By the end of grade seven, students are adept at manipulating numbers and equations and understand the general principles at work. Students understand and operate with integers. They solve problems in which they compute the surface area and volume of basic three-dimensional objects. Students make conversions between units of measurement. They know and use different representations of fractional numbers (fractions, decimals, and percents) and are proficient at changing from one to another. They increase their facility with ratio and proportion, compute percents of increase and decrease, and compute simple interest. They graph linear functions and understand the idea of slope and its relation to ratio.
These accelerated pre-algebra courses continue educating the student in the areas of algebraic expressions and integers, solving one-step equations, decimals and fractions, factors, exponents, operations with fractions, ratios, proportions and percents. The course introduces linear functions and graphing, spatial thinking, probability, extends the concepts of area and volume, right triangles in Algebra and nonlinear functions and working with algebraic expressions. This course is intended to prepare the students for Algebra 1. Students MUST maintain a B throughout the year. Prerequisite: an 85% average in 6 accelerated/6 High and/or teacher recommendation.