7th Grade Unit 1 Scale Drawings

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Lesson Purpose
Visually distinguish scaled copies of a figure.
Lesson 1
Use informal language to describe characteristics of scaled copies.

Understand the meaning of scale factor and how it relates corresponding lengths of a figure and its scaled copy.
Lesson 2 Identify corresponding points, segments, and angles in a pair of figures.
Understand and explain what it means to say one part in a figure corresponds to one part in another figure.

Draw a scaled copy of a given figure using a given scale factor.

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Understand that the relationship between the side lengths of a figure and its scaled copy is multiplicative, not additive.

Identify corresponding lengths and angles that can show that a figure is not a scaled copy of another.
Lesson 4
Understand and explain how corresponding distances between points and corresponding angles behave in a figure and its scaled copies.

Understand and explain how scale factors of 1, less than 1, and greater than 1 affect the size of scaled copies.
Lesson 5
Understand and explain how the scale factor between Figure A and Figure B relates to the scale factor between Figure B and Figure A.

Lesson 6 Understand and explain how scaling lengths impacts area.

Use scale and scale drawings to determine actual distances and solve problems.
Lesson 7
Understand and describe what a scale drawing is.

Leson 8 Use scale and scale drawings to determine actual distances and solve problems.

Find the scale, given lengths on a drawing and actual lengths.

Lesson 9
Create scale drawings given scales with units (e.g., 1 inch to 10 feet) and understand how different scales affect the size of the drawings.

Reproduce a scale drawing at a different scale

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Use scale and scale drawings to find actual areas

Understand and explain the meaning of scales expressed without units.

Lesson 11
Use scales without units to determine scaled and actual distances.

Express scales with units as scales without units.

Lesson 12
Identify equivalent scales.

Choose an appropriate scale to represent an actual object or distance given limited drawing size.
Lesson 13
Create a scale drawing of a real-world two-dimensional object.
 7th Grade Unit 2 Introducing Proportional Relationships
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Lesson Purpose
Remember representations related to equivalent ratios, like double number lines and tables.
Lesson 1
Remember language from grade 6 related to equivalent ratios.

Understand that tables of equivalent ratios represent proportional relationships between the two corresponding quantities.
Lesson 2 Understand relationships between rows and between columns in tables of values that represent proportional relationships.
Understand and use the terms proportional relationship and constant of proportionality.

Understand that tables of equivalent ratios represent proportional relationships between the two corresponding quantities.
Understand relationships between rows and between columns in tables of values that represent proportional relationships.
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Understand and use the terms proportional relationship and constant of proportionality.
Identify the constant of proportionality for a proportional relationship represented by a table.

Understand that a proportional relationship represented by a table or context can be represented by an equation of the form y=kx.
Represent a proportional relationship between x and y by an equation of the form y=kx.
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Recognize that in a proportional relationship between x and y, the value of y is always kx, where k is the constant of proportionality.
Identify or find the constant of proportionality as an entry in the table.

Represent a proportional relationship between x and y as both y=kx and x=(1/k)y.

Lesson 5
Recognize that proportional relationships have two constants of proportionality that are reciprocals.

Solve for unknowns in a proportional relationship using a constant of proportionality.

Lesson 6
Understand the meaning of each part of the equation y=kx in context.

Write an equation that relates two quantities in a proportional relationship.

Lesson 7 Recognize when a relationship represented by a table could be proportional and explain why.
Recognize when a relationship represented by a table is not proportional and explain why.

Recognize when a relationship represented by an equation is or is not proportional and explain why.
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Understand that a relationship between two quantities represented by xand y is proportional if and only if there is some k>0 such that y=kx.
 Understand what questions to ask to determine whether two variables are in a proportional relationship and how to represent the
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Determine whether two variables are in a proportional relationship using multiple methods.

Understand that a proportional relationship can be represented in the coordinate plane by a line that includes the origin, or a collection of
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Gain familiarity with discrete and continuous graphs of proportional relationships.

Gain familiarity with discrete and continuous graphs of proportional relationships.

Lesson 11 Given the graph of a proportional relationship, find the constant of proportionality and interpret it in context.
Draw the graph of a proportional relationship given only one pair of values.

