This book contains the first seven chapters of a pilot mathematics sequence for the seventh and eighth grades. The content of the sequence is to serve as a vehicle for the development of relevant computational skills, mathematical reasoning, and geometric perception in three dimensions and is to reflect the application of mathematics to the social and natural sciences. The material is divided into five types of sections: (1) activities by the whole class, small groups, or individuals; (2) short reading sections; (3) questions; (4) sections for the student with a weaker background; and (5) sections for the strongly motivated student. The material in the first seven chapters includes: simplified maps, length--whole numbers and fractions, angles and their measurement, enlarging and reducing, similar figures, reading maps, quotients and ratios, and area. (MN)