Grade 7

What your child learns in grade 7

• Grade 7 mathGrade 7 math adds and subtracts negative numbers, works with proportions and percent change, and solves equations in more than one step. Here is what it covers, where kids usually get stuck, and one way to help.
• Grade 7 scienceIn grade 7, science stops being mostly about naming things and starts asking why they happen: why a food chain has so few foxes, why salt seems to vanish in water, why a metal spoon in hot tea gets hot. Here is what it covers, where kids usually get stuck, and one way to help.
• Grade 7 EnglishGrade 7 English looks at how a story is told, not just what happens in it: who the narrator is, what they know, and what that does to the reader. Writing turns into short essays with evidence. Here is what it covers, where kids usually get stuck, and one way to help.