Five critical areas of instruction in Accelerated Math 7 are:

1. Solving problems that involve scale drawings and informal geometric constructions and working with two- and three-dimensional shapes to solve problems involving area, surface area, and volume

2. Drawing inferences about populations based on samples

3. Formulating and reasoning about expressions and equations, including modeling an association in bivariate data with a linear equation, as well as solving linear equations and systems of linear equations

4. Grasping the concept of a function and using functions to describe quantitative relationships

5. Analyzing two- and three-dimensional space and figures using distance, angle, similarity, and congruence, and understanding and applying the Pythagorean Theorem

(California Mathematics Framework, 2013, p. 327 & p.371)