Supplies
Student Necessities
- 1.5 inch - 2 inch three-ring binder
- Loose leaf paper (200 sheets minimum)
- Dividers (3)
- A pocket folder with prongs
- Cap erasers (&/or 2 large pink erasers)
- Pencils (at least 72)
- Highlighter
- Scientific calculator for home use (Ti-30xa is what we use in class and for State tests)
Class Wish List
- Tissues
- Disinfecting Wipes (ie Clorox Wipes)
- Expo Markers (dry erase)
- Extra loose leaf paper
- Extra pencils
- Paper Towels
What are we learning this year?
Syllabus for Algebra I Honors
Quarter 1
Quarter 2
Quarter 3
Quarter 4
Quarter 1
- Review of Pre-Algebra
- Expressions
- Solving Multi-Step equations
- Solving equations with variables on both sides
- Solving Absolute Value equations
- Writing and graphing inequalities
- Solving simple, multi-step, compound and absolute value inequalities
- Introduction to functions
- Domain and range
- Function notation
- Evaluate f(x) given x
- Evaluate x given f(x)
- Linear vs non-linear
- Discrete vs Continuous
Quarter 2
- Graphing linear equations in standard form & slope-intercept form
- Transformations of Linear Functions, transformations of Absolute Value Equations
- Writing Linear Functions
- Writing equations in slope-intercept form
- Writing equations in point-slope form
- Scatterplots and lines of fit
- Arithmetic Sequences
- Piecewise functions
- Solving Systems of Linear Equations by graphing
- Graphing linear inequalities
- Solving systems of inequalities
Quarter 3
- Measures of center and deviation
- Dot Plots, Histograms and box-and-whisker plots
- Two-way tables
- Properties of exponents
- Radicals and Rational Exponents
- Exponential Functions, Exponential growth and decay
- Geometric Sequences
Quarter 4
- Graphing Quadratics
- In Standard form
- In Vertex form
- Comparing linear, exponential and quadratic functions
- Polynomials
- Adding and Subtracting polynomials
- Multiplying polynomials
- Factoring and solving quadratics
- Factoring completely using intercept form
- Identifying Zeros (solutions) of factored polynomials, from a graph
- Using square roots
- Simplifying radicals
- Completing the square
- The Quadratic Formula
- Solving radical equations
- Finding Inverse Functions (honors)