CMP2 Book/Math Standard Guide for Grade 6

This posting will track the current CMP2 Book that will be used by the 6th grade math students.

First Book – September
The first book that will be used beginning on or about September 10th is Prime Time, students will explore certain important properties of whole numbers, especially those related to multiplication and division. The investigations in this unit will help students to:

• Understand relationships among factors, multiples, divisors, and products;
• Recognize and use properties of prime and composite numbers, even and odd numbers, and square numbers;
• Use rectangles to represent the factor pairs of numbers;
• Develop strategies for finding factors and multiples, least common multiples, and greatest common factors;
• Recognize and use the fact that every whole number can be written in exactly one way as a product of prime numbers;
• Use factors and multiples to solve problems and to explain some numerical facts of everyday life; and
• Develop a variety of strategies for solving problems building models, making lists and tables, drawing diagrams, and solving simpler problems.

CMP2 Book/Math Standard Guide for Grade 7

This posting will track the current CMP2 Book that will be used by the 7th grade math students.

First Book – September
The first book that will be used beginning on or about September 10th is Variables and Patterns, students will study some basic ideas of algebra and some ways to use those ideas to solve problems about variables and patterns relating variables. In particular, they will learn how to:

• Identify quantitative variables in situations;
• Recognize situations where changes in variables are related in useful patterns;
• Describe patterns of change shown in words, tables and graphs of data;
• Construct tables and graphs to display relations among variables;
• Observe relationships between two quantitative variables as shown in a table, graph, or equation and describe how the relationship can be seen in each of the other forms of representation;
• Use algebraic symbols to write rules and equations relating variables;
• Use tables, graphs, and equations to solve problems; and

Use graphing calculators to construct tables and graphs of relations between variables and to answer questions about these relations.

CMP2 Book/Math Standard Guide for Grade 8

This posting will track the current  CMP2 Book that will be used by the 8th grade math students.

First Book – September
The first book that will be used beginning on or about September 10th is
Samples and Populations. In the unit Samples and Populations students collect, organize and analyze data. They learn to:

• Use the process of statistical investigation to explore problems;
• Choose appropriate samples from populations and use information from samples to draw conclusions about populations
• Explore the influence of sample size and sample selection processes in trying to obtain a sample which is likely to be predictive about the population
• Apply concepts from probability to select random samples from populations
• Compare sample distributions using measures of center (mean, median), measures of spread (range, least to greatest data values, percentiles), and data displays that group data (histograms, box-and-whisker plots)
• Explore relationships between paired values of numerical attributes

CMP 2 Workshops For Middle School Parents

Through these workshops you can learn more about these units and how to directly help
your child in middle school math. All workshops will be held from 1:00-2:30 p.m. at FAMS.

The sessions will consist of the following:

1) Overview of the NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) Math Strand
covered in the book
2) Overview of the key concepts that will be covered by each investigation
3) Vocabulary or formulas that will be used in the book
4) Complete sample problems

Grade 6
October 25 – Bits & Pieces 1
December 7 – Shapes & Designs
January 23 – Bits & Pieces 2
March 5 – Bits & Pieces 3
May 9 – Covering and Surrounding

Grade 7
November 5 – Stretching & Shrinking
January 17 – Filling and Wrapping
March 7 – Moving Straight Ahead
April 15 – Data Distributions

Grade 8
October 26 – Moving Straight Ahead
December 3 – Samples and Populations
February 8 – Say it with Symbols
March 10 – Growing, Growing, Growing

Mathematical Content by NCTM Strand

The  Number Strand: Developing Numerical Reasoning in Connected MathematicsThe Number strand develops far-reaching ideas about number: how to represent numerical quantities in various ways, and how to reason with those representations. The first 6th grade unit in CMP2, Prime Time, focuses on factors and multiples of whole numbers. The first 7th grade unit,  Accentuate the Negative introduces Integers, and negative fractions.

The Geometry Strand: Developing Geometric Reasoning in Connected Mathematics
Within the Geometry strand are inter-related and complementary ideas: shape and transformations of shape, measurement and visualization. Lengths of sides of a triangle, and areas of squares, are important ideas in Looking for Pythagoras, the first unit of grade 8.

CMP2 Book/Math Standard Guide for Grade 8

This posting will track the current and future CMP2 Book that will be used by the 8th grade math students.

First Book – September
The first book that will be used beginning on or about September 10th is
Looking for Pythagoras. In Looking for Pythagoras focuses  students will explore the Pythagorean Theorem, square roots, and strategies for estimating square roots. In addition, irrational numbers are introduced. The presentation of ideas in the unit reflects the historical development of the concept of irrational numbers. Early Greek mathematicians recognized the need for such numbers as they searched for a ratio of integers to represent the length of the sides of a square with certain areas, such as 2 square units.

CMP2 Book/Math Standard Guide for Grade 7

This posting will track the current and future CMP2 Book that will be used by the 7th grade math students.

First Book – September
The first book that will be used beginning on or about September 10th is Accentuate the Negative. Accentuate the Negative focuses on understanding and developing systematic ways to add, subtract, multiply, and divide positive and negative numbers. Students will develop algorithms for computations and will use the order of operations, the Commutative Property, and the Distributive Property to solve problems.

CMP2 Book/Math Standard Guide for Grade 6

This posting will track the current and future CMP2 Book that will be used by the 6th grade math students.

First Book – September
The first book that will be used beginning on or about September 10th is Prime Time. Prime Time focuses on the properties of whole numbers, especially those related to multiplication and division. Students will learn about factors, multiples, divisors, products, prime numbers, composite numbers, common factors and multiples, and many other ideas about numbers. Students will participate in a series of activities that reflect many of the key properties of numbers and learn how to use these properties to solve problems.