Unit Three Plan

Grade 7

Length of unit: 3 weeks

Unit 3: Ratio, Proportion and Scale

Unit Question: Why do certain kinds of designs appeal to our brains more than others?

Areas of Interaction:

¨ Human Ingenuity: find out about the lives and work of Vitruvius and Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519

What am I going to learn in this unit?

¨ To understand scale, ratio, rate and proportion

¨ To use rates to compare quantities with different units

¨ To find equivalent ratios and rates

¨ To use equivalent ratios and rates to write proportions

¨ To recognize proportional relationships

¨ To use unit rates and cross multiplication to solve a proportion

¨ To divide a quantity in a given ratio.

¨ Apply knowledge of ratio to both rates and scale drawing problems.

¨ Draw and interpret straight line conversion graphs and distinguish between proportional and non proportional quantities.

¨ To understand that the gradient of a line represents the rate of change

¨ What other skills/concepts will I need to use?

¨ Unit conversion

¨ Show your work clearly step by step

¨ Be patient and persistent

¨ Draw conclusions

To be successful I will:

¨ show I understand the skills and concepts by doing well on the Unit Test (A and C)

¨ meet the criteria on the investigations: Vitruvius: making a human model (A, C and D); Ratio and Proportion Activity (A, C, D) and the Inverse Proportion Investigation (B)

¨ complete all the work set on time and to the best of your ability (Commitment to Learning)

¨ keep my notebook organised and up-to-date (Commitment to Learning)

Classroom requirements:

¨ A4 paper, pen, pencil, ruler, set square, compass, eraser, calculator

Resources:

Mathematics for the International student MYP 2: Chapters 4 and 9 http://www.trinity.nottingham.sch.uk/maths/number/qGenerator.html?dFile=ratioDivide http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/maths/number/ratio/revise1.shtml http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mepres/book8/bk8i7/bk8_7i2.htm http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mepres/book8/bk8i7/bk8_7i3.htm

Unit Two: Percents

Length of Unit: 3 weeks

Unit 2: Percentages

Guiding question: What are some of the ways we can communicate information about the state of our world?

Areas of Interaction:

Health and Social Education: Using percentages to give a better understanding of health related issues.

What am I going to learn in this unit?

¨ To convert between percentages, fractions and decimals

¨ To find a percentage of an amount

¨ To find an amount given the percentage

¨ To find the percentage given the part and the whole

¨ Using mental and written strategies

¨ Apply percentages to real life problems.

What other skills/concepts will I need to use?

¨ Unit conversion

¨ Show your work clearly step by step

¨ Be patient and persistent

¨ Draw conclusions

To be successful I will:

¨ Complete the investigations: “Are Percentages misused?” (B, C, D) and

Nutrition & World Hunger (A,C, D)

¨ show I understand the skills and concepts by doing well on the Unit Test (A, C)

¨ Complete all the homework and class work that is set (C)

¨ Be prepared to class with the required material (Commitment to Learning)

¨ Keep notebook organised and up-to-date (Commitment to Learning)

¨ Stay focused during class (Commitment to Learning)

Classroom requirements:

¨ Text book, maths folder, pen, pencil, ruler, eraser, calculator

Mathematics for the International student: MYP 2: Chapter 3 www.netcomuk.co.uk/~jenolive/percent.html www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/fractiondecimalpercentage/comparing/fractionspercentages/game.shtml www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/tests/percentages.shtml http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/math/percent/decimal_to_percent.shtml http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/math/percent/percent_to_decimal.shtml http://www.trinity.nottingham.sch.uk/maths/number/fracPercMatch.html http://www.trinity.nottingham.sch.uk/maths/number/fracPercMatch.html http://www.10ticks.co.uk/s_help.aspx?search=helpno&searchValue=633b http://www.10ticks.co.uk/s_help.aspx?search=question&searchValue=633b

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Student Plan for Unit One Maths_Miss Callie

Grade 7 MYP 2: Math
Length of unit: 2 weeks

Unit 1: Number

Unit Question: Why are patterns and organisation important?

Areas of Interaction:

¨       Approaches to learning: be creative, organize information clear, keep notebook tidy and complete

What am I going to learn in this unit?                                    

¨       To use divisibility rules to find out if a number is divisible by 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

¨       To identify types of numbers such as even, odd, prime, square

¨       To represent a number as a product of prime factors

¨       To use prime factorization to find the Lowest Common Multiple (LCM) and the Highest Common Factor (HCF)

¨       To solve problems involving the above

¨       To find the square root of a perfect square

¨        To write large numbers using scientific notation

What other skills/concepts will I need to use?

¨       Understand the meaning of: +, –,× , ÷, ( ), ___                                   

¨       Know the timetables                                                                           

¨       Show your work clearly step by step                                                   

¨       Be patient and persistent                                                                             

¨       Draw conclusions

¨       Find information using appropriate resources

To be successful in this unit I will:

¨       show I understand the skills and concepts by doing well on the Unit Test (criteria A and C)

¨       explain the patterns found in the Pascal’s Triangle Project (criteria A, B and C)

¨       complete all the homework and class work on time (Commitment to Learning)

¨       keep my notebook organised and up-to-date (Commitment to Learning)

¨       stay focused during class (Commitment to Learning)

Classroom requirements:

¨       pen, pencil, ruler, eraser, scientific calculator, A4 paper

Resources:

Mathematics for the International student: MYP 2: Chapters 1 and 2 Additional Reading: “Uncle Petros and the Goldbach’s Conjecture” by Apostolos Doxiadis http://www.10ticks.co.uk/s_help.aspx?search=question&searchValue=6715              http://www.10ticks.co.uk/s_help.aspx?search=question&searchValue=7232a http://www.mathplayground.com/howto_divisibility.html http://www.aaastudy.com/div66_x2.htm http://www.aaastudy.com/div66_x3.htm http://www.aaastudy.com/div66_x4.htm http://www.aaastudy.com/div66_x5.htm http://www.aaastudy.com/div66_x6.htm http://www.aaastudy.com/div66_x9.htm http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol7/order_operations.html http://www.trinity.nottingham.sch.uk/maths/number/qGenerator.html?dFile=multPowTen

 

Welcome to Year Seven ISF Maths

I am excited about teaching Year Seven Maths at ISF this year.

Here is a little information about me. I have taught Maths for 26 years, in the US, Italy, Portugal and now Hong Kong. I think Maths is a very useful subject. I believe in teaching my students how the maths we are studying are used in real life - so we will be investigating as many real-world applications as possible this year.

I will use this blog to post homework assignments, answer questions and present requested solutions. I will be posting (and I ask that you post as well) maths notes on our wiki at: mathnotesinternational.pbworks.com

Please post a comment with your own brief biography so we can get to know each other better.

I am looking forward to a very successful year!