Algebra+I

__**Welcome to Mrs. Lancaster's Algebra I Page!**__ **Textbook:** __Algebra I__ (McGraw-Hill, et al, 2005). This is to be //covered// and left at home unless otherwise directed!
 * GENERAL INFORMATION **

**Supplies needed Daily:** Sharpened #2 pencils, Folder/1-inch 3-ring binder, Notebook paper, Agenda **//__Optional Supplies:__//** //Graphing Calculator, Ruler, Colored Pencils, Markers, Scissors, Glue Stick//

**Evaluation****:** Your math grade will be determined in the following way: ~ **Tests/Projects**: 40% ~ **Classwork**: 30% ~ **Quizzes**: 20% ~ **Homework**: 10% //Grades will be updated weekly using the Pinnacle online grading program.//

**Class expectations****:** Failure to follow the classroom and/or school rules will result in one or more of the following consequences: verbal warning, student/teacher conference after class and completing a T.O.S. slip, parent/guardian contact, after-school detention, and/or office referral.
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Students are to try their best, in and out of class, to master the curriculum. Your attitude, not your aptitude, best determines your altitude!
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Students are to do their own work. (A parent/guardian will be notified in the case of //any// failure to meet this expectation.)
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Character Counts! Students are to demonstrate trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship at all times!
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Students are to notify me when they have a concern about their learning, my teaching, or any aspect of class which may be preventing them from achieving their potential.

<span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**QUIZZES/TESTS/CRES:**
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Quizzes will be given periodically throughout each unit. The material covered will follow from homework and classwork assignments. Therefore, if you do not complete your homework, you are not likely to pass the quizzes.
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Tests will be given at the end of each unit and will be announced at least 3 days before. Tests must be signed by a parent and returned to the teacher. Tests not returned will be followed up with a phone call home.
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Frederick County CRES Assessments are given in January and May/June. Assessment scores should reflect student mastery of the material presented. They will be used for placement recommendations for high school. The average of the CRES tests will be reported on your year-end report card. An average of a 60% is required to get high school credit for this class.

<span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**HOMEWORK POLICY:**
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">You can expect math homework about 4 days a week (Mon-Thurs).
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Homework will be checked the day after it is assigned. I will be checking homework for completeness. If all of the assignment is complete, you receive 3 points. If most of the assignment is complete, or it is one day late, you receive 2 points. If only part of the assignment is complete or it is two days late, you receive 1 point. I will __NOT__ accept homework after two days!!
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">If you are absent, it is your responsibility to find out the homework assignment and make up the homework assignment within 2 days.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">SYLLABUS **

<span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**__SEMESTER 1__**
<span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Unit 1: The Language of Algebra (Sections 1.1-1.6)**
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Writing Expressions and Equations from Words/symbols
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Algebra Vocabulary
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Order of Operations
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Distributive Property

<span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Unit** **2: Real Numbers and Matrices (Sections 2.1-2.4, 13.2)**
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Number Line
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Rational Number Operations
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Matrix Operations

<span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Unit 3: Solving Linear Equations (Sections 3.1-3.6, 3.8, 6.5)**
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">One-, Two-, and Multi-Step Equations
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Combining Like Terms
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Equations to Model Real Life
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Literal Equations
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Absolute Value Equations
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Defining and Solving Ratios and Proportions

<span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Unit 4: Solving Linear Inequalities in One Variable (Sections 6.1-6.4)**
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Graphing Inequalities on the number line
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Solving simple one variable inequalities
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Solve and graph compound inequalities

<span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Unit 5: Graph Interpretation, Functions, Patterns, and Multiple Representations (Sections 1.8, 4.3, 4.4, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 10.7)**
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Recognizing and Continuing Linear, Simple Quadratic, Simple Cubic, Arithmetic, and Geometric Patterns
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Numeric, Graphical, Algebraic, Symbolic, and Geometrical Representation of patterns
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Find and Write Expression for the nth term from a table or graph
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Understanding Relations
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Create Patterns from Real World Problems
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Defining Functions and Function Notation
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Evaluating Functions for a given value
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Maximums, Minimums, Zeroes, Continuity
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Function Behavior

<span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Unit 6: Graphing Linear Equations and Inequalities in Two Variables (Sections 4.1, 4.5, 5.1, 5.3, 6.6)**
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Graph lines from an equation, table of values, intercepts, and slope and y-intercept
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Graph given a point and slope
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Slope
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Graphing linear inequalities in two variables

<span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**__SEMESTER 2__**
<span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Unit 7: Writing Linear Equations/Line of Best Fit (Sections 5.3-5.7)**
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Find equation given Point and Slope, Two Points, and Graph
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Equations of Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Scatter plots, Correlation, and Line of Best Fit

<span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Unit 8: Linear Systems/Systems of Linear Inequalities (Sections 7.1-7.5)**
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Definition of System
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Solutions (None, One, Infinite)
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Solving Systems Using Graphing, Substitution, and Elimination
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Set-up and solve Real world problems
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Graphing Systems of Linear Inequalities

<span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Unit 9: Data Analysis (Sections 1.9, 2.5, 13.3-13.5)**
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Find Mean, Median, Mode, and Range of a data set.
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Determine the best measure of central tendency
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Analyze and Graph Box-and-Whisker, Line, and Stem-and-Leaf Plots
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Describe variation: range, interquartile range
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Find missing piece of data given the mean
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Use and misuse of statistics

<span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Unit 10: Probability (Sections 2.6, 14.1, 14.3)**
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Simple Probability
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Compound Probability

<span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Unit 11: Experimental Design (Sections 13.1, 14.5)**
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Experimental Design using spinners, number cubes, coins, random number tables and other manipulatives
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Sampling and bias
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Simple random sampling
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Theoretical vs. Experimental

<span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Unit 12: Powers and Exponents (Sections 8.1-8.3)**
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Operations with exponents
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Properties of exponents
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Scientific notation

<span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Unit 13: Polynomials and Factoring (Sections 8.4-8.7, 9.1-9.3)**
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Adding and subtracting polynomials
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Multiplying polynomials
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Find and factor the Greatest Common Factor (GCF)
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Factor polynomials
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Solve quadratic equations

<span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Unit 14: Simplifying Radicals (Sections 11.1, 11.2)**
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Simplify radical expressions
 * <span style="color: #d40808; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Add, subtract, and multiply radical expressions

<span style="color: #d40808; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">**__Important Dates__** <span style="color: #d40808; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">**January**: CRES #1 (covers Units 1-6) <span style="color: #d40808; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">**May 23, 2012**: Algebra High School Assessment (covers Units 1-11) <span style="color: #d40808; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">**June**: CRES #2 (covers Units 7-14)