The department believes that each student learns best and feels most successful and confident when she covers the material at an appropriately challenging pace. Students review the fundamental operations with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. Measurement, geometry, estimation, problem-solving, ratios, proportions, and percent are covered. LOGO and various computer programs are introduced. Students continue to study LOGO and to use various computer programs.
Students thoroughly review elementary number theory, fractions, decimals, and percents.
This course teaches linear, quadratic, and absolute value equations and inequalities. Other topics covered are graphing, functions, and operations with polynomials, including factoring. In addition, operations with radicals and rational expressions are studied, time permitting. Throughout the course, real world applications, informal geometry and probability are used in problems. This course teaches an introduction to linear, exponential, logarithmic, quadratic, polynomial, rational, and radical functions.