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Tentative Course Schedule
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There are a number of topics that I will expect most students to have a good understanding of from 6th & 7th Grade. These would be good concepts to review over the summer. If you need any help or resources for these, please contact me:
- All 4 operations with fractions (adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing)
- All 4 operations with positive & negative integers
- Formulas for area & perimeter (circumference) of rectangles, triangles, circles, trapezoids
- Multiplication tables through 12’s
- How to make a complete graph (title, axis labels, appropriate scales)
- Solving simple, one-step equations (such as X+7=32 or 22-X=13)
Here is a list of topics that we will be covering in 8th Grade:
- Square root & Cube root
- Scientific Notation
- Law of Exponents
- Irrational Numbers
- Slope
- Solving multi-step equations
- Linear equations (graphs, tables, equations, patterns)
- Systems of Linear Equations
- Direct and Inverse Variation, Correlation, Standard Deviation
- Nonlinear equations – Exponential and Quadratic relationships
- Linear inequalities
- Functions
- Scatter plots, fitted lines, equations, and residuals
- Transformations (rotation, reflection, translation, dilation)
- Similar and congruent figures
- Pythagorean Theorem
- Volume and Surface Area of 3-D shapes
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