7th Grade Unit 5 Notes: Building Thinking Classrooms IM® Grade 7 Math Rational

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Description

These Building Thinking Classrooms new 4-quadrant style notes accompany 7th-Grade IM® Grade 7 Math authored by Illustrative Mathematics® (Open Up Resources) Unit 5: Rational Number Arithmetic (Operations with Negative Numbers). Balance student need for structure with the need for freedom and help your students think deeply throughout the notemaking process!

These notes come in PDF format but also include a link to a partially editable Google Slides version of the notes.

These will also work as guided notes for those of you who are not quite ready to dive into the Building Thinking classrooms notemaking structure.

What's Included

✮Teacher Directions & Tips

✮PDF & Partially editable Google Slides versions of notes

✮Display: What’s in the Quadrants

✮Cover Page (for packet)

✮Blank Notes Template

✮Version 1: Quadrants with Header only (Blank)

✮Version 2: Quadrants A&B outline

✮Version 3: Quadrants A&B&C outline

✮Version 4: Fully Complete Teacher Version

✮Full page Visuals of Quadrants A&B&C for teacher to display on board

✮Google Slides Presentation of Top 2 Quadrants (and bottom 2 quadrants separate) with answers to display on click.

Unit 5 Notes Topics

✮Lesson 5.1: Interpreting Negative Numbers

✮Lesson 5.2 & 5.3: Adding Using a Number Line

✮Lesson 5.4: Money & Debt

✮Lesson 5.5 & 5.6: Subtracting Rational Numbers

✮Lesson 5.7: Adding & Subtracting to Solve Problems

✮Lesson 5.8: Position, Speed & Direction

✮Lesson 5.9 & 5.10: Multiplying Rational Numbers

✮Lesson 5.11: Dividing Rational Numbers

✮Lesson 5.9, 10 & 11: Multiplying & Dividing Rational Numbers (combined version)

✮Lesson 5.12: Negative Rates

✮Lesson 5.13: Expressions with Rational Numbers

✮Lesson 5.14: Order of Operations & Rational Numbers

✮Lesson 5.15: Equations with Rational Numbers

✮Lesson 5.16: Representing Contexts with Equations

✮Bonus Topic 1: Adding & Subtracting with the Balloon Model

✮Bonus Topic 2: Adding with the Chip Model

✮Bonus Topic 3: Subtracting with the Chip Model

✮Bonus Topic 4: Adding & Subtracting with the Cauldron Model

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7th Grade Unit 5 Notes: Building Thinking Classrooms IM® Grade 7 Math Rational

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Standards

CCSS7.NS.A.1

CCSS7.NS.A.1a

CCSS7.NS.A.1b

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Description

These notes come in PDF format but also include a link to a partially editable Google Slides version of the notes.

These will also work as guided notes for those of you who are not quite ready to dive into the Building Thinking classrooms notemaking structure.

What's Included

✮Teacher Directions & Tips

✮PDF & Partially editable Google Slides versions of notes

✮Display: What’s in the Quadrants

✮Cover Page (for packet)

✮Blank Notes Template

✮Version 1: Quadrants with Header only (Blank)

✮Version 2: Quadrants A&B outline

✮Version 3: Quadrants A&B&C outline

✮Version 4: Fully Complete Teacher Version

✮Full page Visuals of Quadrants A&B&C for teacher to display on board

✮Google Slides Presentation of Top 2 Quadrants (and bottom 2 quadrants separate) with answers to display on click.

Unit 5 Notes Topics

✮Lesson 5.1: Interpreting Negative Numbers

✮Lesson 5.2 & 5.3: Adding Using a Number Line

✮Lesson 5.4: Money & Debt

✮Lesson 5.5 & 5.6: Subtracting Rational Numbers

✮Lesson 5.7: Adding & Subtracting to Solve Problems

✮Lesson 5.8: Position, Speed & Direction

✮Lesson 5.9 & 5.10: Multiplying Rational Numbers

✮Lesson 5.11: Dividing Rational Numbers

✮Lesson 5.9, 10 & 11: Multiplying & Dividing Rational Numbers (combined version)

✮Lesson 5.12: Negative Rates

✮Lesson 5.13: Expressions with Rational Numbers

✮Lesson 5.14: Order of Operations & Rational Numbers

✮Lesson 5.15: Equations with Rational Numbers

✮Lesson 5.16: Representing Contexts with Equations

✮Bonus Topic 1: Adding & Subtracting with the Balloon Model

✮Bonus Topic 2: Adding with the Chip Model

✮Bonus Topic 3: Subtracting with the Chip Model

✮Bonus Topic 4: Adding & Subtracting with the Cauldron Model

You may also enjoy:

7th Grade Activity Bundles IM® Grade 7 Math
7th Grade Study Guides IM® Grade 7 Math
Holiday Problem Solving Bundle: Middle School Math
Bundle: Full Year of 6th Grade Notes IM® Grade 6 Math
Bundle: Full Year of 7th Grade Notes IM® Grade 7 Math
Bundle: Full Year of 8th Grade Notes IM® Grade 8 Math

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This resource supports IM® K-12 Math authored by Illustrative Mathematics® and used under a CC BY 4.0 International Attribution License.

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Questions & Answers

Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).

CCSS7.NS.A.1

Apply and extend previous understandings of addition and subtraction to add and subtract rational numbers; represent addition and subtraction on a horizontal or vertical number line diagram.

CCSS7.NS.A.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.

CCSS7.NS.A.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.