BPS High School Algebra Scope and Sequence Guide
2005-2006
September (14 days)	Chapter 1: The Language of Algebra Students will learn how to write and evaluate algebraic equations, solve open sentences, use algebraic properties of identity and equality, use conditional statements and counterexamples, interpret graphs of functions, and analyze data in statistical graphs.
	Chapter 2: Real Numbers Students will learn how to classify, add, subtract, multiply, divide, and graph rational numbrs. They will learn how to display and interpret statistical data on line graphs and stem-and-leaf plots, to determine simple probablity and odds, and to find square roots and compare real numbers.
October (20 days)
	Chapter 3: Solving Linear Equations Students will learn how to translate verbal sentences into equations and equations into verbal sentences, how to solve equations and proportions, find percents of change, solve equations of given variables, and solve mixture and uniform motion problems.
November (18 days)
	Chapter 4: Graphing Relations and Functions Students will learn how to graph ordered pairs, relations, and equations, how to transform figures on a coordinate plane, find the inverse of a relation, determine whether a relation is a function, and to look for patterns and write formulas for sequences.
December (17 days)
	Chapter 5: Analyzing Linear Equations Students will learn how to find the slope of a line, write direct variation equations, write linear equations in slope-intercept and point-slope forms, for parallel and perpendicular lines, and to draw a scatter plot and write the equations of a line of fit.
	Chapter 6: Solving Linear Inequalities Students will learn how to solve linear inequalities, compound inequalities, absolute value equations and inequalities, and how to graph compound inequality solution sets, and inequalities in the coordinate plane.
January (20 days)
	Chapter 7: Solving Systems of Linear Equations and Inequalities Students will learn how to solve systems of linear equations graphically and algebraically, and how to solve systems of linear inequalities by graphing.
February (15 days)
	Chapter 13: Statistics  Students will learn about sampling techniques, organizing data in matrices, displaying and interpreting data in histograms, and using box-and-whisker plots.
March (21 days)	Chapter 14: Probability Students will learn how to count outcomes using the Fundamental Counting Principle, to determine probabilities using permutations and combinations, to find probabilities of compound events, and to use probability distrubutions and simulations.
	Chapter 8: Polynomials Students will learn how to find products and quotients of monomials, express numbers in scientific and standard notation, find the degree of a polynomial and arrange the terms in order, add, subtract, and multiply polynomial expressions, and find special products of binomials.
April (16 days)
	Chapter 9: Factoring Students will learn how to find the prime factorizations and the greatest common factors of integers and monomials and sets of integers and monomials, how to factor polynomials and how to use the Zero Product Property to solve equations.
May (21 days)
	Chapter 10: Quadratic and Exponential Functions Students will learn how to graph quadratic and exonential functions, solve quadratic equations and problems involving exponential growth and decay, and to recognize and extend geometric sequences.
June (14 days)