1)      REVIEW OF BASIC CONCEPTS MAKING A CONNECTION TO ALGEBRA: (3 WEEKS)

VARIABLES, EXPONENTS AND POWERS, ORDER OF OPERATIONS, EQUATIONS AND INEQUALITIES, WORD MEANINGS OF MATHEMATICAL SYMBOLS, TABLES AND GRAPHS, FUNCTIONS AND PROBLEM SOLVING

2)      PROPERTIES OF REAL NUMBERS: (4 WEEKS)

REAL NUMBER LINE, ABSOLUTE VALUE, OPERATIONS WITH REAL NUMBERS, DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY, COMBINING LIKE TERMS

3)      SOLVING LINEAR EQUATIONS: (4 WEEKS)

SOLVING EQUATIONS, FORMULAS, RATIOS AND RATES, PERCENTS

4)      GRAPHING LINEAR EQUATIONS AND FUNCTIONS: (4 WEEKS)

CARTESIAN (RECTANGULAR) COORDINATE PLANE, GRAPHING LINEAR EQUATIONS (INCLUDING VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL), DOUBLE INTERCEPT METHOD, SLOPE INTERCEPT METHOD, DIRECT VARIATION, FUNCTIONS AND RELATIONS

5)      WRITING LINEAR EQUATIONS: (3 WEEKS)

POINT SLOPE FORM, WRITING AN EQUATION GIVEN TWO POINTS, STANDARD FORM, MODELING LINEAR EQUATIONS, PERPENDICULAR LINES

6)      SOLVING AND GRAPHING LINEAR INEQUALITIES: (3 WEEKS)

SOLVING INEQUALITIES (INCLUDING COMPOUND INEQUALITIES), ABSOLUTE VALUE INEQUALITIES, GRAPHING LINEAR INEQUALITIES

GRADING WILL BE BY CATEGORY:

              HOMEWORK                      25%

              QUIZZES                            25%

              TESTS                                 50%

GRADING SCALE

94-100                                            A

87-93                                               B

80-86                                               C

70-79                                               D

BELOW 70                                        F

CLASSROOM RULES:

1)      I WILL ATTEMPT TO TREAT YOU WITH THE UTMOST RESPECT, AND I EXPECT YOU TO TREAT ME WITH RESPECT IN RETURN.

2)      WITH YOUR HELP, WE WILL TRY TO ELIMINATE CONTROLLABLE DISTRACTIONS.

3)      NO FOOD OR DRINKS WILL BE ALLOWED. WATER IN A SEALED CONTAINER IS THE ONLY EXCEPTION TO THIS RULE.

4)      CHEWING GUM WILL BE ACCEPTABLE, AS LONG AS YOU FIND A TRASH RECEPTACLE FOR IT AND THE WRAPPER WHEN YOU ARE DONE. WHEN I FIND GUM WRAPPERS OR GUM IN INAPPROPRIATE PLACES, THIS PRIVILEGE WILL BE ELIMINATED.

I AM PLEASED THAT YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO TAKE THIS CLASS. I HOPE THAT YOU ARE PREPARED TO WORK. I CAN’T MAKE THE MATERIAL EASY FOR YOU, BUT I WILL TRY EVERYTHING I CAN THINK OF TO HELP YOU. IF YOU ARE WILLING TO MAKE THE EFFORT, I BELIEVE THAT YOU WILL FIND THAT YOU CAN BE SUCCESSFUL. SOME MAY NOT COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND EVERY SINGLE THING WE DO, BUT ALL SHOULD SEE IMPROVEMENT IN THEIR UNDERSTANDING. FOR THE MOST PART, MATH IS A SEQUENTIAL SUBJECT, SO MY GOAL IS TO KEEP EVERYONE MOVING DOWN THE PATH, NO MATTER WHERE YOU STARTED!