Standards: Connecticut has adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as the Connecticut State Standards (CSS).
Personalized Learning Resources: DreamBox, NWEA Assessment
Standard Assessments: Students take the NWEA Assessment three times a year and Smarter Balanced Assessment in the Spring.
Students will learn to . . .
solve literal equations for a specified variable.
write and solve equations and inequalities for real-world scenarios.
Students will learn to . . .
identify whether or not a pattern is arithmetic.
write a recursive rule for an arithmetic sequence.
write an explicit rule for an arithmetic sequence.
real-world applications of arithmetic sequences.
find a missing term(s) in an arithmetic sequence.
Students will learn to . . .
identify the range and domain of a relation.
determine whether or not a domain is discrete or continuous.
identify independent and dependent variables.
determine whether or not a relation is a function.
interpret graphs of functions.
use function notation.
graph functions and be able to interpret them.
determine if a function is linear or nonlinear.
real-world applications of functions.
Students will learn to . . .
prove whether or not a point is a solution to an equation.
create a table of values for a linear equation.
graph a linear equation from a table of values.
find the slope of a line from a graph, a table, and using slope formula.
find the slope of a line parallel to another line.
find the slope of a line perpendicular to another line.
find the slope of a line given two points.
write and graph an equation of a line in slope-intercept form.
write and graph an equation of a line in standard form.
write and graph an equation of a line in point-slope form.
write and graph a direct proportion equation.
write an equation of a line given two points and from a table of values.
find x and y-intercepts and interpret them in a word problem.
real world application problems including exploration of distance/time graphs using Vernier motion detector.
Students will learn to . . .
solve systems of equations in two variables by graphing.
solve systems of equations in two variables using substitution.
solve systems of equations in two variables using elimination.
check that an ordered pair is a solution to a system of equations.
write a systems of equations to represent a real world scenario.
recognize when a system of equations has no solution, one solution, or infinite solutions.
Students will learn to . . .
determine what it means for a number to be rational or irrational.
determine square and cubes of numbers.
simplify radical expressions.
add, subtract, multiply, and divide radical expressions.
rationalize denominators of radical expressions.
simplify expressions involving rational exponents.
use the Pythagorean Theorem to find unknown side lengths.
solve real world problems using the Pythagorean Theorem.
apply the converse of the Pythagorean Theorem to solve problems.
derive and use the distance formula.
derive and use the midpoint formula.
Students will learn . . .
products of powers
quotients of powers
zero and negative exponents
Students will learn . . .
identify the degree of a polynomial and write it in standard form.
add, subtract, and multiply polynomials.
real world applications.
factor polynomials.
solving polynomial equations.
quadratic formula.
Students will learn to . . .
identify measures of central tendency.
read and construct dot plots, stem and leaf plots, histograms, box and whisker plots.
identify measures of dispersion.
calculate the 5 Number Summary and standard deviation.
apply the 1.5 x IQR rule for finding outliers.
identify the shape of the distribution.
interpolate and extrapolate on a graph.
construct scatterplots and lines of best fit.
interpret the correlation coefficient for a scatterplot.
read and construct two-way tables.