During group activities, learners will interact with the teacher and each other through verbal discussion and slides designed to be written on and organize our thinking, not just looked at. (Learners can either annotate from within Zoom, which will be reset as we move between slides but preserved in the session recording, or request the Explain Everything link, which will let them write directly on the board. Learners' contributions will be monitored for appropriateness, safety, and accuracy.)

Activities will follow approximately this timeline:
Week 1: Introductory activities on problem solving and sequences — 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3
Week 2: Constant differences, constant ratios, and constant rates — 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6
Week 3: Comparing rates of growth, equations, and missing terms — 1.7, 1.8, and 1.9
Week 4: Geometric mean and review — 1.10 and 1.11
Learners' interests, background, and needs may cause variations in the week-to-week schedule.
For further details, see the learning goals list.

Consistent regular attendance is expected. I will not remove learners from class for missing group activity sessions, but they must take responsibility for catching up, by watching the session video and doing all work. I will be available to help if they find anything tricky.

The recommended learner background is recent successful completion of a prealgebra class. Classes not called prealgebra but on the same level, and including topics like basic equation solving and coordinate graphing, are OK, and so is needing to brush up typical of after the summer slide. If you're not sure, let's talk!