This is our catalog of courses. We will occasionally adjust the course listing to reflect the addition of new courses and the retirement of others.
This course will introduce topics of algebraic thinking and investigative skills for math. Students will use all of their computation skills which are essential learning for our students, but develop even greater uses for them in scientific notation and work with integers, or signed numbers. Graphing more complex plots like box and whisker and stem and leaf will be introduced and mastered.
Total classes: 30 Weeks
Prerequisite: Basic math skills. Saxon 7/6 or equivalent
Suggested grade level: 7th to 8th
Suggested credit: 1 full year math
Description
This course will introduce topics of algebraic thinking and investigative skills for math. Students will use all of their computation skills which are essential learning for our students, but develop even greater uses for them in scientific notation and work with integers, or signed numbers. Graphing more complex plots like box and whisker and stem and leaf will be introduced and mastered. The geometry will build on what the Saxon 7/6 course developed with symmetry, proportions and circumference and area of figures. Algebraic ideas begin with order of operations and repeating numbers, but continue with problem solving and percents. A student taking this class will be ready for Algebra 1 in the next year, or can complete Algebra 1/2 if more reinforcement of the concepts is needed.
Materials and Homework
Course Materials: Saxon 8/7 Homeschool Kit, 1st Edition (includes tests and answer keys). ISBN 978-1591413349
Homework: Practice set for appropriate lesson, and then the problem set for that lesson. Please follow the recommended schedule for testing which comes with the homeschooling kit.
