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Welcome to the 2022-2023 school year at Wilder’s Preparatory Academy Charter School. My name is Jenny Lee and I am the 7th and 8th grade math teacher. I graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor of Science in Education and a minor in Mathematics. This is my ninth year at Wilder's Preparatory Academy Charter School. I have taught for over 17 years working with both middle school and high school students. This year is going to be an awesome year and I am looking forward to working with your child this school year.
Sincerely,
7th Grade Objectives and Goals
In grade 7, 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.
8th Grade Objectives and Goals· Students apply and extend previous understandings of operations with fractions to add, subtract, multiply, divide rational numbers.
· Students use properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions.
· Students solve real-life and mathematical problems using numerical and algebraic expressions and equations.
· Students draw, construct, and describe geometrical figures and describe the relationships between them
· Students solve real life and mathematical problems involving angle measure, area, surface area, and volume.
· Students use random sampling to draw inferences about a population, draw informal comparative inferences about two populations, and investigate chance processes and develop, use, and evaluate probability models.
In grade 8, instructional time should focus on three critical areas: (1) formulating and reasoning about expressions and equations, including modeling an association in bivariate data with a linear equation, and solving linear equations and systems of linear equations; (2) grasping the concept of a function and using functions to describe quantitative relationships; (3) analyzing two- and three-dimensional space and figures using distance, angle, similarity, and congruence, and understanding and applying the Pythagorean Theorem.
· Students know there are numbers that are not rational, and approximate them by rational numbers.
· Students work with radicals and integer exponents.
· Students understand the connections between proportional relationships, lines, and linear equations.
· Students analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations.
· Students define, evaluate, ad compare functions.
· Students understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software.
· Students understand and apply Pythagorean Theorem.
· Students solve real-world and mathematical problems involving volume of cylinders, cones, and spheres.
· Students investigate patterns of association in bivariate data.
