Course Description: This course will use the Common Core State Standards to prepare students to be successful. This course focuses on developing fluency with rational numbers and proportional relationships. Students will extend their elementary skills and begin to learn algebra concepts that serve as a transition into formal Algebra and Geometry.

Students will use hands-on materials and calculators when needed in solving problems where the concepts are applied.  Students who complete 8th Grade Pre Algebra 1  - Part 1 need to complete 8th Grade Pre-Algebra - Part 2 to receive a full year of the concepts.  It is important for students to be successful in Pre-Algebra Algebra concepts to move on to Algebra 1.

Week 1 - Solving Systems by Graphing
Week 2 - Solving Systems Algebraically
Week 3 - Solving Systems by Inspection and Application
Week 4 - Constructing and Analyzing Scatter Plots
Week 5 - Correlations and Line of Best Fit 
Week 6 - Constructing and Interpreting Tables
Week 7 - Understanding Geometric Transformations
Week 8 - Constructing Translations and Reflections
Week 9 - Constructing Rotations and Dilations 
Week 10 - Constructing a Series of Transformations 
Week 11 - Similar Triangles
Week 12 - Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal
Week 13 - Corresponding Angles and Alternate Angles
Week 14 - Perpendicular Lines Cut by a Transversal
Week 15 - The Pythagorean Theorem
Week 16 - 2D and 3D Applications of the Pythagorean Theorem
Week 17 - 3D Figures and Solving for Missing Dimensions
Week 18 - Final Review
Semester 2 Assessment

Requirements:  Students should expect to have homework almost every day/night in this class.  It is strongly recommended that students set aside at least 20 minutes per day for doing homework.  Homework will be graded for understanding each week. Homework is 10% of overall grade.

Quizzes and tests make up the majority of a students’ course grade.  But remember, if you aren’t practicing the math we are learning by doing your homework and class work on a regular basis, your scores on these quizzes/tests will more than likely be lower than they would be if you did do your homework every day.   Quizzes are 25% and Tests are 60%of overall grade.

Other possible grade includes attendance and participation.  Attendance/participation is worth 5% of overall grade.
If you ever feel you need more help than what you are receiving during our regularly scheduled classroom time, you should contact me and make arrangements to get extra help through e-mail or scheduling another time.  I am very willing to help you.  You just need to ask!