April and Shapes Students will find patterns originating from numbers, patterns, and shapes. The patterns appear in a wide range of contexts and locations, from a rod-planting factory to a shepherd s field, from a calendar to an old man s will. The patterns grow and change in different ways. Some follow linear progressions based upon changes in a single quantity, while others are non- linear and defined by the interaction of two or three quantities. They follow conventional rules for order Equations of operations and manipulating symbols.
Students create story problems using symbols and solve each other s problems.
In this unit, students begin investigating integers by winning December Negative points and losing points. Students order and compare integers and develop the concepts of opposites, distances on a number line, and absolute value. They use number lines to model strategies for adding, subtracting, and multiplying integers. Finally, students look at familiar number patterns and extend them to operations on integers. Through Rankings, and investigations, they explore statistical measures, including Permutations means, medians, and modes.