The program still retains the spiralling idea, however. Overall assignments will be modified as well. Students review all four of the basic operations with negative numbers and apply them in problem-solving situations. They also explore the commutative and associative properties and explain them in their own words. They explain the correlation between collecting similar terms and the distributive property.
Students also explore properties of equality.
They recognize when there will not be a soltuion to an equation or when equations will have multiple solutions. They will also solve for a given variable in terms of another variable. Students recognize polynomials and are able to name them in terms of their degree and number of terms. Students learn to multiply polynomials, factor various types of trinomials, and square binomials. Students also recognize radicals and irrational numbers.