Math is about creativity and making sense.

Mistakes are valuable.

Questions are really important.

Everyone can learn math to the highest levels.

Math class is about learning, not performing.

Depth is more important than speed.

Math is about connections and communicating.

žThe 7th grade integrated math course focuses on the following big ideas/units:                                                

• Making sense of problems and persevering to solve them.

• Ratios and proportions.

• Fractions, decimals, and integers.

• Area and circumference.

• Using random samples to draw inferences.