Math I is designed for students to learn math through engaging, forward-thinking content. The Math Visions Project classroom experience does not look like the traditional mathematics classroom. In the MVP classroom the teacher launches a rich task and then encourages students to explore, question, ponder, discuss their ideas and actively listen to the ideas of their classmates. In this way, the teacher connects the Eight Mathematical Practices to the content. 

Homework assignments are organized into three parts--Ready, Set, and Go! As students develop their mathematical skills, there are many math problems they should be able to do whenever they encounter them. The procedures for solving them become automatic. Students should be able to take off and "Go!" with them.

This is how students learn mathematics. They learn by doing mathematics. They learn by needing mathematics. They learn by verbalizing the way they see the mathematical ideas connect and by listening to how their peers perceived the problem. Students then own the mathematics because it is a collective body of knowledge that they have developed over time through guided exploration. This process describes the Learning Cycle and it informs how teaching should be conducted within the classroom.

Competencies:

Student deepens and extends understanding of linear relationships, in part by contrasting them with exponential and quadratic phenomena, and in part by applying linear models to data that exhibit a linear trend.

Student can summarize, represent, and interpret data on a single count or measurement variable.

Student can extend geometric experiences to explore more complex geometric situations and deepen their explanations of geometric relationships, moving towards formal mathematical arguments.

The Standards for Mathematical Practice apply throughout the course and, together with the content standards, require that students experience mathematics as a coherent, useful, and logical subject that makes use of their ability to make sense of problem situations.

This course fulfills the North Carolina high school graduation requirement for NC Math 1. The final exam is the NC Math 1 End-of-Course test and it will be averaged as 20% of the overall grade for the course. 7th Grade students will also be required to take the Math 7 EOG. We will do plenty of review for both!