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Course Title: Concepts of Mathematics Credit Value: 1.0
Course 102113 Term(s) Offered: Full Year
Number:
Prerequisite(s): None Open to Grades: 9, 10, 11,
12
Career Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Hospitality and Tourism
Cluster(s): Architecture and Construction Human Services
Arts, Audio/Video Technology and Communications Information Technology
Business Management and Administration Law, Public Safety, Corrections and Security
Education and Training Manufacturing
Finance Marketing
Government and Public Administration Science, Technology, Engineering and
Health Science Mathematics
Transportation, Distribution and Logistics
Description: This course is designed for students who need further development of foundational skills before enrolling
in Algebra 1. Students spend the first semester developing their number sense and skills, working on estimating, working
on explaining their thinking, and making sense of word problems. Much of the time is spent on fractions: size,
equivalence, operations on, rates of change, proportional reasoning, and percents. At the end of the semester students
work on the measurement skills that support the programs at Beattie Tech in which many of our students are enrolled.
The concepts in the third quarter are focused on beginning algebra skills and knowledge: vocabulary, solving equations,
and translating between graphing, words, tables, and equations. In the fourth quarter students focus on the statistics
students will see in algebra such as summarizing, interpreting, and displaying data. Throughout the course students will
see real-world applications and practice their reading comprehension. Students receive specific supports based on their
unique needs, such as leveled assessments to show growth as well as mastery.

Course Title: Algebra 1 Credit Value: 1.0
Course 102130 Term(s) Offered: Full Year
Number:
Prerequisite(s): Completion of Fundamentals of Algebra and Open to Grades: 9, 10, 11
teacher recommendation
Career Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Hospitality and Tourism
Cluster(s): Architecture and Construction Human Services
Arts, Audio/Video Technology and Communications Information Technology
Business Management and Administration Law, Public Safety, Corrections and Security
Education and Training Manufacturing
Finance Marketing
Government and Public Administration Science, Technology, Engineering and
Health Science Mathematics
Transportation, Distribution and Logistics
Description: Algebraic thinking allows students to extend their knowledge of operations on numbers to operations on
patterns of numbers. In order to describe these patterns, students use variables and numbers to write equations, generate
tables, sketch graphs, and solve word problems. Algebra 1 students spend much of the year modeling patterns that have
a constant rate of change (linear functions). Along the way students increase their skills in working with proportions,
percents, exponents, integers, equations and inequalities. Students also look at patterns with two rates of change
(quadratic functions) in anticipation of their work in Algebra 2. Students will continue their study of probability in
Algebra 1. Finally, students explore messy patterns of data by finding a line of best fit, representing the average and
variation, and displaying data with different types of graphs. All students completing Algebra 1 are required to take the
end-of-course Keystone Algebra 1 exam as mandated by School Board policy. The Keystone Exam score is not used to
calculate the student’s final course grade.

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