Training Page

Mindfulness is a powerful tool that supports students in calming themselves, focusing their attention, and interacting effectively with others, all critical skills for functioning well in school and in life. Incorporating mindfulness into education has been linked to improving academic and social and emotional learning. Also, mindfulness strengthens some underlying development processes—such as focus, resilience, and self-soothing—that will help students in the long run. To begin the day, students will work with their teacher on mindfulness strategies. This is also time for news and important updates in scheduling.

This course is the first of a three-year sequence. It is designed to provide students rich opportunities to build an understanding of important new mathematical concepts, develop fluency with key skills, and gain proficiency with the habits of mind and thinking dispositions. This course formalizes and extends the mathematics that students previously learned in the elementary grades. The Math 6 course covers various concepts from the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks ranging from ratios and proportional relationships, the number system, expressions and equations, geometry, and statistics and probability. Instructional time will focus on five critical areas: (1) connecting ratio and rate to whole number multiplication and division, and using concepts of ratio and rate to solve problems; (2) completing understanding of division of fractions and extending the notion of number to the system of rational numbers, which includes negative numbers; (3) writing, interpreting, and using expressions and equations; (4) developing understanding of statistical thinking; and (5) reasoning about geometric shapes and their measurements. Students will apply The Standards for Mathematical Practice which complement the content standards in each unit. Students will increasingly build their engagement with the subject matter as they grow in mathematical maturity and expertise throughout the course. They will also build on Massachusetts’s Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) competencies in each lesson. Students will apply The Reading Standards for Literacy which complement the content standards in each unit. Students will use multi-sensory, hands-on manipulatives to solve problems where mathematical concepts are applied in real-world scenarios. In order for students to meet the high academic standards and expectations, their math instruction incorporates individualized instruction, related services, supports, and accommodations to allow them access to the general mathematics curriculum.

This course is the second of a three-year sequence.  It is designed to provide students rich opportunities to build an understanding of important new mathematical concepts, develop fluency with key skills, and gain proficiency with the habits of mind and thinking dispositions.  This course formalizes and extends the mathematics that students previously learned in Math 6.  The Math 7 course covers various concepts from the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks ranging from ratios and proportional relationships, the number system, expressions and equations, geometry, and statistics and probability.  Instructional time will focus on four critical areas:  (1) developing understanding of and applying proportional relationships; (2) developing understanding of operations with rational numbers and working with expressions and linear equations; (3) solving problems involving scale drawings and informal geometric constructions, and working with two- and three-dimensional shapes to solve problems involving area, surface area, and volume; and (4) drawing inferences about populations based on samples.  Students will apply The Standards for Mathematical Practice which complement the content standards in each unit.  Students will increasingly build their engagement with the subject matter as they grow in mathematical maturity and expertise throughout the course.  They will also build on Massachusetts’s Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) competencies in each lesson.  Students will apply The Reading Standards for Literacy which complement the content standards in each unit.  Students will use multi-sensory, hands-on manipulatives to solve problems where mathematical concepts are applied in real-world scenarios.  In order for students to meet the high academic standards and expectations, their math instruction incorporates individualized instruction, related services, supports, and accommodations to allow them access to the general mathematics curriculum. 

This course is the third of a three-year sequence.  It is designed to provide students rich opportunities to build an understanding of important new mathematical concepts, develop fluency with key skills, and gain proficiency with the habits of mind and thinking dispositions.  This course formalizes and extends the mathematics that students previously learned in Math 7.  The Pre-Algebra course covers various concepts from the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks ranging from the number system, expressions and equations, functions, geometry, and statistics and probability.  Instructional time will focus on three critical areas:  (1) formulating and reasoning about expressions and equations, including modeling an association in bivariate data with a linear equation and solving linear equations and systems of linear equations; (2) grasping the concept of a function and using functions to describe quantitative relationships; and (3) analyzing two- and three-dimensional space and figures using distance, angle, similarity, and congruence, and understanding and applying the Pythagorean Theorem.  Students will apply The Standards for Mathematical Practice which complement the content standards in each unit.  Students will increasingly build their engagement with the subject matter as they grow in mathematical maturity and expertise throughout the course.  They will also build on Massachusetts’s Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) competencies in each lesson.  Students will apply The Reading Standards for Literacy which complement the content standards in each unit.  Students will use multi-sensory, hands-on manipulatives to solve problems where pre-algebra concepts are applied in real-world scenarios.  In order for students to meet the high academic standards and expectations, their math instruction incorporates individualized instruction, related services, supports, and accommodations to allow them access to the general Pre-Algebra curriculum.