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Program Title: More Outrageous Math
Program Length: 30 minutes
Delivery Method: Satellite via video conferencing
Program Provider: StepStar (program is tape delayed)
Audience: 6-8
Instructor: Rob Rowe

Program Time: 2:30-3:00 PM CST

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Overview— Students learn pre-algebra math concepts in lessons designed to enrich the teacher’s own classroom instruction. Lessons are designed to promote higher-level concepts and approaches to problem solving that are keys to success in work and everyday life. "More Outrageous Math" consists of 16, 30-minute lessons.

ALGEBRA STANDARDS
6-8
 

Indicator 1: Use procedures to transform algebraic expressions.

6. A.1.1. (Application) Use order of operations, excluding nested parentheses and exponents, to simplify whole number expressions.
6. A.1.2. (Application) Write algebraic expressions involving addition or multiplication using whole numbers.
7. A.1.1. (Application) Write and evaluate algebraic expressions using the set of whole numbers.
7. A.1.2. (Knowledge) Identify associative, commutative, distributive, and identity properties involving algebraic expressions.
8. A.1.1. (Application) Use properties to expand, combine, and simplify 1st degree algebraic expressions with the set of integers.

Indicator 2: Use a variety of algebraic concepts and methods to solve equations and inequalities.

6. A.2.1. (Application) Write and solve one-step 1st degree equations, with one variable, involving inverse operations using the set of whole numbers.
7. A.2.1. (Application) Write and solve one-step 1st degree equations, with one variable, using the set of integers and inequalities, with one variable, using the set of whole numbers.
8. A.2.1. (Application) Write and solve two-step 1st degree equations, with one variable, and one-step inequalities, with one variable, using the set of integers.

Indicator 3: Interpret and develop mathematical models.

6. A.3.1. (Knowledge) Identify and graph ordered pairs in Quadrant I on a coordinate plane.
6. A.3.2. (Application) Solve one-step problems involving ratios and rates.
7. A.3.1. (Application) Identify and graph ordered pairs on a coordinate plane and inequalities on a number line.
7. A.3.2. (Application) Model and solve multi-step problems involving rates.
8. A.3.1. (Comprehension) Describe and determine linear relationships.

Indicator 4: Analyze and describe the properties and behaviors of relations,functions and their inverses.

6. A.4.1. (Comprehension) Use concrete materials, graphs, and algebraic statements to represent problem situations.
7. A.4.1. (Application) Recognize one-step patterns using tables, graphs, and models and create one-step algebraic expressions representing the pattern.
8. A.4.1. (Synthesis) Create rules to explain the relationship between numbers when a change in the first variable affects the second variable.
8. A.4.2. (Analysis) Describe and represent relations using tables, graphs, and rules.
 

NOTE: Each site must audio mute upon connecting to the session to prevent voice activated moving of the cameras from site to site.

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