In Grade 7, instructional time should focus on four critical areas:

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• Developing understanding of and applying proportional relationships

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• Developing understanding of operations with rational numbers and working with expressions and linear equations;

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• Solving problems involving scale drawings and informal geometric constructions, and working with two- and three-dimensional shapes to solve problems involving area, surface area, and volume; and

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• Drawing inferences about populations based on samples.