Mathematics

Welcome to Mathematics

“Where the Focus is on the Child"

Curriculum Focus

The Mathematics curriculum is aligned to the Common Core State Standards to prepare students to be college and career ready. The Mathematics Department will implement the eight Common Core Mathematical Practices throughout the curriculum. Cass Junior High Students will develop skills by making sense of tasks and persevering in solving them, reason abstractly and quantitatively, construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others, model with mathematics, use appropriate tools strategically, attend to precision, look for and make use of structure and look for regularity in repeated reasoning.

Classroom Resources

Fifth Grade Overview

Fifth Grade Mathematics

In Fifth Grade Mathematics, students will master understanding of basic math skills and explore new areas of mathematics. Students will transfer knowledge of skills and concepts to apply to solving real-world issues. Students will extend understanding of arithmetic and algebraic expressions and equations, using variables to represent unknown values. Students will apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division of fractions, ultimately solving equations involving the multiplication and division of fractions. Students will use ratios and rates to solve real-world and mathematical problems. Students will apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers. Students will extend understanding of ordered pairs by graphing integers and functions containing integers on the coordinate plane. In addition, students will represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables. Students will reason about the relationships among shapes, using formulas to determine area, surface area, and volume of two- and three-dimensional shapes.
Sixth Grade Overview

Sixth Grade Mathematics

In Sixth Grade, students will use a variety of ways to express their learning related to the Common Core State Standards.

Integers and Rational Numbers

Students will apply and extend previous understandings of operations with fractions to add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational numbers. Students will also solve multistep real-world and mathematical problems with positive and negative rational numbers.

Equations

Students will apply properties of operations as strategies to add, subtract, factor, and expand linear expressions with rational coefficients. Students will also use variables to represent quantities and construct simple equations to solve problems.

Inequalities

Students will extend their understanding of the inverse relationship of operations to solve inequalities. Students will use variables to write expressions and solve real-world and mathematical problems by graphing, writing and solving inequalities. Students will also develop a more complete understanding of variables and expressions as they begin to see patterns in the structure of inequalities.

Ratios, Rates and Proportions

Students will compute unit rates associated with ratios of fractions. Students will also recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities and solve problems involving scale drawings of geometric figures.

Percents

Students will convert between forms of rational numbers and use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems.

Geometry and Area

Students will draw, construct, and describe geometrical figures and describe the relationships between them. Students will also solve real-life and mathematical problems involving angle measure and area.

Surface Area and Volume

Students will solve real-world and mathematical problems involving volume and surface area of three-dimensional objects. Students will also describe the two-dimensional figures that result from slicing three-dimensional figures.

Analyzing Data

Students will use random sampling to draw inferences about a population. Students will also draw informal comparative inferences about two populations and understand the effect sampling has on data collection.

Probability

Students will investigate chance processes and develop, use and evaluate probability models. Students will also compare theoretical probabilities of simple and compound events to observed frequencies.
Seventh Grade Overview

Seventh Grade Mathematics

In Seventh Grade, students will be exploring concepts aligned to the Common Core State Standards. The students will learn to think algebraically. Students will be working collaboratively throughout the year and will be engaged in class on in depth, application activities. Students will be focusing on higher level questions which will allow them to think more abstractly and look at problems in a different way. Mathematics is an important part of everyday life. Students will learn to understand how math is relevant in their own life.
Eighth Grade Overview

Eighth Grade Mathematics

In Eighth Grade, students will be taking either Algebra or Geometry. The goals of the Eighth Grade Mathematics Curriculum are to develop new skills applicable to the real-world, develop new thinking skills, understand the process of problem solving and fostering the growth of students to prepare them for high school. Constant maintenance and review is provided throughout the year in order to help students remember the skills mastered from previous school years as well as those concepts taught at different times throughout the current school year.