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    Syllabus Template

     

    School Year             2024-2025

     

     

     

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    School:           Mt. Tabor       

    Course Title:  Algebra 1-2                         

    Grade Level(s): 9th

    Is high school credit an option for this course? 

    Yes 

    Prerequisites:

     

    Successful completion of Compacted Math

    Course description:  This is the 2nd year of a two year accelerated math curriculum. It covers the district required 9th grade Algebra curriculum. It is aligned with the Oregon State Standards.  It covers the following strands:

    • Algebra
    • Statistics
    • Geometry

     

    There is an emphasis on conceptual understanding of topics, critical thinking and application.  Students will be asked to justify their thinking, generalize relationships, make connections between ideas and reverse thinking to solve problems.

     

     

    Priority Standards:

    Unit 1: One Variable Statistics

    Unit 2: Linear Equations, Inequalities & Systems of Equations

    Unit 3: Two Variable Statistics

    Unit 4: Functions

    Unit 5: Exponential Functions

    Unit 6: Quadratic Functions

    Unit 7: Quadratic Equations

    Practice Standards

     

     

     

     

     

     
     
     

    District adopted materials:

     
     

    Differentiation/ accessibility strategies and support:

    • Group work (Norms & Roles)
    • Test Revisions
    • Visuals
    • Graphic organizers
    • Pre-teaching vocabulary
    • Breaking task into smaller pieces
    • Study team strategies (pairs check, dyad, huddle, etc.)

     

     

     

     

    Final proficiencies: Students will be proficient in the Oregon state standards for ninth grade mathematics.

     
     

    Assessment/evaluation/grading policy:  Please refer to Proficiency Grading page above.

     

    Grades on report cards will be marked as Highly Proficient (HP), Proficient (P), Close to  Proficient (CP), and Developing Proficiency (DP).

     

     

    Assessments at a Close to Proficient (CP) or Developing Proficiency (DP) may be revised once to a Proficient (PR).  

    How Proficiency scores will be converted to a single A-C Grade for the year:

     

     

     

     

     

    Behavioral expectations:  

    ATTENDANCE:  If a student is absent, they will need to check in with the teacher upon the day they return to see what they have missed and what they will need to make up.  Students will be given a new due date for work missed due to absence.

     

    RULES: Students are expected to come to class prepared, use class time productively and behave in a manner that is both positive and productive.

     

                                  

    Safety issues and requirements:

    None.