Overview for the Year
As Mathematical Thinkers, we explore thinking like a “mathematician” and apply language that is used daily in math. We are always building our “Math Toolbox” of strategies so that we can choose one that works best for us.
Since we are a Grade 6 and 7 class working together mathematically, we assess our understanding of concepts before the unit begins to make sure that all learners are working from a place of understanding as we move forward with, the sometimes, reviewed concepts and all of the new concepts being introduces.
Curricular Content that we are worked on during term 3:
- factors and multiples — greatest common factor and least common multiple
- improper fractions and mixed numbers
- introduction to ratios
- comparing numbers, comparing quantities, equivalent ratios
- part-to-part ratios and part-to-whole ratios
- whole-number percents and percentage discounts
- finding missing part (whole or percentage)
- 50% = 1/2 = 0.5 = 50:100
- perimeter of complex shapes
- area of triangles, parallelograms
- angle measurement and classification
- volume and capacity
- circumference and area of circles
- volume of rectangular prisms and cylinders
- circle graphs
- constructing, labelling, and interpreting circle graphs
- translating percentages displayed in a circle graph into quantities and vice versa
- triangles
- scalene, isosceles, equilateral
- right, acute, obtuse
- classified regardless of orientation
- combinations of transformations
- plotting points on Cartesian plane using whole-number ordered pairs
- translation(s), rotation(s), and/or reflection(s) on a single 2D shapes
- combination of successive transformations of 2D shapes