Review Unit: The Real Number System

The last thing I wanted to cover in the Review Unit ties in to Unit 1 of the Interactive Notebook, the real number system. In 6th grade, the students learned to identify natural, whole, integers, rational  and irrational numbers. Unit 1 in 7th grade is Rational Number Operations, so I thought it would be good to remind students of the number vocabulary that will be used in Unit 1. As usual, the best graphic organizer I could find was on the Math=Love blog. I also used her idea of creating a foldable out of Frayer Models folded in half. She has a Frayer Model template that has multiple models on one page (woohoo saving paper!). I would suggest having your students fill out the Frayer Models before cutting and pasting.

 

The "I Can" statements for this lesson is:

I can identify numbers in the real number system.

 

The IXL Lesson for this activity is:

A.10: Classify Numbers

Review Unit: Area and Perimeter

Although area and perimeter are covered in the geometry unit in 7th grade, I figured a review of area and perimeter of squares would be helpful. Many times perimeter and area of squares is talked about in the equations unit which is before geometry. I used a template with examples that I found here.
This was a short and simple lesson so I assigned students two IXL lessons and allowed them to start working once we were done with the notes.

 

 

The "I Can" statement for this lesson is:

I can use and define area and perimeter.

 

 

The IXL Lessons are:

X.17: Perimeter

X.18: Area of Rectangles and Parallelograms 

Review Unit: Graphing

I decided to do my graphing review in two parts, first focusing on the order pairs and then focusing on the actual coordinate plane. I found really cool foldables on my favorite blog, Math=Love. I took 3 days on this lesson, two days on graphing ordered pairs and one day on the coordinate plane. These foldables are a little more elaborate, so just prepare yourself with a few extra copies.

 

There were different "I Can" statements for the two pages, they are:

I can graph ordered pairs.

I can label parts of the coordinate plane.

 

There are three IXL Lessons, one for each day:

P.1: Coordinate Plane Review

P.3: Follow Directions on a Coordinate Plane

P2: Quadrants and Axes

Review Unit: Place Value

After fractions I like to work on place value because many of the students have forgotten the vocabulary. I work on place value to get the students ready for the 7th grade lessons about percents and converting between fractions and decimals. If they know the vocabulary ahead of time it makes teaching those lessons much easier. The awesome foldables on the second page of my INB were found here. I spent two days on this lesson, the second day I focused a lot on rounding to certain place values. After we reviewed the notes, I put them in pairs to do a Rounding Decimals Matching  activity. It made them really thinks about the different place values and forced them to get a little organized.

 

The "I Can" statement with this activity is:

I can write numbers in word, picture, standard and expanded form.

 

The IXL Lessons with this activity are:

D.1: Decimal Numbers Review

D.4: Round Decimals 

Review Unit: Divisibility Rules

With my students being 2 or more grade levels below where they should be, many of my students are not strong with their multiplication tables. This makes division difficult, which makes dealing with fractions almost impossible. I decided the best way I could help them was not by giving them a multiplication table, but to review the divisibility rules they were taught years ago. This would help them when finding the GCF to reduce fractions. The template for this foldable is on my TPT site or you can make one yourself. It's a 4x4 table with the divisibility rules written on the outside boxes.

 

 

The "I Can" statement for this lesson is:

I can use divisibility rules to solve problems.

 

The IXL Lesson for this activity is:

A.4: Divisibility Rules



Review Unit: Key Terms

Going along with the CUBES word problem strategy, I decided to work on key terms with my 7th graders. You would be surprised how many of them don't know that "of" means multiply. A big lesson in 7th grade is writing algebraic equations from words and this activity will help them when we get to that unit.

You can find the template on my TPT page or just make one yourself (it's a pretty simple foldable).

 

 

The "I Can" statement for this lesson is:

I can identify math vocabulary in the real world. 

 

The IXL Lesson Aligned with this lesson is:

R.1: Write Variable Expressions