Understand that for graphs of proportional relationships on the same axes, the graph with greater constant of proportionality is steeper.
Lesson 12
Compare two, related proportional relationships based on their graphs.

Write an equation representing a proportional relationship using a single point on the graph.
Lesson 13 Understand that every proportional relationship has two graphs, one for each constant of proportionality.
Interpret points on a graph of a proportional relationship in context.

Identify and explain correspondences between different representations of a proportional relationship.

Lesson 14 Understand how derived units are assigned to k in order to obtain the associated rate when k is a constant of proportionality for a proportional
relationship.
Work with unfamiliar units and express rates in derived units.

Solve a problem written in informal language by analyzing a proportional relationship.

Lesson 15
Recognize a proportional relationship and nonproportional relationship in context.
 7th Grade Unit 3 Measuring Circles
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Lesson Purpose
Decide whether a relationship is proportional using a graph and a quotient.
Understand that due to measurement error, if a graph of two associated quantities is close to a line through the origin, or quotients are
Lesson 1 close to each other, there might be a proportional relationship.
Understand that if a graph of two associated quantities is clearly not close to a line through the origin, or quotients are clearly not close to
each other, this is enough to conclude there is not a proportional relationship.

Describe the characteristics that make something a circle.

Lesson 2
Be introduced to the terms diameter, center, radius, and circumference.

Understand π as the constant of proportionality in the relationship between the diameter and circumference of a circle.
Lesson 3 Recognize that the relationship between the diameter and circumference of a circle is proportional and the constant of proportionality is a
little more than 3.

Use the equation C=πd to solve problems.

Lesson 4 Fluently use the terms diameter, radius, and circumference.
Know when and how to use approximations for π.

Use the proportional relationship C=πd to solve problems.

Lesson 5
Recognize that the circumference of a circle is the same as the distance a wheel travels in one revolution.

Calculate areas of polygons.

Lesson 6
Find area of a complex shape by decomposing into polygons of known areas.

Notice that the area of a circle is a constant multiple of r2.

Leson 7 Determine that the relationship between the diameter of a circle and its area is not proportional.
Deepen understanding of area as the number of unit squares that cover a region.

Know that the formula for area of a circle is πr2.

Lesson 8
Understand that the area of a circle is half of the circumference multiplied by the radius using informal dissection arguments.

Use the formula A=πr2 to solve problems involving the areas of circles.
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Represent exact answers in terms of π.

Lesson 10 Understand that C=πd is needed to solve problems about distance, while A=πr2 is needed to solve problems involving area.

Lesson 11 Apply both circumference and area when solving problems.

 7th Grade Unit 4 Proportional Relationships & Percentages
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Lesson Purpose
Recall work with percentages from grade 6.
Lesson 1
Encounter a familiar situation where fractions are used in a ratio.

Prepare for work with percentages by solving some problems where the ratios are converted to amounts out of 100.
Lesson 2
Solve problems involving ratios of fractions and their associated rates.

Set up tables with two rows and find a missing entry by reasoning about scale factor or unit rate.
Lesson 3
Name the two quantities in a proportional relationship and reason in terms of these quantities.

Lesson 4 Apply the distributive property to expand and factor linear expressions with rational coefficients.

Notice the relationship between “half as much again” and “multiply by 1.5” (and similar activities using other fractions, e.g. “0.25 less than”).
Lesson 5 Make connections to the distributive property as in x+0.5x=(1+0.5)x=1.5x.
Use long division to write fractions as decimals.

Use diagrams to solve percent increase and decrease problems.

Lesson 6
Solve assorted problems involving percent increase and decrease.

Understand that since a percent increase or decrease is a percent of an original amount, it makes sense to associate the original amount
with 100% when solving problems.
Leson 7
Reason about percentages as rates per 100 to solve percent increase and decrease problems.
Encounter some situations where it is sensible to express the change in a quantity as a percentage of the starting amount.

Calculate a percentage increase on various original amounts, and then express the calculation using a variable in place of the original
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Solve assorted problems involving percent increase and decrease.

Understand a fractional percentage as a fractional rate per 100.

