● For your Common Core curriculum.
● Make pre-algebra and algebra more approachable for struggling students with practice problems, definitions, clear examples, tips, and references.
● Instructions designed to simplify difficult concepts.
● Assessment section and answer key also provided.
● Concepts cover number systems, exponential expressions, square roots and radical expressions, graphing, and linear and quadratic functions.
● 128 pages.
● CCSS Product Alignment
● Math Grade 6
● 6.NS.4 Find the greatest common factor of two whole numbers less than or equal to 100 and the least common multiple of two whole numbers less than or equal to 12.
● Use the distributive property to express a sum of two whole numbers 1-100 with a common factor as a multiple of a sum of two whole numbers with no common factor.
● For example, express 36 + 8 as 4 (9 + 2).
● 6.NS.6a Recognize opposite signs of numbers as indicating locations on opposite sides of 0 on the number line, recognize that the opposite of the opposite of a number is the number itself, e.g., -(-3) = 3, and that 0 is its own opposite.
● 6.NS.6b Understand signs of numbers in ordered pairs as indicating locations in quadrants of the coordinate plane, recognize that when two ordered pairs differ only by signs, the locations of the points are related by reflections across one or both axes.
● 6.NS.6c Find and position integers and other rational numbers on a horizontal or vertical number line diagram, find and position pairs of integers and other rational numbers on a coordinate plane.
● 6.NS.7c Understand the absolute value of a rational number as its distance from 0 on the number line, interpret absolute value as magnitude for a positive or negative quantity in a real-world situation.
● For example, for an account balance of -30 dollars, write -30 = 30 to describe the size of the debt in dollars.
● 6.NS.7d Distinguish comparisons of absolute value from statements about order.
● For example, recognize that an account balance less than -30 dollars represents a debt greater than 30 dollars.
● 6.NS.8 Solve real-world and mathematical problems by graphing points in all four quadrants of the coordinate plane.
● Include use of coordinates and absolute value to find distances between points with the same first coordinate or the same second coordinate.
● 6.EE.1 Write and evaluate numerical expressions involving whole-number exponents.
● 6.EE.2b Identify parts of an expression using mathematical terms (sum, term, product, factor, quotient, coefficient), view one or more parts of an expression as a single entity.
● For example, describe the expression 2 (8 + 7) as a product of two factors, view (8 + 7) as both a single entity and a sum of two terms.
● 6.EE.2c Evaluate expressions at specific values of their variables.
● Include expressions that arise from formulas used in real-world problems.
● Perform arithmetic operations, including those involving whole-number exponents, in the conventional order when there are no parentheses to specify a particular order (Order of Operations).
● For example, use the formulas V = s and A = 6 s to find the volume and surface area of a cube with sides of length s = 1/2.
● 6.EE.3 Apply the properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions.
● For example, apply the distributive property to the expression 3 (2 + x) to produce the equivalent expression 6 + 3x, apply the distributive property to the expression 24x + 18y to produce the equivalent expression 6 (4x + 3y), apply properties of operations to y + y + y to produce the equivalent expression 3y.
● 6.EE.4 Identify when two expressions are equivalent (i.e., when the two expressions name the same number regardless of which value is substituted into them).
● For example, the expressions y + y + y and 3y are equivalent because they name the same number regardless of which number y stands for.
● Math Grade 7
● 7.RP.2b Identify the constant of proportionality (unit rate) in tables, graphs, equations, diagrams, and verbal descriptions of proportional relationships.
● 7.NS.1a Describe situations in which opposite quantities combine to make 0.
● For example, a hydrogen atom has 0 charge because its two constituents are oppositely charged.
● 7.NS.1b Understand p + q as the number located a distance q from p, in the positive or negative direction depending on whether q is positive or negative.
● Show that a number and its opposite have a sum of 0 (are additive inverses).
● Interpret sums of rational numbers by describing real-world contexts.
● 7.EE.1 Apply properties of operations as strategies to add, subtract, factor, and expand linear expressions with rational coefficients.
● 7.EE.2 Understand that rewriting an expression in different forms in a problem context can shed light on the problem and how the quantities in it are related.
● For example, a + 0.05a = 1.05a means that increase by 5%% is the same as multiply by 1.05.
● 7.EE.3 Solve multi-step real-life and mathematical problems posed with positive and negative rational numbers in any form (whole numbers, fractions, and decimals), using tools strategically.
● Apply properties of operations to calculate with numbers in any form, convert between forms as appropriate, and assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies.
● For example: If a woman making $25 an hour gets a 10%% raise, she will make an additional 1/10 of her salary an hour, or $2.50, for a new salary of $27.50.
● If you want to place a towel bar 9 3/4 inches long in the center of a door that is 27 1/2 inches wide, you will need to place the bar about 9 inches from each edge, this estimate can be used as a check on the exact computation.
● Math Grade 8
● 8.NS.1 Know that numbers that are not rational are called irrational.
● Understand informally that every number has a decimal expansion, for rational numbers show that the decimal expansion repeats eventually, and convert a decimal expansion which repeats eventually into a rational number.
● 8.NS.2 Use rational approximations of irrational numbers to compare the size of irrational numbers, locate them approximately on a number line diagram, and estimate the value of expressions (e.g., 960,).
● For example, by truncating the decimal expansion of 8730,2, show that 8730,2 is between 1 and 2, then between 1.4 and 1.5, and explain how to continue on to get better approximations.
● 8.EE.1 Know and apply the properties of integer exponents to generate equivalent numerical expressions.
● For example, 32 x 3-5 = 3-3 = 1/33 = 1/27.
● 8.EE.2 Use square root and cube root symbols to represent solutions to equations of the form x2 = p and x179, = p, where p, is a positive rational number.
● Evaluate square roots of small perfect squares and cube roots of small perfect cubes.
● Know that 8730,2 is irrational.
● 8.EE.5 Graph proportional relationships, interpreting the unit rate as the slope of the graph.
● Compare two different proportional relationships represented in different ways.
● For example, compare a distance-time graph to a distance-time equation to determine which of two moving objects has greater speed.
● 8.EE.6 Use similar triangles to explain why the slope m is the same between any two distinct points on a non-vertical line in the coordinate plane, derive the equation y = mx for a line through the origin and the equation y = mx + b for a line intercepting the vertical axis at b.
● 8.F.1 Understand that a function is a rule that assigns to each input exactly one output.
● The graph of a function is the set of ordered pairs consisting of an input and the corresponding output.
● 8.F.3 Interpret the equation y = mx + b as defining a linear function, whose graph is a straight line, give examples of functions that are not linear.
● For example, the function A = s2 giving the area of a square as a function of its side length is not linear because its graph contains the points (1,1), (2,4) and (3,9), which are not on a straight line.
● 8.F.4 Construct a function to model a linear relationship between two quantities.
● Determine the rate of change and initial value of the function from a description of a relationship or from two (x, y) values, including reading these from a table or from a graph.
● Interpret the rate of change and initial value of a linear function in terms of the situation it models, and in terms of its graph or a table of values.