What your child should master by the end of 7th Grade
By the end of 7th Grade, a child should be fluent with proportional relationships and with all operations on rational numbers, including negatives. Students solve real-world percent problems (tax, tip, discount, markup, percent change), work with linear expressions and multi-step equations, and study circles, scale, and probability. This year sets up the formal algebra and geometry of 8th grade.
Key learning topics:
Recognize and use proportional relationships; compute unit rates and solve scale problems
Add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational numbers, including negative fractions and decimals
Solve multi-step percent problems: tax, tip, discount, markup, and percent increase or decrease
Use the distributive property and combine like terms; solve multi-step equations and inequalities
Find area and circumference of circles; solve surface area and volume problems
Use angle relationships (complementary, supplementary, vertical) to find unknown angles
Understand probability and use data samples to compare conclusions
Proficiency looks like: a child who can find the sale price of a discounted item, compute -3/4 x 8, solve 4x + 3 = 2x + 11, and find the percent increase from $10 to $12.