Lesson 9
Find fractional percentages of quantities.

Start learning how percentages define proportional relationships.

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Solve fractional percentage problems in the context of sales tax.

Solve multi-step problems in which intermediate steps are given in the text of the problem.
Lesson 11
Learn the contexts where percentages show up in life: tip, gratuity, commission, interest, markup, discount, tax.

Lesson 12 Solve multi-step problems in which intermediate steps are not given in the text of the problem.

Understand how measurement error can result from rounding to the closest marking on a measuring device.
Lesson 13 Understand how measurement error can result from human error in using measuring tools.
Express measurement error as a percentage of the correct measurement.

Identify the correct amount to compute percent errors.

Lesson 14
Given two quantities out of measurement amount, correct amount, and percent error, find the third quantity.

Lesson 15 Given the maximum percent error, find a range of possible measurements.

Lesson 16 Let's explore how percentages are used in the news.

 7th Grade Unit 5 Rational Number Arithmetic
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Lesson Purpose
Locate rational numbers on the number line.
1 Interpret positive and negative numbers in context.
Compare rational numbers.

Represent addition of rational numbers on a number line.

2
Use reasoning about temperatures to make sense of addition equations involving rational numbers.

Add rational numbers efficiently.

3
Understand that additive inverses sum to zero.

Understand that positive numbers can represent money received and negative numbers can represent money that is paid.
4
Interpret positive and negative numbers in a money context.

Understand and be able to explain that subtracting is equivalent to adding the additive inverse.
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Represent subtraction of rational numbers on a number line.

Know and apply the convention that “the difference between a and b” is a−b.
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Subtract rational numbers efficiently.

7 Use addition and subtraction of rational numbers to solve problems in context.

Understand that speed with direction can be represented with positive and negative numbers.
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Reason about the sign of the product of a positive and a negative number using a speed and direction context.

Understand and explain why the product of two negative numbers is positive.
9
Understand what we mean by “negative time.”

10 Fluently multiply rational numbers.

11 Understand and explain the rules for determining the sign when dividing rational numbers.
12 Make sense of situations that can be represented with negative rates.

13 Solve problems involving the four operations with rational numbers.

14 Solve problems involving the four operations with rational numbers.

Understand that you can solve equations by adding additive inverses (“opposites”) and multiplying by multiplicative inverses (“reciprocals”).
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Solve equations of the form x+p=q and px=q, where p, q and x are rational numbers.

Write equations of the form p+x=q or px=q to represent situations with negative numbers.
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Solve equations of the form p+x=q or px=q that include negative numbers.

17 Solve problems in a money context using positive and negative numbers.

 7th Grade Unit 6 Expressions, Equations, Inequalities
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Lesson Purpose
Lesson 1 Reason about new types of multi-step problems.

Reason with tape diagrams to find unknown quantities in a context.

Lesson 2 *Create tape diagrams to represent situations.
Explain how the parts of a tape diagram represent the parts of a situation and relationships between them.

Create a tape diagram to represent an equation.

Lesson 3 Reason with tape diagrams and equations to find unknown quantities.
*Match a tape diagram to its corresponding equation.

Use tape diagrams to understand that there are situations that can be represented by an equation of the form px+q=r.
Lesson 4
Solve equations of the form px+q=r using a tape diagram or by reasoning about the value that would make the equation true.

Solve equations of the form p(x+q)=r using a tape diagram or by reasoning about the value that would make the equation true.
Lesson 5
Use tape diagrams to understand that there are situations that can be represented by an equation of the form p(x+q)=r

Distinguish between situations leading to equations of the form px+q=r and p(x+q)=r.
Lesson 6
Group equations of the form px+q=r and p(x+q)=r based on the structure of the equation.

