This course addresses the Washington State Learning Standards for Mathematics by developing students' abilities to problem solve, reason, and communicate like mathematicians through the Standards for Mathematical Practice and focusing deeply on the Grade 7 and selected Grade 8 Standards for Mathematical Content.
In the 7/8 Compacted Curriculum, instructional time should focus on four critical areas: (1) developing understanding of and applying proportional relationships; (2) developing understanding of operations with rational numbers and working with expressions and linear equations; (3) solving problems involving scale drawings and informal geometric constructions, and working with two- and three-dimensional shapes to solve problems involving area, surface area, and volume; and (4) drawing inferences about populations based on samples