PERIOD 4 PREALGEBRA

Class Introduction:

Students will practice and improve their number sense, measure sense and estimation skills. They will review and extend their arithmetic, calculator, and thinking skills by working with fractions, decimals, percents, large and small numbers and negative numbers, variables, expressions, equations, graphing and other algebra topics. Students will extend their understanding of geometry, including transformations and 2 and 3 dimensional figures, and their knowledge of probability and statistics. They will investigate the uses of mathematics outside the classroom.