I'm on a mission to make middle school math MAKE SENSE and to help your child have a little fun along the way.  I enjoy building relationships with my students and use strategies that appeal to visual and kinesthetic learners, incorporating a lot of movement and visuals.  Learners have more fun and learn more if they are active participants in class, so my expectation is that each child will participate in some fashion (movement, out loud, through the chat).  Practice is necessary but shouldn't be boring, so I often use games and small group work (break out rooms) as ways for learners to gain confidence with new skills.  Classkick will be used in class as a way for students to independently practice a skill and allow me to provide students with feedback.  Blooket and Gimkit will be used in some classes to play games to practice new skills.  None of these programs require a log in, student account, or email address.

This fast-paced ongoing class is designed to cover all the standards/skills in the 7th grade math curriculum (as laid out by Common Core State Standards) in 42 lessons.  While using CCSS as a guide to make the course more universal, the class will focus on the standards, not necessarily the strategies (unless they are helpful in building a conceptual understanding of the skill).  Each class will focus on a specific skill and learners will be provided with follow up materials (worksheets or online resources) for extra practice.  I am happy to provide feedback for follow up assignments but due to the drop-in nature of ongoing classes, questions will need to be addressed through learner messages, not in the next class. There will be no formal assessments/grades given.  Parents should determine mastery based on how students do with their independent work/follow up assignments.  Class materials will be created by me or copyrighted materials which I have permission to share.  This is a great course for students that work well at an accelerated pace.

If you have a question about whether your child is ready for a specific skill, please message me to ask what the pre-requisite knowledge is as there will not be time to do an in-depth review the sixth grade standards.  

Each class is 90 minutes and will have a 2-minute movement/stretch break planned.  The course is split into six units.  There will be one live meeting each week with breaks around major U.S. holidays (Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas).  

UNIT 1 – Ratios & Proportions – 5 weeks
Aug. 22 – Lesson 1: Ratios, rates, and the constant of proportionality
Aug. 29 – Lesson 2: Representing proportional relationships with equations, in tables, and in graphs
Sept. 5 – Lesson 3: Proportional vs. non-proportional relationships
Sept. 12 – Lesson 4: Finding unit rate and setting up a proportion
Sept. 19 – Lesson 5: Multi-step problem solving using proportional reasoning

UNIT 2 - Rational Number Operations - 5 weeks
Sept. 26 – Lesson 6: Compare & order rational numbers / Add rational numbers
Oct. 3 – Lesson 7: Subtract rational numbers
Oct. 10 – Lesson 8: Add & subtract rational numbers using properties of operations
Oct. 17 – Lesson 9: Multiply & divide rational numbers
Oct. 24 – Lesson 10: Convert rational numbers to decimals / Problem solving with rational numbers & all four operations

UNIT 3 - Algebraic Expressions, Equations & Inequalities - 11 weeks
Oct. 31 – Lesson 11: Write and evaluate expressions with rational numbers using the order of operations
Nov. 7 – Lesson 12: Expand and factor expressions the using distributive property and GCF / Expand & factor expressions with negative rational numbers
Nov. 14 – Lesson 13: Add, subtract, and simplify expressions by combining like terms
Nov. 21 - Lesson 14: Simplify expressions by combining like terms, using the distributive property, and properties of operations
Nov. 28 – NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING 
Dec. 5 – Lesson 15: Solve multi-step real-world problems with rational numbers & use estimates to check reasonability
Dec. 12 – Lesson 16: Solve one-step equations with rational numbers
Dec. 19 – Lesson 17: Solve multi-step equations with rational numbers
Dec. 26 – NO CLASS - WINTER BREAK
Jan. 2 – Lesson 18: Use equations to solve multi-step word problems
Jan. 9 – Lesson 19: Solve and graph one-step inequalities
Jan. 16 – Lesson 20: Solve multi-step inequalities / Solve inequalities with negative coefficients
Jan. 23 – Lesson 21: Use inequalities to solve multi-step word problems

UNIT 4 - Percents & Scale - 7 weeks
Jan. 30 - Lesson 22: Convert between fractions, decimals, and percents / Solve problems mentally with benchmark percents / Find the percent of a number
Feb. 6 - Lesson 23: Use the percent formula to find the whole and part
Feb. 13 - Lesson 24: Solve problems using percent increase/decrease
Feb. 20 - Lesson 25: Apply percent increase/decrease formula to real-world situations
Feb. 27 - Lesson 26: Solve real-world percent problems (discount, tax, tip, simple interest, commission, etc.)
Mar. 6 - Lesson 27: Define and identify scale and scale factor / Use scale factor to determine actual measurements
Mar. 13 - Lesson 28: Compute actual area from scale drawings / Create scale drawings

UNIT 5 - Geometry - 8 weeks
Mar. 20 - Lesson 29: Angle relationships (complementary, supplementary, vertical) / Find missing angle measurements / Use equations to solve for unknown angles
Mar. 27 - Lesson 30: Parts of a circle / Solving circumference problems
Apr. 3 - Lesson 31: Solving area of a circle problems
Apr. 10 - Lesson 32: Real-world problem solving involving circumference and area of a circle
Apr. 17 - NO CLASS - SPRING BREAK
Apr. 24 - Lesson 33: Draw 2-dimensional shapes / Determine if conditions describe more than one triangle, a unique triangle, or no triangle
May 1 - Lesson 34: Analyze 3-dimensional figure slices / Find surface area of right prisms and right pyramids
May 8 - Lesson 35: Find volume of right prisms and right pyramids
May 15 - Lesson 36: Solve problems involving surface area and volume

UNIT 6 - Probability & Statistics - 6 weeks
May 22 - Lesson 37: Understand probability / Define sample space / Find experimental probability of simple events
May 29 - Lesson 38: Find theoretical probability / Conduct simulations to model real-world situations
June 5 - Lesson 39: Find probabilities of compound events / Theoretical vs. experimental probabilities / Conduct simulations
June 12 - Lesson 40: Identify populations and sample populations / Describe sampling methods and generate a random sample
June 19 - Lesson 41: Analyze sets using measures of center and variability / Estimate population proportions using sample data
June 26 - Lesson 42: Compare populations by analyzing data / Find the mean and MAD of samples