District Curriculum Overview

Subject: Mathematics Course: 307 Number Patterns B Grade Level: 9 – 12

Concepts	Topics/Units	Content/Skills	Essential activities/Agreements
Using flowcharts and data tables to understand inverse operations and solve one variable equations	Flowcharts and Order of Operations	· Evaluate expressions using the order of operations · Translate between flowcharts, equations and data tables · Solve one variable equations using flowcharts and inverse operations · Compute with integers	Construct, read and interpret charts, tables and graphs Collect, organize and describe data
Solving equations in one variable using concrete, informal and formal methods	Solving Equations	· Understand the meaning of a variable in an equation · Use Properties of equality commutative and distributive properties to simplify algebraic expressions	“Envelopes” lab “Balance scales”
Constructing expressions or equations to model patterns and problems	Patterns and Using a Variable	· Understand and apply the concepts of variable, expression and equation · Translate between tables, verbal rules, equations, diagrams, and graphs · Differentiating between linear and non-linear data and graphs	Lab experiments to generate data
Use diagrams to understand meaning of square numbers	Fractions and Squaring	· Translate between a diagram of a squared fraction or mixed number and its result · Add fractional parts · Compute with fractions