7th Grade.
(En français)
WARNING: the curriculum has been revisited but not these pages. Some informations aren't so accurate.
It should be updated soon.
Overview:
7th grade together with 8th grade are the classes where students have to acquire all the basis necessary for their studies.
Knowledges, structure and methods.
It is a transition period and a very demanding one. Much more demanding than 6th grade.
Reasoning and proofs will take a more and mrs dominating part of the teachings, in geometry of course but also in algebra.
It’s a major difficulty of these grades.
Even if observing will stay a key practice, but with a view to a proof.
Special attention is needed towards advices and corrections.
Contents:
• Order of operations, with parenthesis
• Chains of operations
• Distributive property
• Division by a decimal
• Writing fractions
• Interpretation of fractions: proportions and frequencies
• Equality of fractions
• Addition and subtraction (when denominators are multiples)
• Multiplication
• Concept of negative number
• Order and comparison
• Addition and subtraction of negative numbers
• Divisibility
• Multiples and divisors
We will introduce letters in expressions and initiate the use of equations to solve problems.
The distributive property will take all its importance.
Through problems solving, the 7th grade is a crucial step towards abstraction and algebra.
We will widen the domains of applications of proportionality.
This school year, students will walk their first steps in the vast field of statistics.
At the menu: head counts, frequencies, categories, histograms, … and interpretation of graphs and results.
• Parallelogram
• Properties and characterization
• Classification of quadrilaterals
• Applications to reasoning
• The triangle inequality and its applications
• Sum of the angles
• Circumscribed circle
• Medians and heights in a triangle
• Reasoning using properties and definitions
• Principles
• Properties of invariance will be progressively discovered, explained and applied to reasoning
A fundamental chapter of 7th grade.
Second chapter: Prisms and cylinders
At the menu: representations in perspective, nets, volumes.
• Angles: extending the knowledge of 6th grade
• Area of a disk
• Calculations of perimeters and areas for more complex figures
Enjoy the school year.
Note that these informations are not exhaustive nor lessons plans.
It’s just a overview of the curriculum.
