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Syllabus or Course Outline
Mathematics 7 (MYP Level 2) Green Lake Schools
I. COURSE DESCRIPTION
Mathematics 7 is a year-long course designed to help students make the connection between arithmetic and algebra. This course satisfies the framework of MYP and Wisconsin State Standards by offering topics in number, measurement, algebra, geometry, statistics and probability and discrete mathematics enabling students to become knowledgeable inquirers, thinkers, risk takers, communicators, and disciplined workers of mathematics while guiding them to become caring, balanced, reflective individuals. This course also demonstrates the international dimensions of mathematics and its various cultural and historical perspectives.
II. AIMS & OBJECTIVES
The aims and objectives of teaching and learning Mathematics 7 are to encourage and enable students to develop mathematical and problem solving skills with the opportunity to explore new topics and make their own conjectures. The students will be exposed to challenging familiar and unfamiliar problems that required them to take risks, investigate and recognize patterns, apply critical thinking skills and prior knowledge, use technology, show persistence and defend their results. The students will explore the usefulness of mathematics, its development over time, and how it is connected to their life, other disciplines, and cultures throughout the world. At the end of this course students should be able to: draw conclusions consistent with their findings; demonstrate understanding of the concepts from the five branches of mathematics (number, algebra, geometry, statistics and probability, and discrete mathematics); select and use appropriate rules correctly; justify and prove mathematical relationships and general rules; communicate mathematical reasoning, ideas, and findings effectively both orally and in writing using various forms of mathematical concepts (formulae, diagrams, tables, charts, graphs and models); and develop the ability to reflect upon and evaluate their work and the work of others by justifying and explaining the importance of the results.
III. TEXTS AND RESOURCES
Mathematics 7 for the international student (MYP 2) from Haese & Harris Publications.
Middle School Math (Course 2 & Course 3) from Scott Foresman – Addison Wesley
The four primary internet resources will be IB-OCC, TI MATH Texas Instrument’s Activities site to support the use of technology, CORR’s Successful Practices Network and SMART technology’s education site to support the use of interactive whiteboards in the classroom.
IV. COURSE CONTENT AND AREAS OF INTERATION
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Model Academic Standard of Mathematical Processes will be followed throughout each topic.
A. Number Sense, Computation and Operations
(AOI: Approaches to Learning/Health and Social Education/Environment)
· Arithmetic skills
· Number Theory: Powers, Roots, Order of Operations, LCM & GCF, Prime Numbers, and Prime Factors, Sets,
· Integers, Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
B. Geometry
(AOI: Approaches to Learning/Environment)
· Angles, Lines and Parallelism
· Triangles and Polygons
· Circles
· Solids and 3-D Figures
C. Measurement
(AOI: Approaches to Learning/Community and Service)
· Length and Area
· Perimeter and Circumference
· Volume
· US Customary and Metric Measurements
· Ratios, Rates, and Proportions
D. Algebra
(AOI: Approaches to Learning/Human Ingenuity)
· Patterns and Models
· Expressions and Evaluations
· Equations
· Expansion and Factorization
· Problem Solving
· Line Graphs
· Algebraic Fractions
E. Statistics and Probability
(AOI: Approaches to Learning/Health and Social)
· Experimental and Theoretical Probability
· Data Collection
· Displaying and Analyzing Data
V. Assessment and Grading:
A. Assignments will be assessed according to the criteria from the IB-MYP rubrics for
Mathematics or GreenLakeSchool District percentage grading scale.
B. Assessment strategies for each unit may include:
· Homework Assignments
· Written assignments and projects
· Oral and group presentations
· Attitude and participation
· Student Journal evaluation
· Self and peer evaluation
· Quizzes
· Unit tests
C. Marks distribution and grading
1. Each term will be evaluated using the above strategies, and will be give a
percentage mark. This term mark will be based upon:
· 60% marks gathered throughout the units in each term
· 40% Summative task (quizzes and tests) from the units in the term
2. Each semester mark will be based upon:
· 40% of each of the two term marks
· 20% Semester Exam mark
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