Course of Study
PR.1: Students will… Calculate unit rates of length, area, and other quantities measured in like or different units that include ratios or fractions.
Beam to Moon (Ratios and Proportions)
Road Trip (Problem Solving)
Unit Conversions
PR.2: Students will… Represent a relationship between two quantities and determine whether the two quantities are related proportionally.
PR.2.a: Use equivalent ratios displayed in a table or in a graph of the relationship in the coordinate plane to determine whether a relationship between two quantities is proportional.
PR.2.b: Identify the constant of proportionality (unit rate) and express the proportional relationship using multiple representations including tables, graphs, equations, diagrams, and verbal descriptions.
PR.2.c: Explain in context the meaning of a point (x, y) on the graph of a proportional relationship, with special attention to the points (0, 0) and (1, r) where r is the unit rate.
PR.3: Students will… Solve multi-step percent problems in context using proportional reasoning, including simple interest, tax, gratuities, commissions, fees, markups and markdowns, percent increase, and percent decrease.
Fraction, Decimal, Percent (Area and Grid Models)
Percent of Change
Percents, Fractions, and Decimals
NO.4: Students will… Apply and extend knowledge of operations of whole numbers, fractions, and decimals to add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational numbers including integers, signed fractions, and decimals.
NO.4.a: Identify and explain situations where the sum of opposite quantities is 0 and opposite quantities are defined as additive inverses.
Adding and Subtracting Integers
Adding and Subtracting Integers with Chips
Integers, Opposites, and Absolute Values
Rational Numbers, Opposites, and Absolute Values
NO.4.b: Interpret the sum of two or more rational numbers, by using a number line and in real-world contexts.
Adding and Subtracting Integers
Adding on the Number Line
NO.4.c: Explain subtraction of rational numbers as addition of additive inverses.
Adding and Subtracting Integers
NO.4.d: Use a number line to demonstrate that the distance between two rational numbers on the number line is the absolute value of their difference, and apply this principle in real-world contexts.
Adding and Subtracting Integers
Adding on the Number Line
NO.4.e: Extend strategies of multiplication to rational numbers to develop rules for multiplying signed numbers, showing that the properties of the operations are preserved.
Adding and Subtracting Integers
NO.4.g: Convert a rational number to a decimal using long division, explaining that the decimal form of a rational number terminates or eventually repeats.
Fraction, Decimal, Percent (Area and Grid Models)
NO.5: Students will… Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving the four operations of rational numbers, including complex fractions. Apply properties of operations as strategies where applicable.
Adding and Subtracting Integers
Adding on the Number Line
Dividing Fractions
Dividing Mixed Numbers
Fractions Greater than One (Fraction Tiles)
Fractions with Unlike Denominators
Improper Fractions and Mixed Numbers
Multiplying Mixed Numbers
Multiplying with Decimals
AF.6: Students will… Apply properties of operations as strategies to add, subtract, factor, and expand linear expressions with rational coefficients.
Equivalent Algebraic Expressions I
Equivalent Algebraic Expressions II
Simplifying Algebraic Expressions I
Simplifying Algebraic Expressions II
AF.7: Students will… Generate expressions in equivalent forms based on context and explain how the quantities are related.
Simplifying Algebraic Expressions I
Simplifying Algebraic Expressions II
AF.8: Students will… Solve multi-step real-world and mathematical problems involving rational numbers (integers, signed fractions and decimals), converting between forms as needed. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies.
Adding Fractions (Fraction Tiles)
Adding and Subtracting Integers
Adding on the Number Line
Dividing Fractions
Dividing Mixed Numbers
Estimating Sums and Differences
Fractions Greater than One (Fraction Tiles)
Improper Fractions and Mixed Numbers
Multiplying Fractions
Multiplying Mixed Numbers
Multiplying with Decimals
Percents, Fractions, and Decimals
Sums and Differences with Decimals
AF.9: Students will… Use variables to represent quantities in real-world or mathematical problems and construct algebraic expressions, equations, and inequalities to solve problems by reasoning about the quantities.
AF.9.a: Solve word problems leading to equations of the form px + q = r and p(x + q) = r, where p, q, and r are specific rational numbers. Solve equations of these forms fluently. Compare an algebraic solution to an arithmetic solution, identifying the sequence of the operations used in each approach.
Modeling and Solving Two-Step Equations
Solving Algebraic Equations II
Solving Two-Step Equations
AF.9.b: Solve word problems leading to inequalities of the form px + q > r or px + q < r, where p, q, and r are specific rational numbers. Graph the solution set of the inequality, and interpret it in the context of the problem.
Solving Linear Inequalities in One Variable
DSP.10: Students will… Examine a sample of a population to generalize information about the population.
Polling: City
Polling: Neighborhood
Populations and Samples
DSP.10.a: Differentiate between a sample and a population.
