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October 2007

Vocabulary

Rational Reasoning:

Students will be able to:

  • Represent & evaluate algebraic expressions/equations
  • Understand relationships between two variables & graph on a coordinate plane.
  • Understand the meaning of positive & negative rational numbers & use them in computation.
  • Find the absolute value of a number
  • Add & subtract linear expressions

Vocabulary

Absolute Value: The distance between a number and zero on a number line. The symbol for absolute value is| |

Associative Property: In addition or multiplication, the result of the expression will remain the same regardless of grouping: a+(b+c)=(a+b)+c

Commutative Property: The sum or product of numbers is the same no matter how the numbers are arranged: a+b=b+a

Distributive Property: The sum of two addends multiplied by a number will be the sum of the product of each addend and the number: a(b+c)=ab+ac

Integer: The set of whole numbers & their opposites

Example:{…-2, -1, 0, 1, 2,…}

Inverse Operation: Operations that undo each other or are opposite, such as addition and subtraction

Natural numbers: Counting numbers that begin with 1.

Example: {1, 2, 3, 4, …}

Rational numbers: The set of numbers that can be written in the form of where a & b are integers and b 0.

Whole numbers: The set of all natural numbers and zero.

Try http://intermath.coe.uga.edu/

Weekly Guide

October 8 - 12

Monday 

E.Q. What is the difference between a constant and a variable?

Homework     WorkText p5 #5-19 all

Tuesday

E.Q.     How do you create an algebraic expression from situations?

Homework:    Textbook WorkText p8 odds

Wednesday

E.Q.     How do you create an algebraic expression from situations?

Homework:  Textbook Pg 40-41 #18-25 & 30-32 all

Thursday

E.Q.     How do you simplify like terms in algebraic expressions?

Homework: WorkText p13 all

Friday

E.Q.     How do you solve for a variable in an equation?

Homework: Review Vocabulary

Vocabulary:

Variable

Constant

Algebraic expression

Evaluate

term

Co-efficient

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