Mead School District Curriculum Map K-8
Content Area: Pre-Algebra
Grade Level: 7th, 8th or high school
10 days
25 days
Time
Frame or
# of Days
Strands
Patterns/
graphs/
tables/
applications
How can we show
mathematical
relationships?
How can we best show
this data?
Rational
numbers
(fractions/de
cimals)
Probability
10 days
Enduring
Understandings
What is a number
system? What can
numbers show?
How might we show
(decimals, fractions,
percents) in another
way?
How can we
mathematically predict
the outcomes of future
events?
When is the size of a
sample enough?
Priority
EALRs /GLEs
1.5 Algebraic Sense
1.5.1 Apply understanding of
linear and non-linear
relationships to patterns,
sequences, and situations.
1.5.2 Analyze a pattern, table,
graph, or situation to develop a
rule.
Content/Resources
HRW Alg. One Interactions (Course I)
Chap 1
Chap 2
Assessment
Teacher-made
quizzes, tests,
and homework
Tech options:
Calculators when appropriate
Graphing Calculators when appropriate
Excel or Website Applets
HRW Alg. One Interactions (Course I)
Chap 3 (First half)
1.1.1 Understand the concept of
rational numbers, including
Tech options:
whole number powers and
square roots of perfect squares. Calculators when appropriate
Graphing Calculators when appropriate
Excel or Website Applets
1.1 Number Sense
1.4 Probability
1.4.2 Understand and apply the
procedures for comparing
theoretical probability and
empirical results for
independent or compound
events.
HRW Alg. One Interactions (Course I)
Chap 3 (Second half)
Tech options:
Calculators when appropriate
Graphing Calculators (simulations)
Excel or Website Applets
Teacher-made
quizzes, tests,
and homework
Teacher-made
quizzes, tests,
and homework
Project
options:
Probability Fair
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Time
Frame or
# of Days
Strands
20 days
Geometry
concepts:
Enduring
Understandings
What is geometry? Is
there more than one?
Perimeter,
area,
circumferenc
e, points,
lines, angles,
vocabulary,
formulas,
Pythagorean
Theorem
20 Days
Circles,
Have all geometric
Surface Area figures been identified
and Volume and their properties
defined?
How do the properties
of geometric figures
influence their uses?
Priority
EALRs /GLEs
1.3 Geometric Sense
1.3.1 Apply understanding of
characteristics and
relationships among
1-dimensional, 2-dimensional,
and 3-dimensional shapes to
solve problems.
Content/Resources
HRW Alg. One Interactions (Course I)
Chap 4
Construction tools (rulers, compasses,
protractors, etc.)
1.2.1 Understand how a change
in a linear dimension affects
volume and surface area of
rectangular prisms and right
cylinders.
Teacher-made
quizzes, tests,
and homework
Vocabulary Baseball
Tech options:
Calculators when appropriate
Graphing Calculators when appropriate
Excel or Website Applets
Jeopardy Template for Review
HRW Alg. One Interactions (Course I)
( Chap 12)
1.3.2 Apply understanding of
similarity to polygons, circle
and solids.
Assessment
Optional
Project:
Geometry
Dictionary
Teacher-made
quizzes, tests,
and homework
Tech options:
Calculators when appropriate
Graphing Calculators when appropriate
Excel or Website Applets
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Time
Frame or
# of Days
Strands
Expressions
(+, -,X, ÷ )
20 days
One-step
equations
and
inequalities
Dist.
Property and
factoring
% and
Proportion
Enduring
Understandings
What kinds of things
in life can equations
help us do?
Priority
EALRs /GLEs
1.1 Number Sense
1.1.4 Apply ratio, percent, and
direct proportion in situations.
How do we show “rate 1.5 Algebraic Sense
of change”? When
1.5.5 Understand and apply the
and why is this useful? procedures for simplifying
single-variable expressions.
Where do algebraic
1.5.6 Understand and apply a
properties come from? variety of strategies to solve
Are they invented or
multi-step equations and
discovered?
one-step inequalities with one
variable.
Content/Resources
HRW Alg. One Interactions (Course I)
Chap 5 and 6
Assessment
Teacher-made
quizzes, tests,
and homework
Tech options:
Calculators when appropriate
Graphing Calculators when appropriate
Excel or Website Applets
5.1 Related Concepts and
Procedures
5.1.1 Apply concepts and
procedures fro a variety of
mathematical areas in a given
problem or situation.
20 days
Linear
Functions
Coordinate
Plane
Slope
SlopeIntercept
Form
Is there such a thing
as a “curved slope”?
1.5 Algebraic Sense
1.5.4 Apply understanding of
concepts of algebra to represent
situations involving
single-variable inequalities.
HRW Alg. One Interactions (Course I)
Chap 8
Geoboards for slope exploration
White boards
Teacher-made
quizzes, tests,
and homework
Tech options:
Calculators when appropriate
Graphing Calculators
Excel or Website Applets
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On-going through out
year
Time
Frame or
# of Days
Strands
Real World
Application
Estimation
and
reasonablene
ss
Presentation
of
Conclusions
with
Evidence
Enduring
Understandings
Priority
EALRs /GLEs
Content/Resources
HRW Alg. One Interactions (Course I)
(Themes throughout all chapters)
When is the “correct
mathematical answer”
not the best solution?
2.1 Understanding
Information
2.2 Define Problem
How do we know how
accurately to measure
things?
5.3 Application in real world Calculators when appropriate
Assessment
Teacher-made
quizzes, tests,
and homework
Tech options:
3.2 Make Predication,
Inferences and Conjectures
Graphing Calculators when appropriate
Excel or Website Applets
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