West Virginia Content Standards and Objectives

21C.O.5-8.3.LS1 Student manages emotions and behaviors, engages in collaborative work assignments requiring compromise, and demonstrates flexibility by assuming different roles and responsibilities within various team structures.

21C.O.5-8.1.TT9 Student uses telecommunications tools (e.g., email, web pages, blogs, discussion groups, list-servs, etc.) to learn academic content and to gather, share and publish information to various audiences.

M.S.7.1 Through communication, representation, reasoning and proof, problem solving, and making connections within and beyond the field of mathematics, students will

• demonstrate understanding of numbers, ways of representing numbers, and relationships among numbers and number systems,
• demonstrate meanings of operations and how they relate to one another, and compute fluently and make reasonable estimates.

M.O.7.1.3 using simple computation and problem-solving situations, demonstrate fluency and justify solutions in performing operations with rational numbers including negative numbers for

• adding
• subtracting
• multiplying
• dividing

M.O.7.3.4 pose and solve ratio and proportion problems including scale drawings and similar polygons.

M.O.7.4.1 select and apply an appropriate method to solve (including, but not limited to, formulas) justify the method and the reasonableness of the solution, given a real-world problem solving situation involving

• perimeter
• circumference
• area
• surface area of prisms (rectangular and triangular) volume of prisms and cylinders
• distance and temperature (Celsius, Fahrenheit)

National Standards Addressed

1. Uses a variety of strategies in the problem-solving process
2.  Understands and applies basic and advanced properties of the concepts of numbers
3.  Uses basic and advanced procedures while performing the processes of computation
4.  Understands and applies basic and advanced properties of the concepts of measurement

21st Century Skills

• Creativity and intellectual curiosity
• Critical thinking and systems thinking
• Problem identification, formulation, and solution
• Thinking and problem-solving skills
• Communication skills
• Information and media literacy skills
• Interpersonal and collaborative skills
• Social responsibility
• Self-direction
• Accountability and adaptability

 

Bloom's Taxonomy

 

Bloom's Level Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Knowledge X X X Comprehension X X X Application X X X Analysis X X X Synthesis X Evaluation X