35380/35390 Algebra 1
Course Name: Algebra 1
Course Number: 35380/35390
Credits: 1 Credit
Open to: Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
Length: 2 Semesters
Prerequisite: None
Course content: Algebra aims to deepen and extend student understanding built in previous courses by focusing on developing fluency with solving linear equations, and inequalities, and systems; extending these skills to solving quadratic and exponential functions; exploring functions, including sequences, graphically, numerically, symbolically and verbally; and using regression techniques to analyze the fit of models to distributions of data. On a daily basis, students in Algebra use problem solving strategies, questioning, investigating, analyzing critically, gathering and constructing evidence, and communicating rigorous arguments to justify their thinking. Students learn in collaboration with others, sharing information, expertise, and ideas. The course is well-balanced between procedural fluency (algorithms and basic skills), deep conceptual understanding, strategic competence (problem solving), and adaptive reasoning (extension and transference). Topics covered during this course include simplifying and solving systems of equations, sequences, modeling two-variable data, exponential functions, quadratic functions, quadratics and inequalities, solving complex equations, functions, and data.