Algebra 1 Syllabus
Lesson Plans
Chapter 1 - Functions
Chapter 1 Quiz - Solve for x in linear equations without parentheses
- Practice Questions
- Home Help Video
Chapter 1 Team Test - Explaining, Graphing, and Extending Rate Situations and Patterns
Chapter 1 does not have an individual end-of-chapter test.
- Practice Questions
- Home Help Video
Chapter 1 Team Test - Explaining, Graphing, and Extending Rate Situations and Patterns
Chapter 1 does not have an individual end-of-chapter test.
Chapter 2 - Linear Relationships
Big Ideas
Chapter 2 Quiz - Evaluate expressions and use order of operations
Chapter 2 Practice Test with Answers
- Use m and b to graph a linear equation without making a table
- Write an equation (and/or identify slope and y-intercept) from a graph that displays the y-intercept
- Write an equation (and/or identify slope and y-intercept) from a table that includes the y-intercept
- Write an equation (and/or identify slope and y-intercept) from a tile pattern or situation
- Identify slope and y-intercept from an equation
- Calculate the slope given two points
- Understand slope as a rate
- Evaluate expressions using the Order of Operations
- Evaluate expressions, evaluate functions, and solve equations involving absolute value, square root, and cube root
- Graph a function
- Determine functionality
- Determine domain and range
- Recognize values excluded from a function’s domain
Chapter 2 Quiz - Evaluate expressions and use order of operations
- Practice Questions with Examples and Answers
- Home Help Video
Chapter 2 Practice Test with Answers
Chapter 3 - Simplifying and Solving
Big Ideas
Chapter 3 Quiz - Operations with Rational Numbers
Chapter 3 Practice Test with Answers
- Simplify expressions with positive exponents
- Simplify expressions with zero and negative exponents
- Compute areas and dimensions on generic rectangles with variables
- Simplify expressions by drawing and labeling a generic rectangle or by using the Distributive Property
- Solve simple absolute value equations of the form |ax+b|=c
- Compute operations with rational numbers
- Write the equation of a line given two points or a table that does not include the y-intercept
- Algebraically determine the equation of a line given the slope and a point on the line
Chapter 3 Quiz - Operations with Rational Numbers
- Practice Questions with Examples and Answers
- Home Help Video
Chapter 3 Practice Test with Answers
Chapter 4 - Systems of Equations
Big Ideas
Chapter 4 Quiz - Solving Linear Equations (Fractional Coefficients)
Chapter 4 Practice Test with Answers
- Solve simple systems, when at least one (or both) equation is given in slope-intercept form and the other in standard form
- Solve simple systems of equations where both equations are given in standard form, and the coefficients of one variable are either matching or opposites
- Identify systems with infinite solutions
- Identify systems with no solutions
- Understand that the solution to a system of equations is the point that makes both equations true.
- Write and solve systems of equations from situations
- Solve linear equations with rational coefficients
- Solve equations involving multiplication and/or the Distributive Property
- Rewrite multivariable, linear or non-linear equations in terms of one of the variables
Chapter 4 Quiz - Solving Linear Equations (Fractional Coefficients)
- Practice Questions with Examples and Answers
- Home Help Video
Chapter 4 Practice Test with Answers
Chapter 5 - Sequences
Big Ideas
Chapter 5 Quiz A - Laws of Exponents and Scientific Notation
Chapter 5 Quiz B - Writing the Equation of a Line
Chapter 5 Practice Test with Answers
- Solve a system more than 1 way.
- Write the equation of a line.
- Know the difference between an arithmetic and geometric sequence.
- Write the explicit and recursive equations for both.
- Write a table and graph of a line.
- Simplify using exponent rules.
- Find and explain someone’s errors when solving equations.
- Understand why a² + b² ≠ (a +b)².
- Solve absolute value equations.
Chapter 5 Quiz A - Laws of Exponents and Scientific Notation
- Practice Questions with examples and answers
Chapter 5 Quiz B - Writing the Equation of a Line
- Practice Questions with answers
Chapter 5 Practice Test with Answers
Chapter 6 is skipped.
Chapter 7 - Exponential Functions
- Complete a table and write an exponential equation.
- Write a linear equation when given 2 points.
- Write an exponential equation when given 2 points.
- Write an exponential equation for word problems and use it to answer questions.
- Look at and exponential graph an write an equation and understand what it means.
- Write an equation of a line when given the slope and a point.
- Write fractional exponents in root form.
Chapter 7 Quizzes
- Quiz A - Rewriting Equations with More Than One Variable, Multiplying Polynomials, and Solving Equations with Parentheses
- Practice Questions with Explanations, Examples, and Answers
- Quiz B - Solving Problems by Writing Equations and Solving Linear Systems of Equations
- Practice Questions with Explanations, Examples, and Answers
Chapter 7 Practice Test with Answers
Chapter 8 - Quadratic Functions
Big Ideas
Chapter 8 Quiz - Operations with rational numbers
Chapter 8 Practice Test with answers
Chapter 8 Notes
- Understand quadratics (Desmos quadratic investigation).
- Factor: all methods and special cases
- Solve quadratics
- by graphing
- by square rooting
- by factoring
- by quadratic formula
- by complete the square (if time)
Chapter 8 Quiz - Operations with rational numbers
- Practice Questions with examples, explanations, and answers
Chapter 8 Practice Test with answers
Chapter 8 Notes