Curriculum Overview Seventh Grade

Grade 7

• Shapes and Designs: Two Dimensional Geometry
• Polygons, measurement of angles, angle sum of polygons, conditions for unique triangle, parallel lines and transversals.
• Accentuate the Negative: Integers and Rational Numbers
• Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of rational numbers, absolute value, opposites, order of operations, distributive property.
• Stretching and Shrinking: Understanding Similarity
• Enlarging a figure, effect of scale factors on perimeter and area, coordinate rules, ratios between and within similar figures; using similarity to find measures.
• Comparing and Scaling: Ratios, Rates, Percent, Proportions
• Ratios, unit rate, rate tables, constant of proportionality, solving proportions, Inc. markups, discounts, commission, measurement, conversion.
• Moving Straight Ahead: Linear Relationships
• Representing linear relationships in graphs, tables, equations; solving linear equations; slope, intercept, writing equation for linear relationship given points.
• What Do You Expect: Probability and Expected Value
• Probability models, experimental and theoretical probability, analysis of compound events.
• Filing and Wrapping: Three Dimensional Measurement
• Area circumference of circle; volume and surface area of rectangular and polygonal prisms, cylinders; volume of pyramids, cones, spheres; plane sections of prisms, pyramids; effect of scaling on surface area and volume.
• Samples and Populations: Making Comparisons and Predictions
• Sampling plans, effect of sample size, predicting population statistics, simulations, comparing sample statistics to draw inferences about two populations.