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Lesson 1: Reasoning With Large Numbers

Part A: How Big Is a Billion?

• Scale measurements of groups to represent individual elements
• Scale measurements to represent larger quantities of individual elements

Part B: Building a Learning Community

• Identify ways in which this course is different from other math courses in both content and structure

Part C: How Big Is a Billion? (Continued)

• Convert between units of measure
• Calculate quantities in billions

Part D: Building a Learning Community (Continued)

• Create a positive learning environment and a sense of community in the classroom
• Identify their responsibilities in the course as individual learners and members of a learning community

Lesson 2: Representing And Analyzing Large And Small Numbers

Part A: Doubling Population

• Describe quantities in the millions and billions
• Use data to estimate a doubling time
• Compare and contrast growth via doubling times

Part B: Scientific Notation

• Represent large and small numbers in scientific notation
• Convert numbers from scientific notation to standard notation

Part C: Ratios in Water Use

• Recognize when it is appropriate to express a ratio as a percentage
• Calculate ratios of large numbers
• Estimate ratios of large numbers

Part D: Analyzing Water Footprints

• Write and interpret numbers in scientific notation
• Perform operations with scientific notation using a calculator

Lesson 3: Estimation And Percentages

Part A: Large Numbers in the Media

• Evaluate reasonableness
• Rewrite quantitative statements to improve clarity

Part B: Seeking Help

• Identify when they need to ask for help

Part C: Estimating Sale Prices

• Use a few standard benchmarks to estimate percentages (i.e., 1%, 10%, 25%, 33%, 50%, 66%, 75%)
• Estimate the percent of a number, including situations involving percentages less than one

Part D: Calculating Sale Prices

• Determine when an estimate or an exact calculation is appropriate
• Calculate the percent one number is of another
• Calculate the percent of a number, including situations involving percentages less than one

Part E: Developing Self-Regulation

• Evaluate the accuracy of your self-assessment to this point
• Make a plan to continue to improve your self-assessment and use it to regulate your learning

Lesson 4: Utilizing Charts And Spreadsheets

Part A: Budgeting Operations

• Write a calculation in at least two different ways based on equivalent forms of fractions/decimals
• Write a calculation in at least two different ways based on relationship of multiplication and division
• Write a calculation in at least two different ways based on properties and order of operations

Part B: Budgeting with Spreadsheets

• Apply mathematical knowledge about properties and operations in using spreadsheet technology

Part C: Graph Analysis

• Calculate absolute and relative change from a line graph

Part D: Using Graphs to Understand Change

• Estimate the absolute size of the portions of a pie chart if given the base value
• Use data displayed on two graphs to estimate a third quantity

Lesson 5: Displaying Data

Part A: Displaying Table Data

• Read a stem-and-leaf plot and a back-to-back plot
• Identify important features of a stem-and-leaf plot

Part B: Relative Frequency Tables

• Choose appropriate bin size and sort data into bins
• Report frequencies and relative frequencies

Part C: Displaying Data: Histograms

• Analyze histograms
• Create a histogram from a frequency table

Part D: Shapes of Distributions

• Analyze dotplots
• Describe the shape of distributions

Lesson 6: Statistical Summaries

Part A: Measures of Central Tendency

• Compare the mean and median from the shape of a distribution
• Create a data set that meets certain criteria for measures of central tendency

Part B: Brain Power

• Identify how the growth view of intelligence relates to learning math

Part C: Making Decisions with Data

• Use data to make informed decisions
• Identify the mean, median, or mode in contextual problems
• Match data sets with appropriate statistics

Part D: Boxplots

• Analyze boxplots
• Interpret the mean, median, or mode in terms of the context of the problem

Lesson 7: Applying Numeracy Skills To Financial Situations

Part A: The Credit Crunch

• Apply quantitative reasoning and math skills in various contexts

Part B: More Credit Crunch

• Apply skills and concepts from previous lessons in new contexts
• Interpret a numerical expression in context
• Write a spreadsheet formula to compute interest

Part C: A Taxing Situation

• Perform multi-step calculations using information from a real-world source
• Rewrite multi-step calculations as a single expression

Part D: A Taxing Situation (Continued)

• Generate an algorithm for performing multi-step calculations
• Explain the meaning of a calculation within a context

Lesson 8: Assessing Risk

Part A: What’s the Risk?

• Express and interpret ratios in non-standard forms (i.e., 1 out of 20) and standard forms, such as percentages and natural frequencies out of multiples of 10
• Identify missing information needed to calculate risk

Part B: An Apple a Day

• Identify major factors in determining risks of disease
• Make quantitative comparisons between data
• Write a statement that interprets data from a table using multiple categories

Part C: Reducing the Risk

• Create graphs that show absolute change calculated from a rate
• Compute absolute changes

Part D: Is Reducing the Risk Worth It?

