Algebra 1 Important Announcements and Information

Unit Plans for the 2009-2010 School Year

First Quarter:
Tools of Algebra
What is a variable?
Why do we need the order of operations?
Why commutative and associative properties work for addition and multiplication and not division and subtraction?
What are inverses and identities?
Linear Equations
Why is it important to be able to write mathematical equations from verbal problems?
What real world models mimic a linear equation model?
What is a scale model and how and why are they used

Second Quarter:
Functions
What is a function? What is not a function?
What is slope?
Solving Systems of Equations
What does the solution to a system of equations mean?

Third Quarter:
Polynomials and Factoring
How do we use the properties of exponents to multiply and divide monomials?
How do we use the distributive property to multiply a monomial and polynomial?
How can we use the distributive property to help us factor polynomials?
Quadratic and Exponential Functions
Why can a quadratic equation have more than one answer?
Do all parabolas have lines of symmetry?
What do the roots of a quadratic equation tell us?
How do certain tranformations change the parent function of y=x^2?

Fourth Quarter:
Inequalities
how is the solution of an equation different from the solution of an inequality?
how can a graph tell us the solution to a system of equations and inequalities?
 Statistics and Probability
What is statistics?
How can advertising claims be misleading?

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