What we are learning...
1st Quarter
Number Systems
Big Ideas in this Unit:
- Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals
- Divide multi-digit numbers
- Divide fractions
- Extend understanding of numbers to include negative numbers
- Ordering and absolute value
- Graphing in all four quadrants
- Finding the distance between two points
2nd Quarter
Expressions & Equations
Big Ideas for this Unit:
- Use order of operations to evaluate expressions, including exponents
- GCF/LCM
- Write, read, and evaluate expressions with variables
- Identify key vocabulary terms, such as term, coefficient, variable, sum, factor, quotient, etc.
- Evaluate formulas for a given value (area, perimeter, volume, surface area)
- Use properties to create equivalent expressions and determine when two expressions are equivalent
- Solve one-step equations and inequalities
- Write equations and inequalities from word problems
- Identify dependent and independent variables and write two-variable equations from word problems
3rd Quarter
Ratios & Proportions
Big Ideas for this Unit:
- Use ratio language to describe the relationship between two quantities
- Find the unit rate of two ratios (miles per hour, cost per ounce, etc.)
- Use tables and graphs to describe a ratio relationship
- Find the percent of a quantity
- Convert units of measurement using proportions
4th Quarter
Geometry
Big Ideas in this Unit:
- Find the area of right triangles, parallelograms, trapezoids, rectangles, and squares
- Find the volume of right rectangular prisms with fractional edge lengths
- Draw polygons on the coordinate plane
- Find surface are of a 3D shape using its net
Statistics & Probability
Big Ideas in this Unit:
- Understand that statistical questions are about variability
- Calculate mean, median, mode, and range and interpret these values as measures of center and spread
- Be able to display a set of data on a dot plot, box plot, pie chart, or stem plot
- Relate the shape of a graph to the distribution of data it represents