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Perform basic operations with real numbers
Assessment Strategies
by completing assignments, quizzes, lab work, and tests with a satisfactory score as detailed in the grading scale
by active participation in class discussion and activities
Criteria
you add, subtract, multiply, and divide real numbers
you evaluate numerical expressions using exponents
you evaluate expressions containing parenthesis
you evaluate expressions using the order of operations
you evaluate algebraic expressions
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Solve linear equations
Assessment Strategies
by completing assignments, quizzes, lab work, and tests with a satisfactory score as detailed in the grading scale
by active participation in class discussion and activities
Criteria
you identify like terms
you solve one step linear equations
you solve linear equations with the variable on one side of the equation
you solve linear equations with the variable on both sides of the equation
you solve factional equations
you rearrange formulas
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Use formulas to solve problems
Assessment Strategies
by completing assignments, quizzes, lab work, and tests with a satisfactory score as detailed in the grading scale
by active participation in class discussion and activities
Criteria
you solve proportions
you solve application problems using proportions
you solve equations for a specified variable
you find the value of a variable in a given formula
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Use the rules of exponents
Assessment Strategies
by completing assignments, quizzes, lab work, and tests with a satisfactory score as detailed in the grading scale
by active participation in class discussion and activities
Criteria
you simplify expressions using positive exponents
you simplify expressions using negative exponents
you use exponents to express a number in a scientific notation
you change a number from scientific notation to decimal notation
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Perform operations with polynomials
Assessment Strategies
by completing assignments, quizzes, lab work, and tests with a satisfactory score as detailed in the grading scale
by active participation in class discussion and activities
Criteria
you perform addition of polynomials
you perform subtraction of polynomials
you perform multiplication of polynomials
you perform division of polynomials
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Apply factoring methods
Assessment Strategies
by completing assignments, quizzes, lab work, and tests with a satisfactory score as detailed in the grading scale
by active participation in class discussion and activities
Criteria
you find the greatest common factor
you factor binomials
you factor trinomials
you factor polynomials with four terms
you factor polynomials completely
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Perform basic operations with rational expressions
Assessment Strategies
by completing assignments, quizzes, lab work, and tests with a satisfactory score as detailed in the grading scale
by active participation in class discussion and activities
Criteria
you reduce rational expressions to lowest terms
you multiply rational expressions
you divide rational expressions
you add rational expressions
you subtract rational expressions
you simplify complex fractions
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Solve rational equations
Assessment Strategies
by completing assignments, quizzes, lab work, and tests with a satisfactory score as detailed in the grading scale
by active participation in class discussion and activities
Criteria
you solve rational equations using proportions
you solve rational equations by clearing the equation of fractions
you determine if roots are extraneous roots
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Graph algebraic equations
Assessment Strategies
by completing assignments, quizzes, lab work, and tests with a satisfactory score as detailed in the grading scale
by active participation in class discussion and activities
Criteria
you plot ordered pairs on the X-Y axes
you graph lines on the X-Y axes
you find a slope of a line given two points
you determine the slope and the Y-intercept given the equation of the line
you graph the solution to quadratic equations
you determine equations of lines
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Solve systems of equations
Assessment Strategies
by completing assignments, quizzes, lab work, and tests with a satisfactory score as detailed in the grading scale
by active participation in class discussion and activities
Criteria
you determine the solution to a system by graphing
you determine the solution to a system using the addition-subtraction method
you determine the solution using the substitution method
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Perform basic operations with roots and radicals
Assessment Strategies
by completing assignments, quizzes, lab work, and tests with a satisfactory score as detailed in the grading scale
by active participation in class discussion and activities
Criteria
you simplify radicals using numerical values
you simplify radicals using algebraic terms
you use pythagorean theorem to solve problems
you simplify distance formula
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Solve quadratic equations
Assessment Strategies
by completing assignments, quizzes, lab work, and tests with a satisfactory score as detailed in the grading scale
by active participation in class discussion and activities
Criteria
you solve quadratics by factoring
you solve quadratics by completing the square
you solve quadratics by using the quadratic formula
you identify the number of roots for any quadratic equation by using the discriminant