Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people!
The yearlong Arithmetic and Applications class sequence, of which this module is the first part, is intended to serve as a foundation for the Junior High General Math module sequence starting with Area and Surface Area. The target audience is students who are entering junior high school and have a basic understanding of math concepts, but may need to strengthen certain skills. As well as sixth graders who want to maintain a slower pace of study and older learners who need the basics, this class is suitable for advanced or eager fourth and fifth graders. Students who have already completed and excelled in a comprehensive elementary math curriculum may find this class too easy.
Our goals for this class will be:
- Learners will apply logic to situational problems.
- Learners will find and represent information using two-way tables, Venn diagrams, and graphs.
- Learners may use and interpret set notation and connect it to Venn diagrams.
- Learners will understand number representations using place review, in whole numbers and decimals.
- Learners will round numbers to any place, such as the nearest ten, nearest whole number, or nearest hundredth.
- Learners will understand different but equivalent ways of specifying rounding, such as “to three decimal places” and “to the nearest thousandth.”
- Learners will make situationally appropriate decisions about rounding even in the absence of a specification in the problem statement, such as to two decimal places in problems involving money.
- Learners will interpret and create plotted-point graphs, first in quadrant 1, then in all four quadrants.
- Learners will understand negative numbers geometrically as continuing past zero.
- Learners will use plotted points to draw and analyze geometric figures.
Calc You Later!