Math Sequence at Lawrence Intermediate School

Beginning in sixth grade, there are two math courses available to students: Math 6 and Math 6 Accelerated. Both courses provide an opportunity for students to engage in rigorous content at a high level. However, due to the pace, Math 6 Accelerated includes additional enrichment opportunities that reflect some of the seventh grade New Jersey Student Learning Standards for math. Some of the seventh grade content that students explore include:

Apply and extend previous understandings of operations with fractions.

• Identify and use properties of addition and multiplication

• Compare and order integers, and find the absolute value of an expression

• Describe situations in which opposite quantities combine to make zero

• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide integers

• Simplify fractions using GCF

• Write fractions and decimals and decimals as fractions

Analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems.

• Write ratios as fractions and find unit rates through equivalent fractions, tables, and graphs

• Use ratios and proportions to solve problems, including scale and conversions

• Test proportional relationships using equivalent ratios in a table or graph

• Write decimals and fractions as percents and vice versa

Use properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions and solve real-life and mathematical problems using numerical and algebraic expressions and equations.

• Use the Distributive Property to simplify expressions

• Solve equations using the Properties of Equality

• Write and solve two-step equations

• Use formulas to solve real-world and geometry problems

• Solve equations containing rational numbers

• Solve equations with variables on each side and with grouping symbols

• Write and graph inequalities

• Solve inequalities using the Properties of Inequalities