Resources and materials for courses developed through the Partnership for Excellence project
Resources and materials for courses developed through the Partnership for Excellence project
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Rediscovering Algebra I |
The handouts below are Word 6 for Windows documents. A Word viewer may be downloaded from Microsoft by clicking here: Word Viewer. A PowerPoint viewer may be downloaded by clicking here: PowerPoint Viewer.
Cooperative Group Activities
Unit 1: Numeric and Algebraic Operations
Prerequisites and Objectives
Activity 1: Commutative Property of Addition
Activity 2: Associative Property of Addition
Activity 3: Combining Properties of Addition
Activity 4: Commutative Property of Multiplication
Activity 5: Associative Property of Multiplication
Activity 6: Distributive Property
Activity 7: Division & Factorization
Activity 8: Evaluating Algebraic Expressions
File containing all unit activitiesUnit 2: Functions and Graphs
Prerequisites and Objectives
Activity 1: Graphs and the Function Concept
Activity 2: Curves from Points
Calculus Calculator Ver. 4 (CC4) - Beta version of X(Plore)
Winzip (to unzip compressed files such as CC4)
Activity 3: Describing Horizontal and Vertical Lines
File containing all unit activitiesUnit 3: Linear Polynomials
Prerequisites and Objectives
Activity 1: Graphs of Linear Polynomials
Activity 2: Solving Linear Equations
Activity 3: A Distinguishing Characteristic of Lines
Geometer's Sketchpad file slope.gsp
Demo Version of Geometer's Sketchpad
Activity 4: Describing Lines with Polynomials
File containing all unit activitiesUnit 4: Systems of Linear Equations
Prerequisites and Objectives
Activity 1: Parallel Lines
Geometer's Sketchpad file parallel.gsp
Activity 2: Perpendicular Lines
Geometer's Sketchpad file perp.gsp
Activity 3: Intersections with Vertical and Horizontal Lines
Activity 4: Solving General Linear Systems
File containing all unit activitiesUnit 5: Absolute Value and Equations
Prerequisites and Objectives
Activity 1: Absolute Value as Distance
Activity 2: Graphing Absolute Value in the Plane
Activity 3: Combining Absolute Value Functions
File containing all unit activitiesUnit 6: One Variable Linear Inequalities
Prerequisities and Objectives
Activity 1: Properties of Order
Activity 2: Models for Inequalities
Graphmatica will be needed for this activity.
File containing all unit activitiesUnit 7: Two Variable Linear Inequalities
Prerequisites and Objectives
Activity 1: Planar Graphs
Activity 2: Systems of Inequalities
File containing all unit activities
Manipulatives
Base 10 blocks, Algebra tiles, Triman compass, Mira or image reflector. Sources: Cuisinaire , Nasco, ETA
Software
Calculus Calculator Ver. 4 (CC4) - Beta version of X(Plore)
Graphmatica
Efofex - Shareware program for creating publication-quality graphs to paste into word processing documents (Windows 3.1 or higher).
Winzip - to unzip the above program(s)
