7th grade Math Guide

The Number System

Core Guide

Grade 7

Apply and extend previous understandings of operations with fractions to add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational numbers (Standards 7.NS.1 – 3) Standard 7.NS.1: Apply and extend previous understandings of addition and subtraction to add and subtract rational numbers; represent addition and subtraction on a horizontal or vertical number line diagram. a. Describe situations in which opposite quantities combine to make 0. For example, a hydrogen atom has 0 charge because its two constituents are oppositely charged. b. Understand p + q as the number located a distance |q| from p in the positive or negative direction, depending on whether q is positive or negative. Show that a number and its opposite have a sum of 0 (are additive inverses). Interpret sums of rational numbers by describing real-world contexts. c. Understand subtraction of rational numbers as adding the additive inverse, p – q = p + ( – q) . Show that the distance between two rational numbers on the number line is the absolute value of their difference, and apply this principle in real-world contexts. d. Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract rational numbers. Concepts and Skills to Master

• Understand, apply, and explain the additive inverse property, including using situations with context. • Model addition and subtraction of rational numbers, including integers, decimals, and fractions, on a number line. • Add and subtract rational numbers, including integers, decimals, and fractions.

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• Use strategies such as making zero pairs. For example, 6 + (-8) is the same as 6 + (-6) + (-2) or

Related Standards: Current Course

Related Standards: Future Courses

7.NS.2, 7.NS.3, 7.EE.1, 7.EE.3, 7.EE.4, 7.SP.5

8.NS.1, 8.EE.2, IH.N.VM.10, II.N.RN.3, III.A.APR.7, P.N.VM.10

Support for Teachers Critical Background Knowledge (Access background knowledge)

• Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract (making a ten, composing/decomposing numbers) (1.OA.3 and 1.OA.6) • Build fractions from unit fractions by joining/separating parts referring to the same whole (4.NF.3) and use benchmark fractions (5.NF.2) • Represent positive and negative numbers in context (6.NS.5) • Recognizing opposite signs of numbers as indicating locations on opposite sides of zero on the number line (6.NS.6) • Finding and positioning rational numbers on a number line (6.NS.6) • Understand, interpret and compare the absolute value of rational numbers (6.NS.7)

Academic Vocabulary Integer, rational number, additive inverse, commutative property, associative property

Curriculum Resources: http://www.uen.org/core/core.do?courseNum=5170#71302

7.NS.1

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