What to Expect This Year

6th 

• Ratios and Proportional Relationships

  • Using proportional relationships to solve real-world and mathematical problems

• The Number System

  • Fraction and decimal operations

  • Finding and utilizing greatest common factors/least common multiples

  • Rational numbers

• Expressions and Equations

  • Solving single variable equations and inequalities (both single and multi-step)

  • Representing and analyzing quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables

• Geometric Reasoning

  • Area, surface area, volume

• Statistics and Probability

  • Understanding statistical variability

  • Summarizing and describing data distributions

7th/8th Pre-Algebra

• Algebraic Reasoning

  • Laws of exponents and operational properties

  • Solving multi-step linear equations and inequalities with rational coefficients

  • Proportional relationships

  • Finding and graphing slope

  • Solving and representing systems of equations 

• Statistics and Probability

  • Constructing and describing scatter plots and line graphs

  • Calculating probability of single and repeated experiments

• Functions

  • Determining if a relationship is a function

  • Identifying linear functions

  • Finding domain and range of a function

• Geometric Reasoning

  • Using the Pythagorean Theorem

  • Using the Triangle Inequality Theorem

  • Identifying and calculating supplementary, complementary, vertical, and adjacent angles

  • Using algebraic expressions to solve for missing angles

  • Transformations

• The Number System

  • Operations using scientific notation

  • Exponents and radicals

8th Algebra 1

• Algebraic Reasoning

  • Creating equations, expressions, and inequalities from real-world scenarios

  • Rearranging equations or formulas to isolate specific variables

  • Polynomial operations

  • Linear equations and functions

  • Quadratic functions

  • Absolute value equations

  • Exponential functions

  • Systems of equations

• Statistics and Probability

  • Interpreting data distributions

  • Correlation vs causation

  • Finding a linear association in data

  • Frequency tables

• Functions

  • Determining function type

  • Determining inputs and outputs of a function

  • Calculating rate of change

  • Comparing features of functions

  • Simple and compound interest

• Number Systems

  • Laws and properties of exponents

  • Operations with radicals

Tests/Projects - 70% of grade

Homework/Classwork - 30% of grade