- Russell O. Brackman Middle School (7-8)
- Course Description
Math: Breyta, J
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Course Information
Teacher Information
Grade 7 Mathematics
Name(s): Mrs. Breyta
Full Year
Phone: 609-698-5880
Class Meeting:
Class Location: N211
Email: jbreyta@barnegatschools.com
Effective mathematics education provides students with a balanced instructional program. In such a program, students become proficient in basic computational skills and procedures, develop conceptual understandings, and become skilled at problem solving. Standards-based mathematics instruction starts with basic material and increases in scope and content as the years progress. Similar to an inverted pyramid, where the entire weight of the developing subject, including readiness for algebra, rests on the foundation built in the early grades.
In Grade 7, instructional time will focus on four critical areas: developing an understanding and applying of proportional relationships; developing an understanding of operations with rational numbers; working with expressions and linear equations; solving problems involving scale drawings and informal geometric constructions; working with two-and three dimensional shapes to solve problems involving area, surface area, and volume; and drawing inferences about population based on samples.
Course Competencies/ Learning Objectives
Students who successfully complete this course will be competent in the following areas:
● Students will be able to analyze proportional relationships
● Students will be able to perform rational number operations
● Students will be able to generate equivalent expressions; solve problems using linear equations and inequalities
● Students will be able to understand geometric relationships; solve problems involving angles, surface area and volume
● Students will be able to analyze and compare populations, find probabilities of events
Course Texts / Online Resources
I Ready Curriculum
- https://www.bim.easyaccessmaterials.com/index.php?location_user=cc2
- http://www.kutasoftware.com
- http://www.math.com
- http://www.purplemath.com
- http://www.khanacademy.org/
Required Materials
Pencils
3-Ring Binder (1 or 1.5 inches)
3 Binder Dividers
Loose Leaf Paper
Attendance Policy
Regular and prompt class attendance is an essential part of the educational experience. The Barnegat Township School District expects students to be responsible and exercise good judgment regarding attendance and absences. Students accept full responsibility for ensuring that they complete any/all work missed due to absences.
Course Topic Outline
Please find a list of the units for this course:
Content Area: Mathematics
Course Title: General Mathematics
Grade Level: 7
The Number System
30 Days
Expressions and Equations
50 Days
Probability & Statistics
25 Days
Ratios and Proportions
30 Days
Geometry
45 Days
Student Grades
The grading system for this course is based on the category weights listed in each department’s policy. For this course, those weights are listed below. Each marking period, students will have a minimum of four (4) Major Assessments and eight (8) Minor Assessments (explained below). Uncollected homework is graded as part of Course Participation, which is assessed twice per marking period using the district rubric. Collected homework assignments are graded for accuracy and are recorded as Minor Assessments.
Major Assessments
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50% of marking period grade
Minor Assessments
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30% of marking period grade
Course Participation
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15% of marking period grade
Benchmark Assessments
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5% of marking period grade
- Examples of Major Assessments include items that are summative in nature, such as: tests, projects, research papers, formal presentations, reports, or any other type of assessment used to capture evidence of learning at the culmination of a unit of study.
- Examples of Minor Assessments include items that are formative in nature, such as: quizzes, exit tickets, collaborative learning, small-scale research activities, notebook reviews, in-class worksheets, or any other type of assessment that is diagnostic in nature and used to guide instruction and provide ongoing feedback to students.
- Note: grades for individual assignments are entered into Genesis for the marking period in which the assignment is assigned and collected, and not a subsequent marking period.
- Extra Credit will only be available for assignments that have been approved ahead of time by the teacher and department supervisor.
- In this course, it is expected that students will submit only their best work, and teachers reserve the right not to accept work that is substantially below what a student is capable of producing.
- Please speak to your teacher about the opportunity for earned Second Chances on certain Major Assessments.