2006 - 2007

Seventh Grade Math Overview

Six Weeks / Unit / Unit Name / Brief Description / Time / TEKS /

TAKS

08/14/2006 Convocation/District Staff Development
08/15 – 08/16/2006 Staff Development
08/17/2006 First Day of School
1 / 1 / Bits and
Pieces II /
  • Using Rational Numbers
  • Understanding and skill with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fractions and decimals
  • Solving percent problems
/ 8/17-9/29
09/04/2006 Labor Day
1 / 1 / Bits and
Pieces II
Continued /
  • Using Rational Numbers
  • Understanding and skill with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fractions and decimals
  • Solving percent problems

09/22/2006 End 1st Six Weeks
2 / 2 / Variables and Patterns /
  • Introducing Algebra
  • Variables
  • Representations of relationships, including tables, graphs, words and symbols
/ 10/2-10/6
10/09 – 10/10/2006 Staff Development
2 / 2 / Variables and Patterns
Continued /
  • Introducing Algebra
  • Variables
  • Representations of relationships, including tables, graphs, words and symbols
/ 10/11-11/3
11/03/2006 End 2nd Six Weeks
3 / 3 / Comparing and Scaling /
  • Ratio, Proportion, and Percent
  • Rates and ratios
  • Making Comparisons
  • Proportional reasoning
/ 11/6-11/17
11/20 – 11/24/2006Thanksgiving Break
3 / 3 / Comparing and Scaling /
  • Ratio, Proportion, and Percent
  • Rates and ratios
  • Making Comparisons
  • Proportional reasoning
/ 11/27-12/20
12/20/2006 End 3rd Six Weeks
12/21/2006 – 01/05/2007 Winter Break
01/03-01/05/2007 Workday and Staff Development
4 / 4 / Accentuate the Negative /
  • Integers
  • Understanding and modeling integers
  • Integer operations
  • Four-quadrant graphing
/ 1/8-1/12
01/15/2007 Martin Luther King, Jr. DayHoliday
4 / 4 / Accentuate the Negative
Continued /
  • Integers
  • Understanding and modeling integers
  • Integer operations
Four-quadrant graphing / 1/16-2/2
4 / 5 / Filling and Wrapping /
  • Three-Dimensional Measurement
  • Volume and surface area of various solids
  • Volume and surface a4a relationships
/ 2/5-3/9
02/19/2007 President’s Day Holiday
02/20/2007 7th grade TAKS Writing Test
KS
4 / 5 / Filling and Wrapping
continued /
  • Three-Dimensional Measurement
  • Volume and surface area of various solids
  • Volume and surface relationships
  • Volume and surface a4a relationships
/ 2/5-3/9
02/23/2007 End 4th Six Weeks
03/12-03/16/07 Spring Break
5 / 6 / What do you Expect? /
  • Probability and Expected Value
  • Probabilities of two-stage events
**must do 1-3 prior to TAKS / 3/19-4/5
04/06/2007 Good Friday
5 / TEKS Review / 10 days for TEKS Rotations based on classroom data / 6 days
4/9-4/13 / All / All
04/13/2007 End 5th Six Weeks
04/17/2007 - Math TAKS Test, 04/18/2007 – Reading TAKS Test
04/23/2007 Staff Development – Bad Weather Make-Up Day
6 / 6 / What do you Expect?
Continued /
  • Probability and Expected Value
  • Probabilities of two-stage events
/ 4/30-5/11
6 / 18 / Final Review /
  • Final review and Exams!!!
/ 10 days
5/16-5/30 / All 6 weeks / all
05/28/2007 Memorial Day Holiday
05/30/2007 Last of School – End 6th Six Weeks
05/31/2007 Staff Workday

This yearly overview is very tentative. Please note the actual days you teach each unit and note the TEKS you’re teaching. We will try to send updated units of study to each teacher mid-fall.

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