Polling: City
Polling: Neighborhood
Populations and Samples
DSP.10.b: Compare sampling techniques to determine whether a sample is random and thus representative of a population, explaining that random sampling tends to produce representative samples and support valid inferences.
Polling: City
Polling: Neighborhood
Populations and Samples
DSP.10.c: Determine whether conclusions and generalizations can be made about a population based on a sample.
Polling: City
Polling: Neighborhood
Populations and Samples
DSP.10.d: Use data from a random sample to draw inferences about a population with an unknown characteristic of interest, generating multiple samples to gauge variation and making predictions or conclusions about the population.
Polling: City
Populations and Samples
DSP.10.e: Informally explain situations in which statistical bias may exist.
Polling: City
Polling: Neighborhood
Populations and Samples
DSP.11: Students will… Informally assess the degree of visual overlap of two numerical data distributions with similar variabilities, measuring the difference between the centers by expressing it as a multiple of a measure of variability.
DSP.12: Students will… Make informal comparative inferences about two populations using measures of center and variability and/or mean absolute deviation in context.
Box-and-Whisker Plots
Mean, Median, and Mode
Movie Reviewer (Mean and Median)
Reaction Time 1 (Graphs and Statistics)
Reaction Time 2 (Graphs and Statistics)
DSP.13: Students will… Use a number from 0 to 1 to represent the probability of a chance event occurring, explaining that larger numbers indicate greater likelihood of the event occurring, while a number near zero indicates an unlikely event.
Geometric Probability
Lucky Duck (Expected Value)
Probability Simulations
Spin the Big Wheel! (Probability)
Theoretical and Experimental Probability
DSP.14: Students will… Define and develop a probability model, including models that may or may not be uniform, where uniform models assign equal probability to all outcomes and non-uniform models involve events that are not equally likely.
DSP.14.a: Collect and use data to predict probabilities of events.
Independent and Dependent Events
Probability Simulations
Spin the Big Wheel! (Probability)
Theoretical and Experimental Probability
DSP.14.b: Compare probabilities from a model to observed frequencies, explaining possible sources of discrepancy.
Independent and Dependent Events
Probability Simulations
Spin the Big Wheel! (Probability)
Theoretical and Experimental Probability
DSP.15: Students will… Approximate the probability of an event using data generated by a simulation (experimental probability) and compare it to the theoretical probability.
DSP.15.a: Observe the relative frequency of an event over the long run, using simulation or technology, and use those results to predict approximate relative frequency.
Geometric Probability
Probability Simulations
Spin the Big Wheel! (Probability)
Theoretical and Experimental Probability
DSP.16: Students will… Find probabilities of simple and compound events through experimentation or simulation and by analyzing the sample space, representing the probabilities as percents, decimals, or fractions.
DSP.16.a: Represent sample spaces for compound events using methods such as organized lists, tables, and tree diagrams, and determine the probability of an event by finding the fraction of outcomes in the sample space for which the compound event occurred.
Independent and Dependent Events
Permutations and Combinations
DSP.16.b: Design and use a simulation to generate frequencies for compound events.
Independent and Dependent Events
DSP.16.c: Represent events described in everyday language in terms of outcomes in the sample space which composed the event.
Independent and Dependent Events
Permutations and Combinations
GM.17: Students will… Solve problems involving scale drawings of geometric figures, including computation of actual lengths and areas from a scale drawing and reproduction of a scale drawing at a different scale.
GM.18: Students will… Construct geometric shapes (freehand, using a ruler and a protractor, and using technology), given a written description or measurement constraints with an emphasis on constructing triangles from three measures of angles or sides, noticing when the conditions determine a unique triangle, more than one triangle, or no triangle.
Classifying Quadrilaterals
Classifying Triangles
Parallelogram Conditions
Special Parallelograms
Triangle Inequalities
GM.19: Students will… Describe the two-dimensional figures created by slicing three-dimensional figures into plane sections.
GM.20: Students will… Explain the relationships among circumference, diameter, area, and radius of a circle to demonstrate understanding of formulas for the area and circumference of a circle.
GM.20.a: Informally derive the formula for area of a circle.
Circumference and Area of Circles
GM.20.b: Solve area and circumference problems in real-world and mathematical situations involving circles.
Circumference and Area of Circles
GM.21: Students will… Use facts about supplementary, complementary, vertical, and adjacent angles in multi-step problems to write and solve simple equations for an unknown angle in a figure.
GM.22: Students will… Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, volume, and surface area of two- and three-dimensional objects composed of triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, cubes, and right rectangular prisms.
Area of Parallelograms
Area of Triangles
Perimeter and Area of Rectangles
Prisms and Cylinders
Pyramids and Cones
Surface and Lateral Areas of Prisms and Cylinders
Surface and Lateral Areas of Pyramids and Cones
Correlation last revised: 9/15/2020