Math 7

Math 7 is a core course that provides a rigorous treatment of mathematics content for seventh grade students.

The Grade 7 standards continue to focus on the prealgebra foundations that are necessary for students’ success in eighth grade and in high school.

Students will build understanding within these strands:

1. Number and Number Sense
2. Computation and Estimation
3. Measurement
4. Probability and Statistics
5. Patterns, Functions, and Algebra

In addition, the content of the standards is intended to support the following process goals for learning mathematics: Problem Solving, Communications, Connections, Representations, and Reasoning.

More specific examples of content components of the Virginia Standard of Learning (SOL) for Grade 7 include:

• Positive and negative exponents, including the order of operations.
• Solving multistep practical problems involving rational numbers, proportional reasoning, and similarity.
• Practical problems involving surface area and volume of a variety of figures.
• Quadrilaterals.
• Transformations.
• Histograms and other graphs.
• Slope as rate of changes.
• Proportional relationships and additive relationships related to graphing a line.
• Connecting proportional relationships using verbal descriptions, tables, equations, and graphs.
• Evaluating algebraic expressions.
• Solving two-step linear equations and inequalities, focused on practical problems.