How are pre-Algebra skills used within the trade that I plan on entering into?
Critical Thinking
Adaptive Perseverance
What is the meaning of signed numbers?
How do I add signed numbers?
How do I subtract signed numbers?
How do I multiply and divide signed numbers?
What are exponents and how do I use them when calculating expressions?
What is the order of operations?
What is a square root and how do I find it?
What do I need to do in order to solve practical applications involving pre-algebra skills?
Understand what it means for a number to be negative.
Add any combination of positive and negative numbers.
Subtract any combination of positive and negative numbers.
Multiply or divide any combination of positive and negative numbers.
Calculate exponents
Use the order of operations to simplify expressions.
Find square roots of numbers.
Read and understand various scenarios in order to solve the practical application provided.
Mental math
Calculator skills
Spreadsheet Implementation
Collaboration
NH State Standards Addressed:
8.EE.A Work with radicals and integer exponents.
6.NS.C Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers.
6.EE.A Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions.
HSA-SSE Seeing Structure in Expressions
HSA-APR Arithmetic with Polynomials and Rational Expressions
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