Framingham Public Schools

Seventh Grade Curriculum Outcomes

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Mathematics

Basic Text:  IMPACT Mathematics, McGraw Hill Glencoe, 2005

Brief Statement of Subject Matter:

Students work with basic operations within the four strands identified by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks, and the Framingham Public Schools Mathematics Curriculum. These four strands are:

• Number and Operation Patterns
• Functions, and Algebra
• Geometry and Measurement
• Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability.

General Objectives:
Students engage in problem solving, estimating, communicating, reasoning and connecting in order to:

• use multiple strategies to investigate and solve problems.
• recognize and formulate problems from real world situations.
• link mathematics to other curriculum areas.
• use everyday language to describe mathematical ideas.
• respond to open-ended and open-response questions related to mathematical concepts.
  

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