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February 8, 2019 - 7th Grade Announcements

  • Wednesday - Friday, 3/13 - 3/15, NatureBridge Trip in Olympic National Park. More information (including packing list and participant forms) will be coming soon!
  • Monday, 3/25, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. at SGS - Washington DC Trip Adult Meeting. If your student is attending the DC trip, you will receive details about the itinerary, make sure all necessary forms are completed, and have the opportunity to ask more questions about the trip.

7th Grade Math

By Shannon

Lines! 7th grade winter term begins looking at linear trends. Students explore graphs, tables, tile patterns, and y=mx+b equations. As an introductory activity, we bridge students’ understanding of solving and simplifying expressions in order to write and notice linear growth. We used Pentomino tiles to find sums on a hundreds chart. To look more at this activity, you can look at your student's OneNote, in the Content Library, under Unit 4 - Linear Growth. Have them show you!

Students then begin exploring graphs and tables to find patterns between x and y, try to answer the question, “How can we write equations for these patterns?” Students were then introduced to ‘y=mx+b’ form. We defined the terms “slope” and “y-intercept” and learned how to find them in both tables and graphs. Once comfortable identifying and writing equations, we learned how to create graphs and produce tables based on a given equation. You can find these ‘y=mx+b’ notes in the Content Library > Unit 4 - linear growth.