Class: Algebra
Curriculum/Content Area:Math
Course Length: Full Year
Course Title: Algebra
Date last reviewed:
Prerequisites: Math 2
Board approval date:
Desired Results:
Course description and purpose:
Enduring Understandings (EUs):]
Essential Questions (EQs):
1. Simplifying Expressions and Solving
Equations
2. Understanding Equivalence
3. Understanding Change and distinguishing
between linear, quadratic, and exponential
change
4. Understanding how to model with
mathematics
5. Effectively communicate the relationships
between quantities
6. Use data to form conclusions
1. Can students solve complex equations in one
variable?
2. Can students choose an effective method
and solve a system of equations?
3. Are the students able to describe change
given a graph, chart, or equation?
4. Are the students able to model
relationships with an equation, chart, and
graph?
5. Can the students identify and interpret
slope and y-intercept.
6. Can the students use data to make
reasonable predictions?
Assessment Evidence
Unit Title: Expressions and Equations
A. Solving Simple Equations
B. Solving Multi-step Equations
C. Solving Equations with Variables on Both Sides
D. Rewriting Equations and Formulas
Standards (CCSS, Next Generation Science, ACT College and Career Readiness, etc.)
Learning Targets Addressed [“I can” statements (focus on skill-based vs. contentbased)]:
Unit Title: Linear and Exponential Relationships
A. Writing and Solving Systems of Equations and Inequalities While Anticipating the Number
and Nature of Solutions
B. Using Multiple Representations of Relationships between Quantities
C. Using Multiple Representations to Analyze Functions
D. Modeling Families of Functions
Standards (CCSS, Next Generation Science, ACT College and Career Readiness, etc.)
Learning Targets Addressed [“I can” statements (focus on skill-based vs. contentbased)]:
Unit Title: Relationships Between Quantities and Reasoning with Equations
A. Rates and Quantities are Numbers with Units
B. Understand rate of change
C. Modeling rate of change
D. Understanding patterns
Standards (CCSS, Next Generation Science, ACT College and Career Readiness, etc.)
Learning Targets Addressed [“I can” statements (focus on skill-based vs. contentbased)]:
Unit Title: Quadratic Functions and Modeling
A. Graphing Quadratic Functions
B. Solving with Factoring
C. Solving by Completing the Square
D. Solving with the Quadratic Equation
Standards (CCSS, Next Generation Science, ACT College and Career Readiness, etc.)
Learning Targets Addressed [“I can” statements (focus on skill-based vs. contentbased)]: