Rhode Island- Mathematics: Grades 5-8

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1: Number Sense and Number Systems

1.1: Have an intuitive understanding of rational numbers.

Fraction, Decimal, Percent (Area and Grid Models)

1.3: Represent and use numbers (integers, fractions, decimals, exponents, and scientific notation).

Fraction Artist 1 (Area Models of Fractions)
 Fraction Artist 2 (Area Models of Fractions)
 Treasure Hunter (Decimals on the Number Line)

1.4: Represent and apply ratios, proportions, and percents.

Beam to Moon (Ratios and Proportions)
 Estimating Population Size
 Part:Part and Part:Whole Ratios
 Percents and Proportions
 Polling: Neighborhood
 Proportions and Common Multipliers

1.6: Demonstrate the composition and decomposition of numbers (primes, factors, and multiples).

Factor Trees (Factoring Numbers)
 Finding Factors with Area Models

1.7: Investigate and represent number relations, using various types of graphs.

Introduction to Functions

2: Computation and Estimation

2.1: Develop proficiency with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of rational numbers.

Dividing Fractions
 Dividing Mixed Numbers
 Multiplying Decimals (Area Model)
 Multiplying Fractions
 Multiplying Mixed Numbers
 Multiplying with Decimals
 Sums and Differences with Decimals

2.2: Create, analyze, and communicate procedures for computation and strategies for estimation.

Estimating Population Size
 Estimating Sums and Differences

2.3: Develop and communicate an understanding for solving proportions.

Estimating Population Size

3: Measurement

3.1: Develop formulas or procedures to solve problems involving perimeter, area, capacity, angle measurement, and weight and mass.

Area of Parallelograms - Activity A
 Fido's Flower Bed (Perimeter and Area)
 Perimeter, Circumference, and Area - Activity B
 Rectangle: Perimeter and Area

3.3: Select and use appropriate units and tools to measure.

Triple Beam Balance

3.4: Develop concepts of rate (miles per hour, feet per second) and other derived and indirect measurements.

Distance-Time Graphs
 Distance-Time and Velocity-Time Graphs

4: Statistics and Probability

4.1: Construct and interpret tables, graphs, and charts.

Graphing Skills
 Histograms
 Mascot Election (Pictographs and Bar Graphs)
 Reaction Time 1 (Graphs and Statistics)
 Reaction Time 2 (Graphs and Statistics)

4.2: Analyze data to formulate reasonable predications and convincing arguments based on the analysis of data.

Reaction Time 2 (Graphs and Statistics)

4.3: Recognize and use the measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode, range).

Describing Data Using Statistics
 Line Plots
 Mean, Median and Mode
 Movie Reviewer (Mean and Median)
 Reaction Time 1 (Graphs and Statistics)
 Reaction Time 2 (Graphs and Statistics)

4.4: Use probability and statistics to make informed decisions in real-life situations.

Geometric Probability - Activity A
 Spin the Big Wheel! (Probability)

4.5: Design and carry out experiments or simulations to determine probability.

Geometric Probability - Activity A
 Probability Simulations
 Spin the Big Wheel! (Probability)
 Theoretical and Experimental Probability

4.6: Communicate conclusions based on analysis of data.

Reaction Time 2 (Graphs and Statistics)

5: Patterns, Relations, and Algebra

5.1: Identify, analyze, extend, and create patterns in different formats.

Arithmetic Sequences
 Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences
 Finding Patterns
 Geometric Sequences
 Pattern Flip (Patterns)

5.2: Describe and represent relations through different formats (tables, graphs, verbal rules, open sentences, equations, and geometry).

Graphing Skills
 Introduction to Functions
 Mascot Election (Pictographs and Bar Graphs)
 Using Tables, Rules and Graphs

5.4: Use patterns and functions to represent and solve problems.

Arithmetic Sequences
 Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences
 Geometric Sequences
 Introduction to Functions
 Linear Functions
 Pattern Flip (Patterns)
 Using Algebraic Equations
 Using Tables, Rules and Graphs

5.5: Use concepts of variable, expression, and equation.

Road Trip (Problem Solving)
 Using Algebraic Equations
 Using Algebraic Expressions

5.6: Analyze tables, graphs, rules, equations, and identify relationships.

Cubic Function Activity
 Distance-Time Graphs
 Distance-Time and Velocity-Time Graphs
 Elevator Operator (Line Graphs)
 Exponential Functions - Activity A
 Fourth-Degree Polynomials - Activity A
 Linear Functions
 Quadratic and Absolute Value Functions
 Quadratics in Factored Form
 Quadratics in Polynomial Form - Activity A
 Radical Functions
 Rational Functions
 Using Tables, Rules and Graphs

5.7: Solve linear equations.

Modeling One-Step Equations - Activity A
 Modeling and Solving Two-Step Equations
 Road Trip (Problem Solving)
 Solving Equations By Graphing Each Side
 Solving Two-Step Equations

6: Geometry

6.1: Identify, describe, classify, and compare two- and three-dimensional geometric figures.

Classifying Quadrilaterals - Activity A
 Classifying Triangles
 Congruence in Right Triangles
 Parallelogram Conditions
 Prisms and Cylinders - Activity A
 Proving Triangles Congruent
 Pyramids and Cones - Activity A
 Special Quadrilaterals
 Surface and Lateral Area of Pyramids and Cones

6.2: Explore the transformations of geometric figures (translation, rotation, and reflection).

Dilations
 Quilting Bee (Symmetry)
 Reflections
 Rock Art (Transformations)
 Rotations, Reflections and Translations
 Translations

Correlation last revised: 11/13/2008

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