Grade 7 To 8 Math Curriculum Guide
Grade 7 To 8 Math Curriculum Guide
Grade 7 To 8 Math Curriculum Guide
GRADE 7
FIRST QUARTER
o Describing well-defined sets, subsets, universal sets, null sets, and cardinality.
o Illustrating union, intersection, and difference of sets.
o Using Venn Diagrams to represent sets and operations.
o Solving problems involving sets.
Rational Numbers
o Expressing rational numbers from fraction to decimal form and vice versa.
o Arranging rational numbers on a number line.
o Performing operations on rational numbers.
Real Numbers
SECOND QUARTER
Measurement
o Illustrating what it means to measure.
o Describing the development of measurement from the primitive to the present
international system of units.
o Approximating the measures of quantities, particularly length, weight/mass,
volume, time, angle, temperature, and rate.
o Converting measurements from one unit to another in both Metric and English
systems.
o Solving problems involving conversion of units of measurement.
THIRD QUARTER
Geometry
o Representing point, line, and plane using concrete and pictorial models.
o Illustrating subsets of a line.
o Classifying different kinds of angles.
o Deriving relationships of geometric figures using measurements and inductive
reasoning, such as supplementary angles, complementary angles, congruent
angles, vertical angles, adjacent angles, linear pairs, perpendicular lines, and
parallel lines.
o Deriving relationships among angles formed by parallel lines cut by a transversal
using measurement and inductive reasoning.
o Using a compass and straightedge to bisect line segments and angles and
construct perpendiculars and parallels.
o Illustrating polygons: convexity, angles, and sides.
o Deriving inductively the relationship of exterior and interior angles of a convex
polygon.
o Illustrating a circle and the terms related to it: radius, diameter, chord, center, arc,
chord, central angle, and inscribed angle.
o Constructing triangles, squares, rectangles, regular pentagons, and regular
hexagons.
o Solving problems involving sides and angles of a polygon.
FOURTH QUARTER
Factoring Polynomials
o Factors completely different types of polynomials (polynomials with common
monomial factor, difference of two squares, sum and difference of two cubes,
perfect square trinomials, and general trinomials).
o Solves problems involving factors of polynomials.
Rational Algebraic Expressions
o Illustrates rational algebraic expressions.
o Simplifies rational algebraic expressions.
o Performs operations on rational algebraic expressions.
o Solves problems involving rational algebraic expressions.
Rectangular Coordinate System
o Illustrates the rectangular coordinate system and its uses.
Linear Equations in Two Variables
o Illustrates linear equations in two variables.
o Illustrates the slope of a line.
o Finds the slope of a line given two points, equation, and graph.
o Writes the linear equation ax+by=cax + by = cax+by=c in the form y=mx+by =
mx + by=mx+b and vice versa.
o Graphs a linear equation given:
Any two points
The x- and y-intercepts
The slope and a point on the line.
o Describes the graph of a linear equation in terms of its intercepts and slope.
o Finds the equation of a line given:
Two points
The slope and a point
The slope and its intercepts.
o Solves problems involving linear equations in two variables.
Systems of Linear Equations in Two Variables
o Illustrates a system of linear equations in two variables.
o Graphs a system of linear equations in two variables.
o Categorizes when a given system of linear equations in two variables has graphs
that are parallel, intersecting, and coinciding.
o Solves a system of linear equations in two variables by:
Graphing
Substitution
Elimination.
o Solves problems involving systems of linear equations in two variables.
Mathematical Systems
o Describes a mathematical system.
o Illustrates the need for an axiomatic structure of a mathematical system in
general, and in Geometry in particular:
Defined terms
Undefined terms
Postulates
Theorems.
Triangle Congruence
o Illustrates triangle congruence.
o Illustrates the SAS, ASA, and SSS congruence postulates.
o Solves corresponding parts of congruent triangles.
o Proves two triangles are congruent.
o Proves statements on triangle congruence.
o Applies triangle congruence to construct perpendicular lines and angle bisectors.
Triangle Inequalities
o Illustrates theorems on triangle inequalities (Exterior Angle Inequality Theorem,
Triangle Inequality Theorem, Hinge Theorem).
o Applies theorems on triangle inequalities.
o Proves inequalities in a triangle.
Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
o Proves properties of parallel lines cut by a transversal.
o Determines the conditions under which lines and segments are parallel or
perpendicular.
Probability
o Illustrates an experiment, outcome, sample space, and event.
o Counts the number of occurrences of an outcome in an experiment using:
Table
Tree diagram
Systematic listing
Fundamental counting principle.
o Finds the probability of a simple event.
o Illustrates an experimental probability and a theoretical probability.
o Solves problems involving probabilities of simple events.