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Grade 7 Math

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE, READ THIS

Some good, old-fashioned advice from your Math teacher:

IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND SOMETHING,
STAYING QUIET IS THE WORST THING YOU CAN DO.

Math help is available for all students at Homework Club at lunchtime with Mrs. Joanne Congo, and in Mr. Richards' room after school. I will help anybody until 3:30 p.m. I have staff meetings every 4th Thursday from 2:45-4:00, and weekly meetings on Wednesdayat 2:45. Other than that, after school help is always available.

Please understand that a school is a very active environment. Situations frequently arise after school and the needs of those students and/or parents must take priority.

There is a math quiz every Thursday or Friday on the concepts taught that week. The ideas are introduced on Monday, and we practice, review, and expand the idea through the week. On a quiz you get to show me that you understand the idea you've learned and that you're able to solve problems without help. The quizzes are between 10-20 questions in length, and are based entirely on the lessons and homework of that week. There should be no surprises.

Every student should have two sections in their binder: one for assignments and one for quizes that have been returned.

Archimedes' Diagram
(We didn't really do this. We just thought it looked good)

So far this year we have focussed on the foundations of math. Multiplying and dividing skills will be reinforced throughout the year, as these are important for all future math. Do you know your basic times tables? If not, you must practice these. It makes everything else in math easier. Check p. 147 in your planner.

We'll cover the concepts of fractions, decimals, and percentages, and how to convert from one to the others. We will change fractions to decimals, fractions to percentages, decimals to fractions, decimals to percentages, percentages to fractions, and percentages to decimals.

We'll work with fractions on their own, too. We'll learn about equivilent fractions, simplifying fractions, and adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions. We'll dream about fractions. Like it or not!

Later we'll revisit these concepts and applied them to PST, GST, sales discounts and reductions, interest rates, mortgages, and investments.

Click here for a list of math helping sites. There are games and quizes for all aspects of math. I haven't tested them all, so some of the links may be invalid. Let me know if you find a dead link.

We will look at prime numbers, factoring, and exponents (or powers)

We will learn about about Theoretical Probability and Experimental Probability. We'll do class experiments and show our results using bar graphs. We'll learn how to use protractors to design accurate pie charts.

We'll look at basic measurement.

We'll learn how to find the perimeter of various shapes
We'll find the area of squares, rectangles, and triangles.
We'll find the volume of such mysterious objects as cubes, rectangular prisms, pyramids, and even spheres.

Look in your planner. There is a lot of math information inside.

If you really want the lowdown on what pi is and how it was derived, check out this site on pi history.

To get pi to the first measly 10000 digits, click here

Toward the end of the year we'll start looking at algebra and solving some single variable equations. We'll learn a little bit about people like Pythagoras.

if the gif below is not animated, try refreshing your browser.

"This animated illustration of the Pythagorean Theorem was inspired by a comment in the problem section of Chapter 5 of "An Introduction to the History of Mathematics" by Howard Eves, Sixth edition, Saunders, 1990.
"The square on the hypotenuse is divided into two rectangles by dropping a perpendicular from the vertex with the right angle. The transformation of each rectangle into a parallelogram and finally into a square on one leg preserves area"

(Borrowed from the webpage of Robert L. Foote, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Wabash College)