This 12 week course will cover the first semester of Common Core Algebra. Students completing both semesters will be ready to move onto Geometry and Advanced Algebra. This is a teacher lead, interactive class; I will present the lesson and we will practice together. My goal is to build a classroom community where students are comfortable asking questions and commenting as I believe this drives the learning for the whole cohort. 
The topics covered:
Week 1 and 2: Expressions, Equations and Functions - In this unit we will evaluate and write expressions, define and represent functions, review order of operations, problem solving plans and precision and measurement.
Week 3 and 4: Solving Linear Equations - During these two weeks we will focus on solving complex equations and associate the logic behind the properties; write and solve proportions and rewrite equations and formulas.
Weeks 5 and 6: Graphing Linear Equations and Functions - These two weeks will be devoted to using the coordinate plane to represent linear functions, methods of graphing linear functions, best fit lines and linear modeling.
Weeks 7 to 10: Writing Linear Equations - In this unit we will writing linear equations from graphs, tables and word problems; we will explore point slope form, slope intercept form and standard form; and we will learn about parallel and perpendicular lines.
Weeks 11, 12: Solving and Graphing Linear Inequalities - We will learn about the properties of inequality, solve multi-step and compound inequalities, we will solve absolute value equations and write and graph linear inequalities.