Eagle’s Landing Middle School

7th Grade Math Syllabus

2014-2015

This is a rigorous class and will require student participation, discussion, investigation and asking questions.

Performance Based Grading: students will be assessed on each standard; which may be found at

Students will be given multiple opportunities to show mastery of the various standards covered throughout the year. Final grades for each semester are cumulative and will be calculated using the following percentages:

Grading Policies

Assessments 85%

Final Exam15%(unit exams)

Pacing Guide

This pacing schedule is a guide and may change as needed; throughout the year we practice for standardized tests, writing assessment and will take benchmark assessments.

First Semester:

Unit 1Operations with Rational Numbers (MCC7NS1, MCC7NS2, MCC7NS3)

Unit 2Expressions and Equations (MCC7EE1, MCC7EE2, MCC7EE3, MCC7EE4a-b)

Unit 3aRatios and Proportional Relationships (MCC7RP1,MCC7RP2,MCC7RP3,MCC7G1)

Second Semester:

Unit 3bRatios and Proportional Relationships (MCC7RP1,MCC7RP2,MCC7RP3,MCC7G1)

Unit 4 Inferences (MCC7SP1, MCC7SP2, MCC7SP3, MCC7SP4)

Unit 5Geometry (MCC7G2, MCC7G3, MCC7G4, MCC7G5, MCC7G6)

Unit 6Probability (MCC7SP5, MCC7SP6, MCC7SP7a, MCC7SP7b, MCC7SP8a-c)

Unit 7Show What We Know (All Standards/Elements)

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Course Requirements: Regular attendance is expected in this course along with class participation. Class activities and discussions are valuable for test performance and cannot be recovered once they are missed due to absence. If you are absent, it is YOUR responsibility to check, get notes and assignments missed. Please refer to the student handbook for grace period permitted for make-up assignments. Each day come prepared.

**You are required to keep all graded assessment; they are a valuable resource.**

Homework: Students will receive homework on a daily basis and on weekends, even if it is just to study. You are encouraged to make friends and study groups for discussing homework. Homework will not be graded. The most obvious presumed benefit of homework is, of course, that it will improve students' understanding and retention of the material covered.

Standards for Mathematical Practice

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

4. Model with mathematics.

5. Use appropriate tools strategically.

6. Attend to precision.

7. Look for and make use of structure.

8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Students are expected to be active participants in their learning. Please ask questions!!!!

I have high expectations and I am confident that working together we can achieve success!

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