• Create graphs that show both absolute and relative changes in a rate (percent)
• Compute absolute and relative changes

Lesson 9: Reasoning With Probabilities

Part A: Comparing Categorical Data

• Correctly identify the quantities involved in a verbal statement about percentages based on specific data
• Calculate percentages and convert from a decimal representation to a percent
• Read and use information presented in a two-way table

Part B: Interpreting Percentages

• Correctly identify variable quantities involved in a general verbal statement about percentages

Part C: Do You Trust the Test?

• Extract relevant information from a two-way table
• Select the appropriate values to calculate probabilities

Part D: Do You Trust the Test? (Continued)

• Calculate probabilities from information given in a two-way table
• Calculate and interpret probabilities of errors: percent of positive results that are false positives and percent negative results that are false negatives

Lesson 10: Reasoning With Ratios And Proportions

Part A: Population Density

• Calculate population density as a unit rate
• Compare and contrast populations using their population densities

Part B: Density Proportions

• Calculate population densities
• Calculate population density proportions from density ratios
• Solve a proportion by first finding a unit rate and then multiplying appropriately

Part C: State Population Densities (Optional)

• Estimate between which two powers of 10 a quotient of large numbers lies
• Use unit rates to estimate population

Part D: Apportionment

• Calculate a relative change
• Explain the difference between a relative change and absolute change

Lesson 11: Geometric Reasoning

Part A: Formulating a Plan

• Use formulas from geometry
• Evaluate an expression in a geometric formula

Part B: The Costs of Geometry

• Perform calculations that involve rates and measures to support financial decisions
• Solve complex problems requiring multiple pieces of information and steps
• Evaluate an expression involving estimating cost

Part C: Modifying and Combining Formulas

• Use formulas from geometry and perform calculations that involve rates and measures to support financial decisions
• Write an expression to solve a problem involving estimating cost

Lesson 12: Dimensional Analysis

Part A: Texting Distance

• Use units to determine which conversion factors are needed for dimensional analysis
• Use a conversion factor to convert a rate

Part B: The Cost of Driving

• Write a rate as a fraction
• Use a unit factor to convert a rate
• Use dimensional analysis to help determine the factors in a series of operations to obtain an equivalent measure

Part C: The True Cost of Driving

• Organize multiple pieces of information and steps involved in complex problems

Part D: Can the True Cost Vary?

• Use variables to analyze multiple pieces of information and steps involved in complex problems
• Investigate how changing certain values can affect the result of a calculation

Lesson 13: Analyzing Formulas

Part A: Algebra Reaction (Optional)

• Evaluate an expression involving a square root

Part B: Breaking Down a Formula

• Evaluate a rational expression

Part C: Analyzing Change in Variables

• Establish a strategy to explore the pattern of changes in one variable of an expression while holding other variables fixed

Part D: Analyzing Change in Variables (Continued)

• Informally describe the change in one variable as another variable changes

Lesson 14: Applying Formulas

Part A: Body Mass Index

• Explicitly write out the order of operations to evaluate a given formula involving multiplication and division

Part B: Target Weight

• Solve for a variable in an equation involving only multiplication and division
• Explicitly write out the order of operations to solve a given equation involving multiplication and division

Part C: Blood Alcohol Content

• Explicitly write out the order of operations to evaluate a given formula involving multiplication, addition, and division.

Part D: Balancing Blood Alcohol

• Solve for a variable in an equation
• Explicitly write out the order of operations to solve a given equation involving multiplication, addition, and division.

Lesson 15: Proportional Reasoning

Part A: Proportional Reasoning in Art

• Set up a proportion based on a contextual situation
• Solve a proportion

Part B: Proportion Solutions

• Set up a proportion to solve a scaling problem
• Solve a proportion using algebraic methods

Part C: Solving Equations

• Solve equations that require simplification before solving
• Solve for a variable in terms of other variables

Part D: More Work with Equations (Optional)

• Solve equations in a variety of forms, such as simple quadratic equations (by square root function) and simple cubic equations (by cube root function)
• Recognize when they do not have enough tools to solve an equation

Part E: Proportional Viewing (Optional)

• Set up a proportion to solve an aspect ratio problem

Lesson 16: Creating Linear Models

Part A: Describing Rates

• Calculate slope in direct variation situations
• Express slope with appropriate units
• Interpret slope in a problem situation

Part B: Comparing Rates

• Compare slopes in a problem situation using appropriate units

Part C: Interpreting Change

• Calculate slope from two points in a linear relationship

Part D: Where Do We Start?

• Determine the y-intercept in a linear relationship
• Determine the equation of a linear relationship

Part E: Predicting Costs

• Calculate the y-intercept of any linear relationship given two points
• Write an equation that represents a linear relationship given two data points
• Use the linear equation to make predictions

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