Unit outline - Algebra

Essential Question:

Where do we see and use patterns in our daily lives?

Unit Understandings:

 Students will use algebraic methods to represent, analyze and solve practical situations
involving numbers and patterns.

 How patterns and relationships can be expressed in a variety of ways which can make them
useful for solving problems.

I will be able to:

 Evaluate, recognize and simplify algebraic expressions and apply to a variety of ‘real world’
problems

 Write number sentences using a variable or unknown and solve the problem

 Apply algebraic properties of like terms, multiplication and the distributive property to
help simplify expressions

 Understand and use the substitution principle

 Extend, describe, analyze and create numerical patterns that show relationships among
variables; describe rules for patterns and use them to solve problems

 Solve equations with one unknown involving multiple operations, and where the variable
may appear more than once. Operations involved include addition, subtraction,
multiplication, division, distributing, absolute values, and utilizing manual and GDC
techniques.

Resources:
Resources will be from a variety of books. The relevant sections will be on the BLOG
http://makunjap.ism-online.org