Month

Content/Topic

Skills

Assessment

·        Standard

September

• Fractions and Fractals

• Data Exploration

• Review operations with fractions
• Review operations with integers
• Use exponents model growth in patterns
• Explore fractals, iteration, and recursion

• Interpret and compare a variety of graphs
• Calculate, interpret, and compare summary values for a data set
• Create, interpret, and compare graphical displays of data
• Review how to graph points on a plane
• Organize and compute with matrices
• Make and test conjectures about a data set

• Group investigations
• Daily homework
• Quiz
• Test
• Fractal Project
• Chapter summary
• Using Sketchpad

• Group investigations
• Daily homework
• Quiz
• Test
• Conjecture Project
• Chapter summary
• Graphing calculator activities

• A.12.1, B.12.3, D.12.3, F.12.1, F.12.2

• A.12.2, A.12.3, A.12.5, E.12.1, E.12.2, E.12.3,

October

• Proportional reasoning, probability, and percent

• Set up and solve proportions
• Use proportions to make predictions
• Use conversion factors and dimensional analysis
• Create and interpret circle graphs
• Use scale factors to enlarge/reduce objects

• Group investigations
• Daily homework
• Quiz
• Golden Ratio Project

• B.12.2, B.12.5, D.12.3

November

·         Probability

·         Variation and Graphs

·         Linear Equations

• Determine observed and theoretical probabilities
• Use probabilities to describe patterns

• Use rates to make predictions
• Study how quantities vary directly and inversely
• Use equations and graphs to represent variation
• Solve real-world problems using variation

• Review order of operations and distributive property
• Describe number tricks using algebraic expressions
• Write recursive routines
• Study rate of change
• Solve linear equations by undoing operations and balancing

• Daily homework
• Group investigations
• Test

·         Chapter summary

• Group investigations
• Daily homework
• Quiz
• Families of Rectangles Project
• Test

·         Chapter summary

• Group investigations
• Daily homework
• Quiz

• E.12.5

• B.12.2, B.12.5, E.12.5, D.12, F.12.1, F.12.2, F.12.4

• A.12.4, B.12.2, B.12.3, B.12.4, C.12.2, F.12

December

• Linear Equations

• Fitting a Line to Data

·         Write linear equations in intercept form for lines

·         Use equations and tables to graph lines

·         Solve linear equations

·         Define and calculate slope

·         Write an equation for line-of –fit

·         Learn slope-intercept form of a line

• Group investigations
• Daily homework
• Quiz
• Test
• Conjecture Project
• Chapter summary
• Graphing calculator activities

·         Daily homework

·         Group investigation

·         F.12.1-4

·         C.12.4, E.12.2, F.12.2, F.12.4

January

• Fitting a line to data

• Systems of Equations and Inequalities

·         Learn point-slope form of a line

·         Study equivalent linear equations

·         Find line-of-fit using eyeballing, point-slope and linear regression on the calculator

·         Learn to solve systems of equations using substitution

• Group investigations
• Daily homework
• Quiz
• Test
• Bungee Jump Activity
• Chapter summary

• Daily homework

·         C.12.4, E.12.2, F.12.2, F.12.4

February

• Systems of Equations and Inequalities

• Exponents and Exponential Models

·         Solve systems using elimination

·         Solve systems using graphing and tracing

·         Solve systems using tables

·         Graph inequalities in one and two variables

·         Solve systems of linear inequalities

·         Write recursive routines for nonlinear sequences

·         Learn equations for exponential growth and decay

• Group investigations
• Daily homework
• Quiz
• Test
• Portfolio Project
• Chapter summary

• Group investigations
• Daily homework
• Quiz

·         A. 12.5, B.12.2, B. 12.4, F.12.1 - F.12.4

March

• Exponents and Exponential Models

• Functions

·         Use properties of exponents to rewrite expressions

·         Write numbers in scientific notation

·         Model real-life data with exponential equations

·         Investigate definition, notation, properties, and graphs of functions

·         Construct and interpret graphs and functions that describe real-world situations

·         Evaluate functions using substitution, graphing calculators, and graphs

·         Learn vocabulary relating to functions

·         Learn about the absolute value function and its graph

·         Learn about the squaring and square root functions

·         Explore the parabola as a graph of the squaring function

• Group investigations
• Daily homework
• Test
• Automobile Depreciation Project
• Chapter summary

• Group investigations
• Daily homework
• Quiz
• Test
• Binary Number System Project
• Chapter summary

·         A.12.1, A.12.5, B.12.3, B.12.5, C.12.2, F.12.1, F.12.2, F.12.4

·         A.12.1, A.12.2, A.12.3, A.12.5, A.12.6, B.12.3, B.12.5, F.12.2, F.12.4

·        April

• Transformations

• Quadratic Models

·         Learn to how to graph polygons on graphing calculators

·         Use list definitions to move polygons

·         Learn to transform graphs by translating, reflecting, and dilating

·         Write equations of transformed function graphs

·         Explore the concept of a parent function and its family

·         Model real-world data with equations of transformations

·         Investigate rational functions and basic transformations of this function

·         Use quadratic functions to model projectile motion and other real-world data

·         Find the x-intercepts and vertex of a parabola by graphical and symbolic methods

• Group investigations
• Daily homework
• Quiz
• Test
• Binary Number System Project

·         Summary posters

• Group investigations
• Daily homework
• Quiz

·         A.12.1, C.12.1, F.12.2, F.12.4

·         F.12.2,3,4

·        May

• Quadratic Models

• Introduction to Geometry

·         Convert quadratic among the vertex, factored and general forms

·         Solve quadratic equations using graphs, tables and symbolic methods (including the quadratic formula)

·         Learn to multiply binomials and factor trinomials using rectangular diagrams

·         Learn concepts, definitions, and symbols important in geometry

·         Use algebra to describe geometric relationships

·         Explore properties of parallel and perpendicular lines

·         Find the coordinates of a line segment’s midpoint

·         Find areas of polygons

·         Apply the Pythagorean Theorem both geometrically and algebraically

·         Calculate the distance between two points by using the Pythagorean Theorem and the distance formula

·         Work with radical expressions

·          Explore right triangle trigonometry and similar triangles

• Test

·         Summary posters

• Group investigations
• Daily homework
• Quiz
• Test

·         Summary notes

·         F.12.2,3,4

B.12.3, B.12.4, C.12.1-5, D.12.3