Make connections between solving an equation of the form px+q=r and finding an unknown weight on a balanced hanger diagram.
Leson 7
Describe balanced hangers with equations of the form px+q=r

Make connections between solving an equation of the form p(x+q)=r and finding an unknown weight on a balanced hanger diagram.
Lesson 8 Understand why a balanced hanger with multiple copies of a group of weights can be represented by equations of both forms px+q=r and
p(x+q)=r

Understand that the strategy of doing the same to each side can be applied to equations with negative numbers.
Lesson 9
Solve equations of the form px+q=r and p(x+q)=r where p, q, and r are rational numbers

Identify and correct errors in solution pathways for equations of the form p(x+q)=r
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Lesson 10 Understand that there are two approaches to solving equations of the form p(x+q)=r: first dividing each side by p, or first expanding with
the distributive property, and that one might be more efficient depending on the numbers involved

Lesson 11 Solve word problems leading to equations of the form px+q=r or p(x+q)=r

Lesson 12 Solve word problems leading to equations of the form px+q=r or p(x+q)=r

Use substitution to determine whether a given number in a specified set makes an inequality true.
Understand that that there are infinitely many values that make an inequality true.
Lesson 13
Understand the terms “less than or equal to” and “greater than or equal to,” and the symbols ≤ and ≥.

Encounter situations in which an expression evaluating to less than a certain amount requires a variable in the expression be greater than
a certain amount (and vice versa). (For example, if we want -2x to be less than 10, xmust be greater than -5.)
Notice that if an inequality uses <, sometimes its solution uses < but sometimes its solution uses > (and vice versa). Use reasoning about a
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context or by substitution to decide which symbol the solution uses.
Solve real-world and mathematical problems leading to inequalities of the form px+q>r or px+q<r.

Encounter situations in which an expression evaluating to less than a certain amount requires a variable in the expression be greater than
a certain amount (and vice versa). (For example, if we want -2x to be less than 10, xmust be greater than -5.)
Compare equations and inequalities in terms of solution strategies and number of solutions.
Lesson 15 Notice that if an inequality uses <, sometimes its solution uses < but sometimes its solution uses > (and vice versa). Use reasoning about a
context or by substitution to decide which symbol the solution uses.
Solve real-world and mathematical problems leading to inequalities of the form px+q>r or px+q<r.

Practice solving inequalities of the form px+q>r and px+q<r.

Lesson 16 Write inequalities to represent problems in context.

Solve real-world and mathematical problems leading to inequalities of the form px+q>r or px+q<r.
Lesson 17 Graph the solution set of an inequality and interpret it in the context of the problem
 Use a graphic organizer for work with the distributive property.
Lesson 18 Understand how to rewrite subtraction as adding the opposite in order to use the commutative property.

Apply the distributive property to expand and factor linear expressions with rational coefficients.
Lesson 19

Find an expression that, when combined with another expression, yields an equivalent expression
Lesson 20 Apply properties of operations to generate an equivalent expression with fewer terms.

Generate a variety of expressions by positioning parentheses in different places in a given expression; apply properties to write the
expressions with fewer terms
Lesson 21
Identify and correct errors made when applying properties of operations

Apply properties of operations to identify equivalent expressions.

Lesson 22 Rewrite an expression with fewer terms by noticing and combining terms with common factors
 7th Grade Unit 7 Angles, Triangles, Prisms
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Lesson Purpose
Add and subtract angles that form 360 degree, straight and right angles.
Lesson 1
Explain reasoning about angles using informal language.

Understand the meaning of complementary and supplementary angles.

Lesson 2
Recognize when adjacent angles in a diagram are complementary or supplementary and know what this means for their measures.

Identify when nonadjacent angles are complementary or supplementary based on their measures.
Lesson 3 Recognize vertical angles and explain what that means for their measures.
Understand that complementary or supplementary angles do not have to be adjacent.

Find the measures of angles given the measures of other angles in the diagram and the properties of vertical, supplementary, and
Lesson 4 complementary angles.
Understand that an equation can represent the relationship between angle measures.

Use a variable to represent the measure of an angle and an equation to represent a relationship between angle measures.
Lesson 5
Solve for unknown angle measures using equations of the form px+q=r.

See that 4 side lengths do not determine a unique quadrilateral, but 3 side lengths can determine a unique triangle or no triangle
Lesson 6
Experience using the side lengths to determine the shape instead of using the shape to determine the side lengths

Recognize the usefulness of a compass when drawing a shape with unknown angles but given side lengths.
Leson 7 See an unknown angle as a hinge that a known side rotates around.
Tell whether 3 given side lengths will make one unique triangle or no triangle.

