2024 - 2025 Class 7 Math

Our Class 7 Math Lessons are live, and students are invited to interact with the teacher and ask questions as part of class time.

We offer two options for Class 7 math. The first option is our two-day per week class, and the second option is our three-day per week class. The three-day per week class gives students an additional day with the teacher and more time to practice concepts. The two-day per week class is more accelerated and is recommended for the student who doesn’t need the extra time. Both classes cover the complete grade-level curriculum outlined below, but the two-day per week class may go more in depth into a topic since students in this class are ready to move at a faster pace with seventh grade foundational concepts.

Our approach to math is to make it meaningful for the students. We bring real-world application to our lessons, and we help the students see the patterns and beauty of math that exist all around them in the natural world.

Seventh grade is an important year because we begin to introduce algebraic concepts. Students are typically excited to enter the world of algebra. They gain confidence this year as we challenge them with ratios and proportions and more complex ways of thinking. Geometry is a also a focus in our math class as we begin to master concepts with properties of triangles and angles, along with non-conventional shapes. As in prior years, we do not rely on, wrote procedures, but lead students to discover theorems on their own. This is one of the great beauties of the Waldorf math curriculum.

Teachers assign math homework for students to complete outside of class, and students are required to purchase a math workbook, Making Math Meaningful, Grade Seven, as part of their supply list.

In addition to the individual homework, students will be assigned to a math group where they will meet once a week outside of class time, via Zoom, to work on group math assignments.  The students can work with their group mates to determine a convenient time for all members.  The group meeting should last about 45 minutes each week. Class 7 students can expect to spend about 2 hours outside of math class on individual math homework.

Assessments are given, and seventh grade is the first year when we provide students with formal letter grades as we begin preparing them for grades in high school.

Students DO NOT need to be enrolled in Lotus & Ivy Main Lesson Classes to enroll in Lotus & Ivy Math courses.

Class 7 Math Topics

Mental Arithmetic
Math Tricks
Divisibility
Roots
The metric system and the U.S. system
Percents (finding the base, strange percents, compound interest, percent increase and decrease)
Ratios
Direct and inverse proportion
The ratio in a circle (pi)
Repeating decimals
Irrational numbers
The square root algorithm
Puzzles and word problems
Basic algebra
Negative numbers and the four processes
Simplifying expressions
Gauss’s summing formula
Car rental formula
Galileo’s law of falling bodies
Euclid’s perfect number formula
Balancing equations
Algebraic word problems
Shear and stretch in geometry
Areas of parallelograms, trapezoids, and non-right triangles
Geometric division, star patterns, and triangle constructions
The pentagon and the golden ratio
Angle theorems and proofs
Theorem of Morley
Theorem of Thales
The Pythagorean Theorem and visual proofs
Pythagorean triples

PLEASE NOTE: THE MATH MAIN LESSON BLOCK FOR CLASS 7 IS INTRODUCTION TO ALGEBRA. THIS MAIN LESSON IS TAUGHT AS PART OF THE LOTUS & IVY CLASS 7 MAIN LESSON CLASS, NOT THE CLASS 7 MATH CLASS. TOGETHER, OUR CLASS 7 MAIN LESSON CLASS AND CLASS 7 MATH CLASS MAKE THE FULL MATH CURRICULUM, WHICH PROVIDES A SOLID AND RIGOROUS MATH FOUNDATION. 

WE OFFER MATH A LA CARTE OR IN COMBINATION WITH ANY OF OUR OTHER CLASSES. Please contact us if you have questions.