Embedded Files
Math Curriculum - 6-8 Competencies - Adopted June 2022.pdfIn Math 6, instructional time should focus on four critical areas:
1. Connecting ratio and rate to whole number multiplication and division and using concepts of ratio and rate to solve problems;
2. Completing understanding of division of fractions and extending the notion of number to the system of rational numbers, which includes negative numbers;
3. Writing, interpreting, and using expressions and equations; and
4. Developing understanding of statistical thinking.
Math 7 is for students to extend and apply many of the concepts they have learned in the previous year, to discover new types of relationships, new and efficient ways to solve problems, and new ways to analyze and look at data and associations. Students will investigate proportional relationships and use this understanding to solve real-world problems involving discounts, interest, taxes, and scale drawings. Building off their understanding of integers, students will apply the properties of operations to all rational numbers in order to efficiently and thoughtfully work with the number system, including how it applies to expressions and equations.
In Math 8, students make several advances in their algebraic reasoning, particularly as it relates to linear equations. Students extend their understanding of proportional relationships to include all linear equations, and they consider what a “solution” looks like when it applies to a linear equation. They learn that linear equations can be a useful representation to model bivariate data and to make predictions. Lastly, students study figures, lines, and angles in two-dimensional and three-dimensional space, investigating how these figures move, and how they are measured. This course prepares students to take Algebra 1.
Middle School Math Lab is for any middle school student struggling to achieve math success. The goal of this course is to help students be successful with minimum intervention. Math Lab provides students with individualized instruction designed to support success in completing mathematics content. It will relate and reinforce mathematic skills students have learned previously, fill in gaps and misconceptions of previous content, and present the current content in concrete and hands-on methods. Completion of this course will place the student in current grade-level math or higher.
Page updated
Report abuse