CURRICULUM COURSE OUTLINE
Course Name(s):
Mathematics Grade 7
Grade(s):
Grade 7
Department:
Math
Course Length:
Pre-requisite:
1 Year
6th Grade Math
Textbook/Key Resource:
Teacher-created materials that follow Curriculum Companion (CESA 7)
McGraw-Hill Math: Built to the Common Core textbook and consumable
Course Description:
Grade 7 Mathematics will focus on four critical areas:
 Developing understanding of and applying proportional relationships
 Operations with rational numbers and working with expressions and linear equations
 Solving problems involving scale drawings, geometric constructions, and surface area, and
volume
 Drawing inferences about populations
Standards:
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics
Shawano School District
Unit: Ratios and Proportional Relationships
Unit Length: 6 weeks
Students will know:
Students will be able to:
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1) Compute unit rates associated with
ratios of fractions in context
2) Represent and solve proportional
relationships including scale drawings
How to show that two objects are
proportional
How to analyze proportional
relationships and use them to solve
real world and mathematical problems
How percent can help in situations
involving money
How to integrate aspects of The
Number System and Expressions and
Equations
Standard(s): 7.RP.1; 7.RP.2; 7.RP.3; 7.NS.3; 7.EE.2; 7.EE.3
Unit: The Number System
Unit Length: 6 weeks
Students will know:
Students will be able to:
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1) Understand addition and subtraction
with positive and negative rational
numbers and solve problems in
contextual situations
2) Understand multiplication and division
with positive and negative rational
numbers and solve problems in
contextual situations
3) Convert rational numbers to decimal
form and solve problems in contextual
situations
What happens when you add, subtract,
multiply, and divide integers and
fractions
How to apply and extend previous
understandings of operations with
fractions to add, subtract, multiply, and
divide rational numbers
Standard(s): 7.NS.1; 7.NS.2; 7.NS.3; 7.EE.3; 7.RP.3
Unit: Expressions and Equations
Unit Length: 6 weeks
Students will know:
Students will be able to:
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How numbers and symbols can be
used to represent mathematical ideas
What it means to say two quantities are
equal
How to use properties of operations to
generate equivalent expressions
How to solve real life and mathematical
1) Use properties of operations to generate
equivalent expressions
2) Develop an understanding of the
relationship between the circumference
and area of a circle
3) Create and solve problems that involve
expressions, equations, and inequalities
including situations that involve a
problems using numerical and
algebraic expressions and equations
geometric context
Standard(s): 7.EE.1; 7.EE.2; 7.EE.3; 7.EE.4; 7.NS.3
Shawano School District
Unit: Geometry
Unit Length: 6 weeks
Students will know:
Students will be able to:
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1) Construct geometric shapes with given
How geometry and measurements
conditions
helps describe real world objects
2) Slice prisms and pyramids and describe
 How to draw, construct, and describe
the resulting figures
geometrical figures and describe the
3) Write and solve equations involving
relationships between them
angles
 How to solve real life and mathematical
problems involving angle measure,
area, surface area, and volume
Standard(s): 7.G.1; 7.G.2; 7.G.3; 7.G.4; 7.G.5; 7.G.6
Unit: Probability and Statistics
Unit Length: 12 weeks
Students will know:
Students will be able to:
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How to predict the outcome of future
events
How to know which type of graph to
use when displaying data
How to investigate chance processes
and develop, use, and evaluate
probability models
To use random sampling to draw
inferences about a population
How to draw informal comparative
inferences about two populations
1) Understand the ranges of probability and
likelihood as well as approximate
probability based on data
2) Develop and evaluate probability models
3) Understand and apply various methods
to find the probabilities of compound
events
4) Understand random sampling and use it
to draw inferences about a population
5) Draw informal comparative inferences
about two populations using measures
of center and variability
Standard(s): 7.SP.1; 7.SP.2; 7.SP.4; 7.SP.5; 7.SP.7; 7.SP.8