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GRADES 6-9
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
MATH PREPARATION: GRADE 7*
Entering Grade 7 – Students in this course will extend their knowledge of ratios and apply proportionality concepts in solving single- and multi-step problems, expressions and equations. Students will learn problem- solving strategies as they deepen their understanding of two- and three-dimensional figures, while making connections to scale drawings.
MATH PREPARATION: GRADE 8*
Entering Grade 8 – Students will extend their knowledge of expressions and equations, including modeling an association in bivariate data with a linear equation,
and solving both linear equations and systems of linear equations. Students will also learn about functions and using functions to describe quantitative relationships.
In addition, the class will explore problem-solving strategies as students deepen their understanding of two- and three-dimensional space and figures, while using distance, angle, similarity and congruence. The course also covers understanding and applying the Pythagorean Theorem.
*Meets Common Core standards
Register at deanza.edu/academy 408.864.8817 • communityeducation@deanza.edu
SCIENCE
**Meets Next Generation Science Standards
ASTRONOMY LAB**
Entering Grades 6-9 – The class will focus on what astronomers know about the sun, moon, solar system, stars and galaxies, and the clever ways they glean this information from visible and invisible light. Students will learn to use internet simulators and a remote observatory, study telescopes and spectroscopes, explore parallax and other techniques, practice using a star chart, and examine strange stars and planets circling other suns. This course is offered in partnership with the De Anza College Planetarium.
• Some activities for this astronomy class require the use of a printer and laptop or desktop computer with Windows version 8 or higher, or a modern MacOS.
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