On this site:

• Detailed plans to spiral Grade 7 and 8 mathematics, complete with activities, check-ins, and aligned to MathUp (scroll down).

• Excellent Resources to further support your mathematics teaching.

• Detailed support for Financial Literacy, Coding, and Social/Emotional Learning.

Resource Background Information

SPIRALING & OVERVIEW

Why spiral? Research shows that “spiraling”, also known as interleaving, helps learners retain more information over longer periods of time. (Jenkins, 2012 & 2013) With regular, spaced review of concepts and practice of skills, the act of remembering what has been learned becomes easier. (Allison, 2014) Spiraling is one way to embed spaced practice into the math curriculum. This document shows one possible attempt at spiraling the Grade 7 Mathematics curriculum. Each cycle, instead of unit, has content from each of the curriculum strands. The main thrust of each cycle is listed in the “Big Ideas” section. There are 6 cycles, and each cycle is suggested to take place over roughly 6 weeks. As you progress through the course, it is intended that you revisit previous ideas and build upon them in the next cycle. This course outline takes approximately 36 weeks to complete as written, however, it might take longer than anticipated to complete any given activity. We expect that teachers will begin the course with some activities that are meant to foster a safe, positive learning environment, along with establishing routines. There is considerable flexibility built in to add assessment days and review/preview days with approximately 42 weeks of study in a school year.

REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT

Teachers are encouraged to set aside a few lessons at the end of each cycle for a review lesson and time for a culminating task meant to assess a variety of concepts covered in the cycle. The review class should focus upon both review of concepts and discussions and activities that help to draw connections between concepts where applicable. Assessment Question Banks are in production, and will be added as they are available.

FORMATTING OF FILES & G-SUITE

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