RATTAN HIGH SCHOOL

CURRICULUM MAP FOR ALGEBRA 1

MONTH	CONTENT	SKILLS
AUG- SEPT.	NUMBER SENSE & ALGEBRAIC OPERATIONS	(1.2A) SIMPLIFY AND EVALUATE LINEAR AND ABSOLUTE VALUE EXPRESSIONS. (1.2A)SIMPLIFY RATIONAL AND RADICAL EXPRESSIONS. (1.1) TRANSLATE WORD PHRASES AND SENTENCES INTO EXPRESSIONS AND EQUATIONS AND VICE VERSA. (1.2B) SIMPLIFY POLYNOMIALS BY ADDING, SUBTRACTING, OR MULTIPLYING.
OCTOBER	NUMBER SENSE & ALGEBRAIC OPERATIONS, RELATIONS & FUNCTIONS	(1.2B) SIMPLIFY POLYNOMIALS BY ADDING, SUBTRACTING, OR MULTIPLYING. (2.1A) DISTINGUISH BETWEEN LINEAR AND NONLINEAR DATA. (3.2) COLLECT DATA INVOLVING TWO VARIABLES AND DISPLAY ON A SCATTER PLOT; INTERPRET RESULTS USING A LINEAR MODEL/EQUATION AND IDENTIFY WHETHER THE MODEL/EQUATION IS A LINE BEST FIT FOR THE DATA (e.g. given a scatter plot and several linear equations, which one is the best fit?) (2.6A) SOLVE LINEAR EQUATIONS BY GRAPHING OR USING PROPERTIES OF EQUALITY. (2.6B) SOLVE LINEAR INEQUALITIES BY GRAPHING OR USING PROPERTIES OF INEQUALITIES. (2.6C)MATCH APPROPRIATE EQUATIONS OR INEQUALITIES (WITH 1 OR 2 VARIABLES) TO A GRAPH, TABLE, OR SITUATION AND VICE VERSA.
NOVEMBER	RELATIONS AND FUNCTIONS	(2.1B)DISTINGUISH BETWEEN RELATIONS AND FUNCTIONS. (2.1C)IDENTIFY DEPENDENT AND INDEPENDENT VARIABLES, DOMAIN AND RANGE. (2.1D)EVALUATE A FUNCTION USING TABLES, EQUATIONS, OR GRAPHS. (2.3)CALCULATE THE SLOPE OF A LINE USING A GRAPH, AN EQUATION, TWO POINTS OR A SET OF DATA POINTS.
DECEMBER	RELATIONS AND FUNCTIONS	(2.4) DEVELOP THE EQUATION OF A LINE AND GRAPH LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS GIVEN THE FOLLOWING: v SLOPE AND Y-INTERCEPT v SLOPE AND ONE POINT ON THE LINE v TWO POINTS ON THE LINE v X-INTERCEPT AND Y-INTERCEPT v A SET OF DATA POINTS
JANUARY	RELATIONS AND FUNCTIONS	(2.5A) USE THE SLOPE TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN LINES THAT ARE PARALLEL, PERPENDICULAR, HORIZONTAL, OR VERTICAL. (2.5B) INTERPRET THE SLOPE AND INTERCEPTS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF EVERYDAY LIFE (e.g. telephone charges based on base rate [y-intercept] plus rate per minute [slope]). (2.2) RECOGNIZE THE PARENT GRAPH OF THE FUNCTIONS, y=k, y=x, y=|x| and predict the effects of transformations on the parent graph (e.g. y=|x| + 2, change slope, change intercepts, change slope and intercept). (2.8) PROBLEM SOLVING USING CONCEPTS SUCH AS RULES OF EXPONENTS, PROBABILITY, RATE, DISTANCE, RATIO AND PROPORTION, MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY AND PERCENT.
FEBRUARY	RELATIONS AND FUNCTIONS	(2.7) SOLVE A SYSTEM OF LINEAR EQUATIONS BY GRAPHING, SUBSTITUTION, OR ELIMINATION. (2.9A) MATCH EXPONENTIAL AND QUADRATIC FUNCTIONS TO A TABLE, GRAPH OR SITUATION AND VICE VERSA. (2.9B) SOLVE QUADRATIC EQUATIONS BY GRAPHING, FACTORING, OR USING THE QUADRATIC FORMULA.
MARCH	DATA ANALYSIS & STATISTICS	(3.1A) TRANSLATE FROM ONE REPRESENTATION OF DATA TO ANOTHER AND UNDERSTAND THAT THE DATA CAN BE REPRESENTED USING A VARIETY OF TABLES, GRAPHS, OR SYMBOLS AND THAT DIFFERENT MODES OF REPRESENTATION OFTEN CONVVEY DIFFERENT MESSAGES. (3.1B) MAKE VALID INFERENCES, PREDICTIONS, AND/OR ARGUMENTS BASED ON DATA FROM GRAPHS, TABLES, AND CHARTS. REVIEW BY WORKING SAMPLE TEST ITEMS FOR THE (EOI).
APRIL	EOI REVIEW	REVIEW BY WORKING SAMPLE TEST ITEMS FOR THE (EOI). REVIEW BY REINFORCING MAJOR CONCEPTS COVERED ON THE (EOI).
MAY	PROBLEM SOLVING	(2.8) SOLVE TWO-STEP AND THREE-STEP PROBLEMS USING CONCEPTS SUCH AS RULES OF EXPONENTS, PROBABILITY, RATE, DISTANCE, RATIO AND PROPORTION, MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY, AND PERCENT. (2.8) USE THE FORMULAS FROM MEASURABLE ATTRIBUTES OF GEOMETRIC MODELS (PERIMETER, CIRCUMFERENCE, AREA, AND VOLUME), SCIENCE, AND STATISTICS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS WITHIN AN ALGEBRAIC CONTEXT. PREPARE FOR ALGEBRA 2 BY SOLVING QUADRATIC EQUATIONS AND MAKING PREDICTIONS BY ANALYZING THE EQUATION OR GRAPH.