bells ring every 12 minutes and every 18 minutes. They ring together at 8:00 a.m. When do they next ring together?
- Work out: (a) 2 1/4 ÷ 3/8, (b) 3/5 × 2 1/2.
- Work out: (a) 2.4 × 0.35, (b) 7.56 ÷ 0.6.
- Find: (a) √(49/64), (b) 0.3², (c) √1.44.
- (a) Solve 3x − 7 = 2x + 5. (b) A pen costs x shillings and an exercise book costs KSh 30 more than the pen. Together they cost KSh 110. Form an equation and find the price of each.
- (a) Solve x + 3 > 7 and describe how you would show it on a number line. (b) List the whole numbers that satisfy −1 < x ≤ 3.
- A ladder 5 m long leans against a wall. Its top touches the wall 4 m above the ground. How far is the foot of the ladder from the wall?
- Take π = 22/7. (a) Find the circumference of a circle with diameter 14 cm. (b) Find the area of a circle with radius 7 cm. (c) Find the area of a trapezium whose parallel sides are 8 m and 12 m and whose height is 5 m.
- A cylindrical water tank has a radius of 0.7 m and a height of 2 m. Take π = 22/7. Find its volume in cubic metres, and its capacity in litres.
- (a) A bus leaves Nairobi and covers 180 km in 2 hours 30 minutes. Find its average speed in km/h. (b) Convert 72 km/h to metres per second. (c) Convert 25 °C to kelvin.
- (a) A trader buys a radio for KSh 2,400 and sells it for KSh 3,000. Find the profit and the percentage profit. (b) A pair of shoes is marked KSh 1,500, with a 10% discount. How much do you pay? (c) A mobile-money agent earns 5% commission on transactions worth KSh 40,000. How much commission is that?
- In a class of 36 learners, 18 walk to school, 12 use a matatu and 6 cycle. Find the angle each group gets on a pie chart.
Show answers: Mathematics
- (a) Four million, two hundred and fifty thousand, three hundred. (b) 500,000,000 (the hundred-millions digit is 4 and the next digit, 8, is 5 or more).
- (a) 360 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 3 × 5 = 2³ × 3² × 5. (b) 12 = 2² × 3 and 18 = 2 × 3², so GCD = 2 × 3 = 6 and LCM = 2² × 3² = 36. (c) After 36 minutes: 8:36 a.m.
- (a) 9/4 × 8/3 = 72/12 = 6. (b) 3/5 × 5/2 = 15/10 = 1 1/2.
- (a) 24 × 35 = 840, with 3 decimal places: 0.84. (b) 75.6 ÷ 6 = 12.6.
- (a) 7/8 (b) 0.09 (c) 1.2.
- (a) 3x − 2x = 5 + 7, so x = 12. (b) x + (x + 30) = 110, so 2x = 80, x = 40. Pen KSh 40, exercise book KSh 70.
- (a) x > 4: an open (empty) circle at 4 with an arrow pointing to the right. (b) 0, 1, 2, 3.
- 5² = 4² + d², so d² = 25 − 16 = 9 and d = 3 m.
- (a) C = πd = 22/7 × 14 = 44 cm. (b) A = πr² = 22/7 × 7 × 7 = 154 cm². (c) ½ × (8 + 12) × 5 = 50 m².
- V = πr²h = 22/7 × 0.7 × 0.7 × 2 = 3.08 m³. Since 1 m³ = 1,000 litres, capacity = 3,080 litres.
- (a) 180 ÷ 2.5 = 72 km/h. (b) 72 × 1,000 ÷ 3,600 = 20 m/s. (c) 25 + 273 = 298 K.
- (a) Profit = 3,000 − 2,400 = KSh 600; 600/2,400 × 100 = 25%. (b) 10% of 1,500 = 150, so pay KSh 1,350. (c) 5/100 × 40,000 = KSh 2,000.
- Walk: 18/36 × 360° = 180°. Matatu: 12/36 × 360° = 120°. Cycle: 6/36 × 360° = 60° (total 360°).
English
Strands covered: Listening and Speaking, Reading (short story: character, simile), Grammar in Use (nouns, comparison of adjectives, phrasal verbs, subject-verb agreement, affirmative and negative sentences) and Writing.
11 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Kiswahili
8 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Integrated Science
Strands covered: Scientific Investigation (laboratory apparatus, SI units), Mixtures, Elements and Compounds (separating homogeneous mixtures, acids, bases and indicators), Living Things and Their Environment (reproductive system and adolescence, excretory system) and Force and Energy (electrical energy, magnetism).
9 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Pre-Technical Studies
Strands covered: Foundations of Pre-Technical Studies (safety), Communication in Pre-Technical Studies (drawing instruments, lines, freehand sketching), Materials for Production, and Tools and Production.
7 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Agriculture
Strands covered: Conservation of Resources (water harvesting, soil fertility), Food Production Processes (crops, pests, small animals) and Food Preservation.
7 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Social Studies
Strands covered: Social Studies and Personal Development, People and Relationships, Community Service-Learning, Natural and Historic Built Environments in Africa, and Political Development and Governance.
8 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Christian Religious Education (CRE)
Strands covered: The Bible, Creation, The Life of Jesus Christ, The Church and Christian Living. (Use the Good News Bible.) An IRE pack is planned separately.
7 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Creative Arts and Sports
Strands covered: Foundations of Creative Arts and Sports, Creating and Performing (visual arts, music, athletics and ball games) and Appreciation.
6 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Getting Ready for Grade 8
Grade 8 builds straight on this year: integers, simple and compound interest and simultaneous equations in Mathematics, and the cell, elements and compounds in Integrated Science. The Grade 7 and 8 school-based assessments count for 20% of the senior school placement score, so read school-based assessment explained and our Grade 8 guide. For quick self-marking practice, try the Grade 7 CBC Challenge. More packs are on the holiday homework hub.
Sources
- Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development, Grade 7 curriculum designs (rationalised 2024): Mathematics, Integrated Science and English (checked strand by strand); Kiswahili, Social Studies, Pre-Technical Studies, Agriculture, CRE and Creative Arts and Sports.
- Constitution of Kenya, 2010, Article 10 (national values and principles of governance).
- Basic Education Act No. 14 of 2013, section 37 (holiday tuition).
- Daily Nation, “70 days without school”, 18 October 2026.