Our Seventh Grade Intensive Preparation (7IP) class is a 6-lesson summer course designed to fully prepare students for our seventh grade curriculum. Whereas most summer math programs are remedial in nature, ours is not. Students entering our 7IP class should already possess a basic understanding of sixth grade math and be ready to move to a higher level of proficiency.

Each 7IP lesson reviews approximately 6 lessons of sixth grade (6A and 6B) material. The class not only gives students an opportunity to review and reinforce what they learned in sixth grade math, it encourages them to build upon that knowledge by applying it to solve more challenging multi-step word and non-routine problems, thereby improving and expanding their abilities.

Topics covered include:

• Lesson 1: Algebra: Use letters to represent unknowns; Simplify algebraic expressions; Evaluate algebraic expressions by substitution.
• Lesson 2: Geometry: Find unknown angles in geometric figures; Identify nets of cubes, rectangular solids, prisms and pyramids. Ratio and direct proportion.
• Lesson 3: Percentage. Time, speed, distance problems.
• Lesson 4: Circles: Area and circumference of circles, semicircles and quadrants. Pie charts.
• Lesson 5: Area and perimeter of compound figures. Volume of solids and liquids.
• Lesson 6: General review word problems.