The three-year middle school mathematics curriculum includes the objectives of the Michigan Department of Education and both content and process standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The program emphasizes mastery of skills basic to computation, measurement, mathematical reasoning, problem solving, number system, estimation, geometry, algebra, statistics, and probability.

The Grade 6 program focuses on numerical reasoning and how it relates to the skills and objectives in the 6th grade curriculum. It explores several algebraic concepts including variables, formulas, and solving equations.

Grade 7 Mathematics

The Grade 7 grade program focuses on proportional reasoning and how it relates to the skills and objectives in the 7th grade curriculum. It continues the development of algebraic concepts such as evaluating expressions and solving equations and inequalities.

The Grade 8 program focuses on algebraic reasoning and how it relates to the skills and objectives in the 8th grade curriculum. The Grade 8 program develops and introduces extensive algebraic concepts such as solving and graphing two-variable equations and inequalities, solving equations involving rational and irrational numbers, working with polynomials and functions, and solving algebraic equations to determine probability.

This course is for qualified accelerated students. It is a rigorous high school level Algebra I course. Students will be given a strong background in the real number system, polynomials and polynomial expressions, factoring linear and quadratic equations, graphing and problem solving. (The next course in this sequence is Honors Accelerated Geometry, currently being offered at the high school level.)