They discuss how to pick the correct size for a container for storing phone books in connection with their recycling project. The culmination of this dialogue is the idea that they can measure the length and width of the bottom of the phone book and multiply to get the area. Numbered items from the Virginia Standards for grade 7 mathematics appear below. Compare the treatment of volume in the Glencoe text to the standards 7.9 and 7.13. Parents should answer such questions in their study of the education of their own children.
Parents can insure that their children learn mathematics.
The members of Mathematically Correct encourage parents to do so. The following are from the Seventh Grade Standards for Mathematics from the Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools . The student will compare, order, and determine equivalent relationships between fractions, decimals, and percents, including scientific notation. The student will find common multiples and factors, including least common multiple and greatest common factor. The student will simplify expressions by using order of operations, mental mathematics, and appropriate tools.