• Course Description

     

    Effective mathematics education provides students with a balanced instructional program.  In such a program, students become proficient in basic computational skills and procedures, develop conceptual understandings, and become skilled at problem solving.  Standards-based mathematics instruction starts with basic material and increases in scope and content as the years progress.  Similar to an inverted pyramid, where the entire weight of the developing subject, including readiness for algebra, rests on the foundation built in the early grades.

     

    In Grade 7, instructional time will focus on four critical areas: developing an understanding and applying of proportional relationships; developing an understanding of operations with rational numbers; working with expressions and linear equations; solving problems involving scale drawings and informal geometric constructions; working with two-and three dimensional shapes to solve problems involving area, surface area, and volume; and drawing inferences about population based on samples.

  • Required Materials

    Pencils (lots!)

    3-Ring Binder (1 or 1.5 inches)

    3 Binder Dividers

    Loose Leaf Paper

    TI-30IIXS Scientific Calculator or other similar version (suggested)