Pre-Algebra
MAJOR TOPICS:
1. Introduction to Algebra, variables, tables, graphs, and symbols
2. Understanding similarity and congruence
3. Rates, ratios, proportions, percents and proportional reasoning
4. Understanding and using integers
5. Understanding surface area and volume
MATHEMATICS OBJECTIVES: Students will:
1. learn to value mathematics.
2. learn to reason mathematically.
3. become confident in their ability to do math.
4. become problem solvers.
5. learn to communicate mathematically.
MATHEMATICAL CONTENT GOALS: The students will:
1. understand number sense and reasoning; operations with numbers; estimation; ratios, proportions, and percents; representations of numbers.
2. develop spatial sense and reasoning.
3. use measurement, including concepts of length, area and volume.
4. develop algebraic reasoning.
5. interpret data using various methods.
MATHEMATICAL PROCESS GOALS: The students will:
1. use mental computation, estimation, counting principles, calculators, and formal algorithm in various applications.
2. recognize and describe shapes, size, and position of one, two and three- dimensional objects
3. determine reasonableness of answers.
4. bring to any problem situation the ability to observe, experiment, analyze, generalize, relate, manipulate, and probe important patterns.
5. inquire, investigate, conjecture, and communicate with others about mathematical ideas.
6. select and use intelligently - calculators, computers and physical models to represent, simulate, and manipulate patterns and relations in problem settings.
MAJOR TOPICS:
1. Introduction to Algebra, variables, tables, graphs, and symbols
2. Understanding similarity and congruence
3. Rates, ratios, proportions, percents and proportional reasoning
4. Understanding and using integers
5. Understanding surface area and volume
MATHEMATICS OBJECTIVES: Students will:
1. learn to value mathematics.
2. learn to reason mathematically.
3. become confident in their ability to do math.
4. become problem solvers.
5. learn to communicate mathematically.
MATHEMATICAL CONTENT GOALS: The students will:
1. understand number sense and reasoning; operations with numbers; estimation; ratios, proportions, and percents; representations of numbers.
2. develop spatial sense and reasoning.
3. use measurement, including concepts of length, area and volume.
4. develop algebraic reasoning.
5. interpret data using various methods.
MATHEMATICAL PROCESS GOALS: The students will:
1. use mental computation, estimation, counting principles, calculators, and formal algorithm in various applications.
2. recognize and describe shapes, size, and position of one, two and three- dimensional objects
3. determine reasonableness of answers.
4. bring to any problem situation the ability to observe, experiment, analyze, generalize, relate, manipulate, and probe important patterns.
5. inquire, investigate, conjecture, and communicate with others about mathematical ideas.
6. select and use intelligently - calculators, computers and physical models to represent, simulate, and manipulate patterns and relations in problem settings.