Preparing to Teach

• Unit Preparation
• Planning an Investigation
• Discourse and Collaboration: Teacher Strategies
• Discourse and Collaboration: Supporting Students
• Student Work and Notebooks
• Using Technology
• CMP Lesson Structure - Launch, Explore, Summary
• Assessments in CMP
• Meeting Students' Needs, General Support

7-1 Shapes and Designs

• Focus Questions
• Scope and Sequence
• What's Problem 1.1 All About?
• Student Work from Shapes and Designs, Problem 2.2: Angle Sums of Any Polygon
• Student Work from Shapes and Designs, Problem 2.3: The Bees Do It
• Using Realize/Dash Activities - Bee Dance Activity, Tessellations, Virtual Polystrips, Quadrilateral Game
• Why do bees build hexagonal honeycombs? - External video about the hidden mathematical rule behind one of nature's most perfect shapes
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 1.4 Explore - Measuring Angles
  • Problem 2.4 Explore - The Ins and Outs of Polygons
  • Problem 3.4 Launch - Parallel Lines and Transversals
  • Meeting Students' Needs

7-2 Accentuate the Negative

• Focus Questions
• Scope and Sequence
• Using Realize/Dash Activities - Integer Product Game
• Jeopardy-Like Game Show for CMP Classrooms
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 1.4 Summary - In the Chips
  • Problem 2.1 Launch - Extending Addition to Rational Numbers
  • Problem 2.1 Explore - Extending Addition to Rational Numbers
  • Problem 2.1 Summary - Extending Addition to Rational Numbers
  • Problem 2.4 Launch - Fact Families
  • Problem 4.2 Launch - The Distributive Property
  • Meeting Students' Needs

7-3 Stretching and Shrinking

• Focus Questions
• Scope and Sequence
• Using Realize/Dash Activities - Mug Wumps
• Arc of Learning
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 2.2 Launch - Hats Off to the Wumps: Changing a Figure's Size and Location
  • Problem 3.3 Explore - Designing Under Constraints
  • Problem 4.3 Summary - Finding Missing Parts
  • Meeting Students' Needs

7-4 Comparing and Scaling

• Focus Questions
• Scope and Sequence
• Student Work from Comparing & Scaling, Problem 1.2: Making Juice
• Student Work from Comparing & Scaling, Problem 2.1: Sharing Pizza
• Shawn Towle demonstrates  the CMP Activity Paper Pool
• Using Realize/Dash Activities - Paper Pool
• Arc of Learning
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 1.2 Explore - Mixing Juice
  • Problem 2.2 Summary - Comparing the Pizza Prices: Scaling Rates
  • Problem 3.3 Launch - Mixing It Up
  • Problem 3.3 Summary - Pouches to Variables: Writing Equations
  • Meeting Students' Needs

7-5 Moving Straight Ahead

• Focus Questions
• Scope and Sequence
• Using Realize/Dash Activities - Climbing Monkeys
• Arc of Learning 
• Problem 2.1: Henri and Emile's Race
• Problem 2.1: Linear Relationships (video)
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 1.3 Explore - Raising Money
  • Problem 2.4 Explore - Connecting Tables, Graphs, and Equations
  • Problem 3.3 Explore - Pouches to Variables: writing Equations
  • Meeting Students' Needs

7-6 What Do You Expect?

• Focus Questions
• Scope and Sequence
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 2.1 Summary - Predicting to Win
  • Problem 3.3 Launch - Squaring a Circle to Find Its Area
  • Meeting Students' Needs

7-7 Filling and Wrapping

• Focus Questions
• Scope and Sequence
• Shawn Towle demonstrates  the CMP Activity Pouring and Filling
• Using Realize/Dash Activities -Virtual Box, Areas and Perimeters of Shapes and Images, Virtual Cylinder, Pouring and Filling
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 2.3 Explore - Slicing Prisms and Pyramids
  • Problem 4.4 Summary - Filling Cones and Spheres
  • Meeting Students' Needs

7-8 Samples and Populations

• Focus Questions
• Scope and Sequence
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 1.2 Launch - Which Team is Most Successful?
  • Problem 2.3 Summary - Choosing Random Samples
  • Problem 3.4 Explore - Estimating a Deer Population: Using Samples to Estimate the Size of a Population
  • Meeting Students' Needs