Realize that adjacency is important.

Lesson 8
Recognize that changing the relative order of the sides and angles often makes different triangles.

Draw triangles in different configurations when given two angle measures and one side length.
Lesson 9
Tell from their drawings whether the measurements determine one unique triangle, more than one triangle, or no triangle.

Tell from their drawings whether the measurements determine one unique triangle, more than one triangle, or no triangle.
Lesson 10
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Draw triangles in different configurations when given two side lengths and one angle measure or three angle measures.

Practice visualizing some cross sections of prisms and pyramids.

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Slicing a solid with a plane produces a plane figure.

Use layers of cubes to understand the volume of a prism.

Lesson 12
Remind students of the connection between the area of the base and the volume of a prism.

Lesson 13 Calculate the volume of a prism by decomposing the base of the figure into simpler shapes.

Formulate efficient methods for finding surface areas of prisms.

Lesson 14 Make a connection between the net of a prism and its surface area.
Use the net of a prism to calculate its surface area.

Lesson 15 Determine from the situation whether volume or surface area is needed to solve the problem.

Lesson 16 Given contextual situations calculate the volume or surface area.

Expand 3-dimensional intuition by assembling two triangular prisms to make other prisms.
Lesson 17
Use accurate drawing skills to make a triangular prism with specified dimensions.
 7th Grade Unit 8 Probability & Sampling
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Lesson Purpose
Lesson 1 Understand that observing outcomes from prior experiments can provide information about how likely these outcomes are to occur.

Describe the likelihood of an event as impossible, unlikely, equally likely as not, likely, or certain.
Lesson 2
Use percentages, fractions, and decimals to order likelihood of events.

Understand that a numerical value (or probability) can be used to describe the chance that some event will occur.
Lesson 3
Find the probabilities of events based on the number of outcomes in the event and the size of the sample space.

Understand that the estimated value of the probability of an event based on repeating a chance experiment many times may not be
Lesson 4 exactly equal to the actual probability of the event.
Understand that the cumulative relative frequency of an event approaches the probability as the experiment is repeated many times.

Explain why a probability estimate based on repeating an experiment many times may not be exactly equal to the actual probability for a
Lesson 5 given event.
Understand that a probability can be estimated by performing the experiment many times.

Lesson 6 Understand that some real-world events can be simulated by repeating an appropriate chance experiment to estimate probability.

Understand that compound events in a more complex, real-world scenario can be simulated in order to estimate the probability of
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desired outcomes.

Lesson 8 Represent sample spaces using organized methods such as lists, tables, and tree diagrams.

Lesson 9 Find the probabilities of events based on the number of outcomes in the event and the size of the sample space.

Lesson 10 Design and use a simulation to estimate probabilities of compound events.

Write the difference between a measure of center for each of two distributions as a multiple of a measure of variability.
Lesson 11
Compare two populations based on their distributions, measures of center, and measures of variability.

Identify the population and a sample for a question of interest.

Lesson 12
Understand why samples may be useful in answering questions of interest.
 Review when it makes sense to use mean or median as a measure of center for data.
Lesson 13 Explain what it means for a sample to be representative of the population.
Understand that some samples represent the population better than others.

Understand that random sampling tends to produce representative samples and supports valid inferences.
Lesson 14
Describe methods to obtain a random sample from a population.

Use the measure of center from a representative sample to estimate the same measure of center for a population.
Lesson 15
Calculate measures of variability for samples and use them to gauge the accuracy of estimates for population characteristics.

Lesson 16 Use the proportion of sample data within a certain category to estimate the proportion of the population data in the same category.

Understand that the measure of center from a larger sample is more likely to be close to the measure of center for the population.
Lesson 17 Understand that different samples can produce different estimates for population measures of center.
Use means from many samples to gauge how accurate an estimate for the population mean is.

Compare populations based on the median and IQR of a sample from each population.
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Compare populations based on the mean and MAD of a sample from each population.

Lesson 19 Understand the factors that need to be considered when comparing two populations based on a sample.

Lesson 20 Compare two data sets by taking a random sample from each and working with their measures of center and variability.