6th grade math builds on the skills that students learned in elementary school. Instructional time will focus on four critical areas: connecting ratio and rate to whole number multiplication and division and using concepts of ratio and rate to solve problems; completing understanding of division of fractions and extending the notion of numbers to the system of rational numbers, which includes negative numbers; writing, interpreting, and using expressions and equations; and developing understanding of statistical thinking. There are eight units completed in 6th grade math: (1) Geometry (area, surface area and volume); (2) Numerical Expressions and Factors; (3) Fractions and Decimals; (4) Ratios and Rates; (5) Percents; (6) Algebraic Expressions; (7) Integers and the Coordinate Plane; (8) Equations and Inequalities.

The Math Connections class will build and expand on the mathematics students learned in the elementary grades. Students are evaluated through both project-based and traditional assessments and will be challenged with various statistical analysis techniques. Day to day instructional time will focus on the following critical areas: Estimation and Basic Operations, Statistical Measures, Data Displays, Operations with Fractions and Decimals, Samples and Populations, Geometric Figures, Percents, and Probability. There are eight units completed in Math Connections, some of which offer review while other topics present new concepts: (1) Estimation and Order of Operations; (2) Statistical Measures; (3) Data Displays; (4) Fractions and Decimals; (5) Samples and Populations; (6) Geometry; (7) Percents; (8) Probability.

7th grade math builds on the skills that students learned in grade 6. Instructional time will focus on the following critical areas: developing understanding of and applying proportional relationships; developing understanding of operations with rational numbers and working with expressions and linear equations; and solving problems involving scale drawings and informal geometric constructions, and working with two- and three-dimensional shapes to solve problems involving area, surface area, and volume. There are eight units completed in 7th grade math: (1) Geometry (circles and composite figures); (2) Geometry (surface area and volume); (3) Operations with Rational Numbers; (4) Algebraic Expressions; (5) Equations and Inequalities; (6) Ratios and Proportions; (7) Percents; (8) Geometry (angles and polygons).

8th grade math will be an introduction to topics needed for Algebra I and future high school courses. Instructional time will focus on the following critical areas: formulating and reasoning about expressions and equations, including modeling an association in bivariate data with a linear equation and solving linear equations and systems of linear equations; grasping the concept of a function and using functions to describe quantitative relationships; and analyzing two- and three-dimensional space and figures using distance, angle, similarity, and congruence, and understanding and applying the Pythagorean Theorem. There are eight units completed in 8th grade math: (1) Solving Equations; (2) Geometry (transformations); (3) Linear Equations; (4) The Real Number System; (5) Geometry (angles and triangles); (6) Systems of Linear Equations; (7) Exponents and Scientific Notation; (8) Functions.

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