Welcome to the first week of Algebra I! This week, we will be pretesting and going over some math from your middle school courses that will prove essential through the year. Based on the pretests and review, we will jump into deeper content next week at the appropriate place for the class.

Classes: Monday/Wednesday, 9:15 – 9:45 AM

Office Hours: Wednesday (3:00 – 4:00 PM) and Thursday (2:00 – 3:00 PM)

Zoom ID: 987 654 321

*as always, please see Teams for the password.

Weekly Objectives

1. Students will take a pretest in order to help the teacher determine the best place to begin Algebra II content.
2. Students will review order of operations, negative integers, and balancing simple equations in order to prepare for the beginning of the first unit next week.

New Assignments

1. Two Do Nows (Teams: General – please respond to the Do Now posts)
2. Algebra 1 Pretest (Teams: Assignments)
3. Review: Order of Operations, Negative Integers, and Balancing Simple Equations (Teams: Assignments)

Late Assignments (10% off after 08/24 at 08:00 AM)

1. Scavenger Hunt (Teams: Assignments)

     1a: This assignment includes the Intense Math Problem, also under the “Assignments” tab.

Below: Here is one example of how you might organize your math work this first week. This is merely a suggestion and you should do whatever works best for you.