• 7th Grade Mathematics:

    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 materials 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.

     

    Course Competencies/ Learning Objectives:

    Students who successfully complete 7th grade mathematics will be competent in the following areas:

    • Students will be able to analyze proportional relationships.
    • Students will be able to perform rational number operations.
    • Students will be able to generate equivalent expressions; solve problems using linear equations and inequalities.
    • Students will be able to understand geometric relationships; solve problems involving angles, surface area and volume.
    • Students will be able to analyze and compare populations, find probabilities of events.

    The Following Units will be Covered this Year:

    • Unit 1: Proportional Relationships: Ratios, Rates, and Circles 
    • Unit 2: Numbers and Operations: Add and Subtract Rational Numbers
    • Unit 3: Numbers and Operations: Multiply and Divide Rational Numbers
    • Unit 4: Algebraic Thinking: Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities
    • Unit 5: Proportional Reasoning: Percents and Statistical Samples
    • Unit 6: Geometry: Solids, Triangles, and Angles
    • Unit 7: Probability: Theoretical Probability, Experimental Probability, and Compound Events