Math  2025 - 2026

 August - September

Welcome back!!

Students will familiarize themselves with the expectations of the class.

Students will start the year by learning about how to determine coordinates that represent the image of a polygon or line segment in the coordinate plane after a transformation.   They will then learn how to draw and label the image of figures that result from translations, rotations, and reflections on a square or isometric grid.  They finally explain the sequence of transformations that takes one figure to its image.  

October

Students will continue learning concepts discussed in Unit 1, such as angles in a triangle and angles that are formed when a pair of parallel lines intersect with a transversal.  They will learn which angles formed are supplementary angles, vertical angles, and alternate interior angles.  After the unit test, students will proceed to Unit 2, where they will learn about dilation. 

Students will expand their understanding of transformations to include non-rigid transformations. Specifically, they will learn to make and describe dilations of figures. A dilation is a process to make a scaled copy of a figure, and it is described using a center point and a number (the scale factor). The scale factor can be any positive number, including fractions and decimals. 

November

Students will continue with Unit 2, where they will investigate what it means for two figures to be similar. Similarity in mathematics means there is a sequence of translations, rotations, reflections, and dilations that takes one figure to the other. There are always many different sequences of transformations that can show that two figures are similar.  

Students will then use what they have learned about similar triangles to define the slope of a line. A slope triangle for a line is a triangle whose longest side lies on the line and whose other two sides are vertical and horizontal.  Students will learn that all slope triangles for a line have the same quotient between their vertical and horizontal sides, and this number is called the slope of the line.  

December

Students will proceed to Unit 3, where they will learn what proportional relationships are and how to express and compare the proportional relationships using graphs, equations, tables, and descriptions.  The students will also be taught how to find the slope of a line given two points on a line.   

The students will then learn how to write equations representing linear relationships. A linear relationship exists between two quantities when one quantity has a constant rate of change with respect to the other. The relationship is called linear because its graph is a line. 

January and February

Students continue working on linear relationships by determining equations of lines and relationships of lines based on the linear equations.  

The students then move to Unit 4 where they will learn about how to solve linear equations in one variable.  

March

Students will solve systems of linear equations by graphing and algebraically.  They will then learn about functions.  They will learn how to determine if an equation, a graph, or a table is a function.  They will also evaluate functions in equation and function notation form.   

April

Students will learn about exponent rules and scientific notation.  

Algebra  2025 - 2026

August - September

Welcome back!!

Students will familiarize themselves with the expectations of the class.

Students will start the school year by learning about one-variable statistics.  They will learn how to create and interpret data displays such as dot plots, histograms, and box plots.  They will then learn how to describe the shape of a distribution, including a measure of center and a measure of variability.  They will then complete the unit by learning about standard deviation as a measure of variability.  

October

Students will complete Unit 1 by comparing data sets before taking their Unit 1 test.  In Unit 2, the students will learn how to solve equations with one variable and understand what an equation is and what a solution of an equation means.  They will learn about how to find the slope of a line, how the slope of a line describes the line, and how to write equations of lines that have direct or indirect proportions.   The students will also learn how to learn about proportional and non-proportional linear relationships and write equations of lines in slope-intercept form.  

November

Students will continue working on solving equations by rewriting them using operations that do not change the equivalence, combining like terms, and applying the distributive property. 

They will then graph equations in slope-intercept form and interpret the slope and vertical intercept in context.  They will also learn how to express equations of standard lines.  

December

Students will solve systems of linear equations by graphing, substitution, and elimination.  They will apply this concept by solving real-life problems.  

January

Students will solve and graph linear inequalities, compound inequalities, and then graph solutions for systems of linear inequalities in two variables.  

The students will then do the Midterm Test as one of the assessments that determines high school math placement.

February

Students will learn about relations, functions, independent and dependent variables.  They will analyze graphs of different functions and determine the domain and range of different real-life situations.  

March 

Students will learn how to solve, graph, and check absolute value equations and how to graph absolute value equations.  Given absolute value solutions, students will write absolute value equations of these solutions.  The students will also learn about piece-wise graphs in real-life situations.  After the Unit 5 Assessments, students will start working on exponent rules and selected geometry topics in readiness for the Math MCAS.  

April

Students learn more about exponent rules, scientific notation, and the Pythagorean Theorem.  They will then learn about rigid transformations such as translation, reflection, and rotation.