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TABLE 1

CMP Curriculum for Grades 6, 7, and 8

Sixth	Seventh	Eighth
Prime Time	Variables and Patterns	Thinking with Mathematical Models
• Number theory; primes; composites, factors and multiples	• Introducing algebra; variables, tables, graphs, and symbols as representations	• Introduction to functions and modeling
Data About Us	Stretching and Shrinking	Looking for Pythagoras
• Data investigation; formulating questions, gathering data, organizing and analyzing data, making decisions based on data	• Similarity with congruence as a special case	• Pythagorean Theorem, slope, area and irrational numbers
Shapes and Designs	Comparing and Scaling	Growing, Growing, Growing …
• Reasoning about shapes and shape properties; angle measure	• Rate, ratio, proportion, percent and proportional reasoning	• Exponential growth
Bits and Pieces, Part I	Accentuate the Negative	Frogs, Fleas, and Painted Cubes
• Understanding rational numbers: Fractions, decimals, and percents	• Understanding and using integers	• Quadratic growth
Covering and Surrounding	Moving Straight Ahead	Say It With Symbols
• Measurement: Area and perimeter	• Linear relationships expressed in words, tables, graphs, and symbols	• Equivalent expressions and solutions of linear equations
How Likely Is It?	Filling and Wrapping	Hubcaps, Kaleidoscopes, and Mirrors!
• Probability	• 3-D measurement	• Transformational geometry
Bits and Pieces, Part II	What Do you Expect?	Samples and Populations
• Using rational numbers: Computation	• Probability (expected value)	• Gathering data from samples to make predictions about populations
Ruins of Montarek	Data Around Us	Clever Counting
• Spatial visualization and spatial reasoning	• Number sense	• Using trees, lists, and principals to count set: combinatorics

Sixth	Seventh	Eighth
Prime Time	Variables and Patterns	Thinking with Mathematical Models
• Number theory; primes; composites, factors and multiples	• Introducing algebra; variables, tables, graphs, and symbols as representations	• Introduction to functions and modeling
Data About Us	Stretching and Shrinking	Looking for Pythagoras
• Data investigation; formulating questions, gathering data, organizing and analyzing data, making decisions based on data	• Similarity with congruence as a special case	• Pythagorean Theorem, slope, area and irrational numbers
Shapes and Designs	Comparing and Scaling	Growing, Growing, Growing …
• Reasoning about shapes and shape properties; angle measure	• Rate, ratio, proportion, percent and proportional reasoning	• Exponential growth
Bits and Pieces, Part I	Accentuate the Negative	Frogs, Fleas, and Painted Cubes
• Understanding rational numbers: Fractions, decimals, and percents	• Understanding and using integers	• Quadratic growth
Covering and Surrounding	Moving Straight Ahead	Say It With Symbols
• Measurement: Area and perimeter	• Linear relationships expressed in words, tables, graphs, and symbols	• Equivalent expressions and solutions of linear equations
How Likely Is It?	Filling and Wrapping	Hubcaps, Kaleidoscopes, and Mirrors!
• Probability	• 3-D measurement	• Transformational geometry
Bits and Pieces, Part II	What Do you Expect?	Samples and Populations
• Using rational numbers: Computation	• Probability (expected value)	• Gathering data from samples to make predictions about populations
Ruins of Montarek	Data Around Us	Clever Counting
• Spatial visualization and spatial reasoning	• Number sense	• Using trees, lists, and principals to count set: combinatorics

Source:Lappan et al. (1996d, p. 15).