Algebra I - Week 1

Monday

Bell Ringer

• Please sit in the assigned seat and get a book
• Cover your book
• Complete the prerequisite skills review

Objectives

• Understand classroom policies and grading procedures
• Developing strategies for technical reading
• Develop basic math skills
• Evaluate a variable expression
• Write a variable expression that models a real-life situation

Agenda

• Bell Ringer
• Seating charts
• Class rules (on wall)
• Grading policies
• Parents info sheet
• Materials needed by Wednesday
  • 3 ring binder
  • Loose leaf paper
  • Pencil
  • Scientific calculator
  • Covered Book
• Logging on to the Network - Computer Rules ect.
• Basic operations with signed numbers -3 minutes
• Grading scale
• Computer activity -Set up Gizmos accounts
  • Using Algebraic Expressions Gizmo
• Move back to the tables
• Closure

Assignment

 

Tuesday

Bell Ringer

Online resources

Objectives

• Evaluate expressions containing exponents
• Use the order of operations to evaluate algebraic expressions
• Use a technology to evaluate real-life expressions
• Evaluate expressions containing exponents

Agenda

• Bell Ringer
• Parent note collection
• Activity 1 Lesson opener
• Strategies for reading mathematics
• Examples 1-5 SE page 3-5
• Guided Practice pg 6
• Lesson 1.1: 19-39, 45-47, 50-68 evens
• Help with 35-39 http://classzone.com/books/algebra_1/page_build.cfm?content=lesson1_ps_ch1&ch=1
• Chapter 1 vocabulary
  • pg 2
• Chapter 1 - Rules for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing signed numbers
  • Adding
    • same signs
    • opposite signs
  • Subtracting
  • Multiplying
    • even number of negatives
    • odd number of negatives
  • Dividing
    • even number of negatives
    • odd number of negatives
• Closure

Assignment

Lesson 1.1: 19-39, 45-47, 50-68 evens

Wednesday

Bell Ringer

Homework check- review preskills

Objectives

• Subsets of Real numbers
• Rules for adding and subtracting numbers
• Check solutions and solve equations and inequalities using mental math
• Translate a verbal phrase into an Algebraic expression

Agenda

Bell ringer

Homework check

Vocabulary check and print out

Chapter 1 - Rules for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing signed numbers

• Adding
  • same signs
  • opposite signs
• Subtracting
• Multiplying
  • even number of negatives
  • odd number of negatives
• Dividing
  • even number of negatives
  • odd number of negatives

 

Practice Math Facts

Grading scale

Sets of numbers reading

 

Assignment

 

Thursday

Bell Ringer

Sets of numbers reading

Objectives -

• Order of operations
• Exponent rules

Agenda

Bell Ringer

Vocabulary - sets of numbers - Standard assessment on Friday

Set of Numbers	Variable	Members of the set / definition
Real
Rational
Irrational
Integer
Whole
Natural

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Chapter 1 vocabulary - Flip Cards

Gizmos - Exponents - Order of operations

 

Assignment

Problem solving strategy pg 31

• pg 31 : 1-3

Review for state assessment

 

Friday

Bell Ringer

State Standards Assessment

Objectives -

• Check solutions and solve equations and inequalities using mental math
• Translate Verbal Phrases into Algebraic expressions
• Use tables to organize data
• Use graphs to organize real life data
• Identify a function and make an input-output table for a function

Agenda

Bell Ringer

Equations and Inequalities Examples pg 24+

Review and practice in groups at tables pg 28+

• Verbal to written problems :56-64
• Applying Formulas : 69-76
• Mixed Review : 84 -100

Tables and graphs pg 40-42 examples

Creating graphs using excel

USDA data on food consumption

Create one of each of the following charts

1. Bar
2. Stacked bar
3. Pie
4. Line

Assignment

Put the four charts in Word and include a paragraph summary of what the graph shows.

 

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