7TH GRADE MATH SYLLABUS

MR. CANTERBURY
NMS GIRLS/BOYS SOCCER COACH
2016-2017
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Teacher: Dave Canterbury
Phone Number: 931-242-1026 questioning. -Albert Einstein
Email: drcanterbury@jmcss.org
Room: 19

Grading & Instruction Textbook & Materials Course Description and

50% Assessments Prerequisites
40% Classwork & Quizzes Engage New York 7th Math Curriculum
10% Daily Work This course is correlated with the
Tennessee Holt McDougal Mathematics Course 2
Tennessee 7th Grade Math Standards.
You will earn grades in the following Students will develop understanding of
Common Core Performance Coach Mathematics and applying proportional relationships,
areas:
operations with rational numbers and
Class work working with expressions and linear
Test/Quizzes equations, solving problems involving
Weekly Homework Academic Vocabulary scale drawings and informal geometric
Projects Commission, complex fraction, constant of constructions, working with two- and

Engage NY Notebook Check proportionality, discount, mark down, mark
up, proportions, rate, ratios, scale, unit rate.
Guided & Independent
Rational/Irrational numbers, integers, additive
Practice inverse, absolute value, absolute value,
Prodigy quantity, deposit, withdrawl, evaluate, deduct,
Study Island descend, ascend, fraction, reciprocal, 5
properties, product, quotient, sum, difference,
terminating/repeating decimal.
three-dimensional shapes to solve
problems involving area, surface area,
and volume, and drawing inferences
about populations based on samples.
Students must have successfully passed
a 6th grade Math course.

Rules and Consequences 1st Quarter Standards

P-Punctual
O-Orderly
Ratios and Proportional Relationships
W-Work Hard
(7 weeks)
E-Engaged
o Students will Analyze proportional
R-Respectful
Consequences: relationships and use them to
1st-Warning solve real-world and
2nd-In-Class Consequence mathematical problems.
3rd-Begin Step Sheet Process Number System (2 weeks)
(Major offense = immediate referral) o Students will apply and extend
Miscellaneous previous understandings of
Students maintain an Engage NY notebook operations with fractions to add,
which includes class notes and guided practice. subtract, multiply, and divide
Parents have access to all attendance and grade
information via PowerSchool, please see parent
rational numbers.
resources on www.jmcss.org.
All assignments can be found on
www.7mathwithnbc.weebly.com
 Parent and Student Contract:

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procedures on the previous pages. On a daily or regular schedule, try to ask what
your son/daughter learned in class and to see their interactive notebook and grade
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