Benchmark Test 1st Quarter (October 6-10, 2008)The following concepts and skills are required of all students completing seventh grade. They should be taught in depth using a variety of methods and applications so that all students have accessibility to and an understanding of these concepts.
Note: Asterisks (*) have been used to identify standards and objectives that must be assessed by the local school district. All other skills may be assessed by the Oklahoma School Testing Program (OSTP).
| Unit 1 | |
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| 4.1a | Develop area and perimeter concepts (e.g., use grids to estimate the area of irregular shapes). |
| 4.1b | Apply formulas to solve problems involving perimeter (circumference) and area of polygons and circles. |
| 4.2a | Select and use appropriate tools for measurements in practical applications and make reasonable estimates of measurements in a particular situation using the appropriate unit. |
| Unit 2 | |
| 2.1a | Compare and order positive and negative integers and describe their use in real-life situations (e.g., temperature, sea level, stock market fluctuations, football yardage). |
| 3.3a | Locate points on a plane in all four quadrants. |
| 4.2b | Use estimates to relate customary and metric measurements to each other. |
| 1.1 | Identify and apply the commutative, associative, distributive, inverse and identity properties (e.g., n + 0 = n, 2(x + 3) = 2x + 6). |
| 2.1b | Use the basic operations on integers to solve problems |
| 2.3a* | Analyze and develop generalizations of exponential patterns, including zero as an exponent, using manipulatives and calculators (e.g., model getting paid a penny the first day, 2 cents the second day, 4 cents the third day . . .). |
Benchmark Test 1st Quarter (October 6-10, 2008)| Unit 3 | |
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| 1.2 | Use a variety of methods to model and solve one-step linear equations (e.g., use properties of equality, graph ordered pairs with paper and pencil, use graphing calculators). |
| 2.2a* | Demonstrate the concept of ratio and proportion with models (e.g., similar geometric shapes, scale models). |
| 2.2c | Solve percent application problems (e.g., discounts, tax, finding the missing value of percent/part/whole). |
| 2.2b | Set up equivalent ratios, estimate and solve problems using ratio, proportions, and percents including percents greater than 100 and less than 1 (e.g., determine missing sides of similar figures, heart rate per minute, cost per pound, pay to hours worked overtime). |
| Unit 4 | |
| 3.1a | Classify triangles according to their sides and angles. |
| 3.1b | Classify quadrilaterals according to their sides and angles (e.g., determine whether all squares are rectangles). |
| 3.2 | Identify and compare bisectors, interior, exterior, and vertical angles (e.g., using graph paper, software, protractors to measure angles between parallel lines with a transversal). |
Benchmark Test 1st Semester (Dec 15-19, 2008)| Unit 5 | |
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| 3.3b | Identify geometric transformation of figures (rotations, translations, and reflections) |
| 2.3b | Build and recognize models of multiples to investigate squares and square roots (e.g., build rectangular arrays for numbers 1 to 100 and note which can be represented as squares). |
| 2.3c | Estimate the square root of a number (e.g., between two consecutive integers). |
| Unit 6 | |
| 5.1 | Use data from a sample to predict possible outcomes and compute simple probabilities as fractions, decimals or percents (e.g., use data from lists, tree diagrams, frequency distribution tables, area models). |
| 5.2 | Determine the probability of an event involving “or”, “and”, or “not” (e.g., on a spinner with 1 blue, 2 red and 2 yellow sections, what is the probability of getting a red or a yellow?). |
| 5.3 | Find all possible combinations and permutations involving a limited number of variables. |
Benchmark 3rd Quarter Comprehensive (March 9-13, 2009)