Algebra 1A
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Week of 6/18-6/20
Good luck on your finals. We will have a comprehensive final exam for the school year content.
Enjoy your summer break. You have access to IXL all summer long. Please see me or write down your log-in before leaving for break.
Week of 6/11-6/15
Students are reviewing course content to prepare for the final exam.
Week of 6/4-6/8
Students will need to differentiate between arithmetic and geometric number sequences, find the common difference/ration, find the value of a term, and find what term equals a particular value. They will need to write each in recursive and explicit form.
Week of 5/28-6/1
Students will be working on solving a system of linear equations using graphing, elimination, and substitution.
Week of 5/21-5/25
Students will be working on writing linear equations in slope intercept form, point-slope form, and standard form.
Students will need to differentiate between arithmetic and geometric number sequences, find the common difference/ration, find the value of a term, and find what term equals a particular value. They will need to write each in recursive and explicit form.
Week of 5/14-5/18
Students will need to differentiate between arithmetic and geometric number sequences, find the common difference/ration, find the value of a term, and find what term equals a particular value. They will need to write each in recursive and explicit form.
Week of 5/7-5/11
Students are working on direct and inverse variation equations.
Week of 4/30-5/4
Students are working on direct and inverse variation equations.
Week of 4/23-4/27
Students will be completing work with dimensional analysis. There will be an assessment this week before moving on to our next unit.
Week of 4/16-4/20
Students are working on the metric system in order to continue their work with dimensional analysis.
Week of 4/9-4/13
Enjoy your spring break!
Week of 4/2-4/6
Students are beginning work with dimensional analysis to understand how it works and how to use it to effectively convert from one unit to another.
Week of 3/26-3/30
Students are working on solving proportions with variables on one or both sides.
Week of 3/19-3/23
Students are working on finding the constant of proportionality and working with word problems.
Week of 3/12-3/16
Students are working on finding rates, equivalent rates, and solving word problems involving ratios.
Week of 3/5-3/9
Students are working on finding rates, equivalent rates, and solving word problems involving ratios.
Week of 2/26-3/2
Students are working on classifying numbers as real, rational, irrational, integers, whole numbers, and/or natural numbers.
Week of 2/19-2/23
Students are working on classifying numbers as real, rational, irrational, integers, whole numbers, and/or natural numbers.
Week of 2/12-2/16
Students are working on classifying numbers as real, rational, irrational, integers, whole numbers, and/or natural numbers.
Week of 2/5-2/9
Students are working on solving equations with variables on both sides, including no solution, infinitely many solutions, and zero.
Week of 1/30-2/2
Students are working on solving equations with variables on both sides, including no solution, infinitely many solutions, and zero.
Week of 1/22-1/26
Good luck on your classroom finals! Students will be taking an assessment related to math concepts on IXL as a diagnostic test rather than a traditional final exam.
Week of 1/16-1/19
Students are working on two step and multi-step equations.
Week of 1/8-1/12
Students are working on how to solve one step equations using algebraic principles. Some students are working on more advanced skills, such as two step and multi-step equations.
Week of 1/2-1/5
Students are working on how to solve one step equations using algebraic principles. Some students are working on more advanced skills, such as two step and multi-step equations.
Week of 12/11-12/15
Students will continue to solidify understanding of simplifying expressions and begin working on solving for a variable in equations. Students may turn in extra credit packet on 12/18.
Week of 12/18-12/20
Students will be reviewing classroom content.
Week of 12/4-12/8
Students are working on combining like terms and/or using the distributive property to simplify an expression. Students may turn in extra credit packet on 12/11.
Week of 11/27-12/1
Students are finishing their work with square roots and are working on beginning algebra skills- what is a constant, what is a variable, what are like terms, what does it mean to simplify an expression. Students may turn in extra credit packet on 12/4.
Week of 11/20-11/24
Students are working on learning their perfect squares from 1-20 for use with square roots. Students are working on squaring a number, taking the square root of a perfect square, deciding what to whole numbers a non-perfect square comes between, and factoring out perfect squares from large numbers.
Week of 11/13-11/17
Students are working on order of operations with and without exponents.
Week of 11/6-11/10
Students are working on order of operations with and without exponents.
Week of 10/30-11/3
Students are continuing to work on laws of exponents, including the power rule, product rule, and quotient rule. Students are learning how to apply these skills to different types of monomials (such as a base of 3, x, 3x, or abc).
Week of 10/23-10/27
Students are continuing to work on laws of exponents, including the power rule, product rule, and quotient rule. Students are learning how to apply these skills to different types of monomials (such as a base of 3, x, 3x, or abc).
Week of 10/16-10/20
This week will be working on laws of exponents.
Week of 10/9-10/13
This week's focus is on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions. Test on 10/10. All tests can be retaken. Brief review of how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide with decimals.
Week of 10/2-10/6
This week's focus is on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions.
Week of 9/25-9/29
Building upon working with integers, we will be expanding the number system to rational numbers where students will be working with fractions and decimals. This week will be rebuilding fraction mastery.
Week of 9/18-9/22
Essential skill students are continuing to work on is integer rules. They were assessed and may retake this assessment until earning mastery of the skill set.
Week of 9/11-9/15
This week was dedicated to using manipulatives and number lines to deduct and reason algorithms to remember how to think about integer rules.
Week of 9/6-9/8
This week we began pre-assessments to gauge mastery of middle school common core standards, as they will be built upon in Algebra 1.