Overview
Students will work within five major content clusters: ratios and proportional relationships, the number system, expressions and equations, geometry, and statistics and probability. A huge focus in 7th grade math is for students to apply concepts to real world situations in an automatic and systematic way. Students will analyze and solve problems using proportional relationships. To do so, students will compute unit rates and identify the constant of proportionality in multiple forms. Within the number system, students will add, subtract, multiply, and divide all rational numbers (including fractions, decimals, and negatives). These operations should be displayed on a number line model with a focus on absolute value of these integers. Students will use variables to construct simple equations and inequalities to solve problems. There will be an emphasis to negative numbers as students rewrite expressions in different forms. In regards to drawing, constructing, and describing geometrical figures; students will solve problems involving scale drawings. They will also use rulers, protractors, geometry, and freehand to create shapes given certain conditions. Students will be given formulas to complete area, circumference, volume, and surface area of 2D and 3D shapes. Students will use random sampling to draw inferences about a population. Finally, students will determine probabilities of simple and compound events using multiple strategies.