Course Description

Course Name:  Algebra I

Subject: Mathematics

Course Number: 1200310

Credit Earned: 1.0 credit

Prerequisites: None

Course description: The student takes a journey around the world to learn the connections to algebra. Students will learn many skills as they travel through the lessons and assignments.

Scope & Sequence:     

Module 1:  Course Information and motif
Navigating the course
Pace
Submitting Travelogues
Diagnostic Test

Module 2:  Travel
Tables
Graphs
Charts
Labs

Module 3:  Communications
Number Systems Relationships
Integers
PENDAS
Absolute Value
Evaluating basic equations

Module 4:  Sports and Leisure I
Simplify
Solving equations
Advanced equations
Absolute value
Financial Notation

Module 5:  Sports and Leisure II
Linear equations
Slopes and Intercepts
Advanced Slope
Writing equations of lines
Graphing Linear equations
Solving systems of equations
Substitution method

Module 6:  Health I
Add Polys
Powers
Multiplying and dividing square roots
Addition/subtraction of Radicals
Pythagorean Theorem

Module 7:  Health II
Factoring
Difference of squares
Factoring by Grouping
Trinomials
Factoring completely
Solving equations by factoring
Quadratic Formula
Discriminant

Module 8:  Business I
Simplify
Product
Sum
Equations

Module 9:  Business II
Inequalities
Graphing
Graphing Linear Equations
Systems

Module 10:  Review and Exam

This course integrates the Goal 3 Student Performance Standards of the Florida System of School Improvement and Accountability as appropriate to the content and processes of the subject matter of this course.