Working towards the goals in the Essential Learnings in mathematics, each seventh grader will understand concepts and apply procedures in the following areas: 

Number Sense:

• Understands properties and symbolic representations of numbers.
• Understands computation and computes using the basic operations of +,-, x, and - and follows the rules for order of operations.
• Selects and uses tools appropriately.
• Uses estimation to predict results of computation.
• Finds and uses estimates to determine reasonableness of answers.
• Compares, sequences, and orders numbers.
• Uses number theory properties ( primes, composites, divisibility rules, factors.
• Understands the concepts of ratio and proportion.

Measurement:

• Measures objects and events.
• Understands the concepts of and relationships among linear dimensions, area, and volume.
• Finds perimeter, area, and volume.
• Understands the concept of rate and the procedures for calculating rates and determining units.
• Understands how to select tools which will provide precise measurement.
• Understands and uses the US and metric systems of measurement.
• Understands how and when to use estimates.

Spatial Sense: 

• Describes geometric shapes using attributes.
• Recognizes geometric relationships.
• Understands plane geometry properties.
• Describes and finds locations of objects.
• Understands and constructs symmetric, congruent, and similar figures.
• Understands and uses compass and straightedge and/or computer software to construct geometric figures.

Probability and Statistics: 

• Understands and calculates probability for simple events.
• Understands how to conduct experiments and simulations and compares results mathematically.
• Understands how statistics can be used to support different points of view.
• Understands how to describe a population and collects a random sample of data to represent it.
• Organizes and displays data in tables, charts, and graphs as appropriate.
• Determines validity of data.
• Understands, calculates, and uses mean, median, range and mode as appropriate for describing data.
• Predicts outcomes of experiments and simulations and compares predictions to results of experiments.
• Understands and makes inferences based on results of experiments.

Functions and Relationships:

• Recognizes, creates, and extends patterns and sequences.
• Represents number patterns with tables, graphs, and rules.
• Symbolically represents situations which involve variable quantities with equations and inequalities.
• Understands and uses variables in simple equations, inequalities, and formulas.
• Creates and solves single-variable equations.