Unit Two Overview: Fractions and Integer Addition

October 18-November 17

Standards:
Students who demonstrate an understanding can:
7.NS.1a: Describe situations in which opposite quantities combine to make 0. For example, a
hydrogen atom has 0 charge because its two constituents are oppositely charged.

7.NS.1b: Understand p + q as the number located a distance |q| from p, in the positive or negative
direction depending on whether q is positive or negative. Show that a number and its opposite
have a sum of 0 (are additive inverses). Interpret sums of rational numbers by describing
real-world contexts.

7.NS.1d: Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract rational numbers.

7.NS.2a: Understand that multiplication is extended from fractions to rational numbers by requiring
that operations continue to satisfy the properties of operations, particularly the distributive
property, leading to products such as (-1)(-1) = 1 and the rules for multiplying signed numbers.
Interpret products of rational numbers by describing real-world contexts.

7.NS.2d: Convert a rational number to a decimal using long division; know that the decimal form of
a rational number terminates in 0s or eventually repeats.

Enduring Understandings
What do we want students to understand and be able to use several years from now, after they have
forgotten the details?

Students will understand how to

Rewrite numbers in different forms in order to compare them.

Determine whether a fraction can be rewritten as a repeating or terminating decimal.
Build (compose) and take apart (decompose) numbers and lengths.
Add and multiply positive and negative integers and rational numbers.
Choose appropriate scales and set up useful graphs for data.

Predictable misconceptions:

Students may have trouble converting a fraction into a decimal. Students tend to forget which number
is the divisor and which is the dividend
Students may forget how to represent a remainder with a repeating decimal. Students need to use the
vinculum (bar over the repeating digits).
Students need to be reminded that an negative number moves back on the number line and a
positive number moves forward

Key Skills

- Integer Addition
- Rational number addition
- Graphing
- Reading a table
- Fraction to decimal conversions
- Decimal to fraction conversions

Need to Know

- Terminating vs. Repeating decimals

- Addition
- Compose and decompose numbers
- Understand multiplication is repeated addition

Nice to Know

- Representing fractions as diagrams

- Being able to compare fraction diagrams when it comes to addition
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Vocabulary

Integers
Rational Numbers
Irrational numbers
Mixed number
Fraction greater than one
Four-quadrant graph
Equivalent
Absolute value
Additive Identity
Additive Inverse
Distributive Property
Scale
Scaling
Interval

Assessment Evidence

1. Exit tickets: 1-3 question assessments that will determine if students master the objective for that
lesson
a. 2.1.1
b. 2.2.2
c. 2.2.4
2. Participation quiz: Group work that is assessed based on how well students work together, ask
questions, and push each others thinking.
a. 2.2.1
3. Individual quiz: Individual assessment on all the standards that have been taught and worked on
throughout the chapter
a. After 2.2.6
b. Intervention
c. Re-take
4. Project: An assessment to apply the skills that have been gained throughout the unit to an applicable
skill
a. After 2.3.2
 Framing the Unit

Where are we headed?

Chapter 3 focuses on integer and fraction subtraction
Chapter 4 begins two-step equations and inequalities
8th grade requires students to master negative number operations
8th grade requires students to master graphing data from tables

Why is this material important?

Rational number addition is a basic and crucial skill for success in every persons life. This basic skill
will help someone understand their finances, understand the concept of 0 and how to get there, and
develop the foundational skills for a person to excel in future math classes and growth.
Students will be consistently asked and pushed to consider as many places as possible where they
see negative numbers

What will be required of students?

Daily Do Nows
Daily homework
Classwork
Individual
Partners
Groupwork
Assessments
Exit Tickets
Participation Quizzes
Quizzes
Project - Integer Story Project

How will students get hooked?

This chapter is a great way for students to apply mathematical knowledge to the real world. Many
problems and scenarios will have foundation and real experience. This is a great way for me to share
my experiences with students.

Key Learning Activities

Think-Pair-Share
Participation Quiz
Cecil the Tightrope Walker
Deskboards
Diagrams
Representations of a Portion
Fraction to Decimal Conversions
Duct tape Number Lines
Integer Tiles
Mental Math
Area Model
Graphing

Cross-Curriculum

English:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its
development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
 Students will analyze texts during their project and summarize information about
different companies
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.3: Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how
setting shapes the characters or plot).
Students will research different CEOs backgrounds and write analysis on how their
backgrounds influence their leadership for their project