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Unit 1: Basic operations                                                                                  ANSWERS CAN BE BLOCKED
 
Day 001 Lesson 01 Order of operations (PEMDAS)
  Lesson/Assignment 1-01 Answers/Solutions Video  
   
Day 002 Lesson 02 Negative numbers, opposites, absolute values
Inequalities
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Day 003 Lesson 03 Review of sign rules for arithmetic operations
Unit multipliers
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Day 004 Lesson 04 Evaluating algebraic expressions
Combining like terms
  Lesson/Assignment 1-04 Answers/Solutions Video  
   
Day 005 Lesson 05 Evaluating expression that distribute negative numbers
Nested groups
  Lesson/Assignment 1-05 Answers/Solutions Video Calculator Appendix A
  Enrichment Topic A (Commutative, distributive, and associative, properties)
  Lesson/Assignmnet ET-A Answers/Solutions    
   
Day 006 Lesson 06 *Putting it all together with fractions
  Lesson/Assignment 1-06 Answers/Solutions Video Calculator Appendix B
   
Day 007 Unit 1 review Review assignmnet Answers/Solutions
   
Day 008 Unit 1 test    
Unit 2: Solving linear equations
 
Day 009 Lesson 01 Solving one step linear equations
  Lesson/Assignment 2-01 Answers/Solutions Video  
   
Day 010 Lesson 02 Solving two step linear equations
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Day 011 Lesson 03 Solving linear equations by combining like terms
Solving multiple-step linear equations
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Day 012 Lesson 04 Solving linear equations with variables on both sides
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Day 013 Unit 2 review Review assignmnet Answers/Solutions
   
Day 014 Unit 2 test    
Unit 3: Inequality basics
Solving linear, single-variable inequalities
 
Day 015 Lesson 01 Inequality statements
  Lesson/Assignment 3-01 Answers/Solutions Video  
   
Day 016 Lesson 02 Solving linear inequalities
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  Enrichment Topic B (Inequality conjunctions and disjunctions)  
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Day 017 Unit 3 cumulative review
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Day 018 Unit 3 test    
Unit 4: Solving word problems (area, perimeter, percent)
Solving abstract equations
 
Day 019 Lesson 01 Converting word expressions into algebraic expressions
Solving simple word problems
  Lesson/Assignment 4-01 Answers/Solutions Video  
   
Day 020 Lesson 02 Solving perimeter and area word problems
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Day 021 Lesson 03 Percent problems
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Day 022 Lesson 04 More area, perimeter, and percent problems
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Day 023 Lesson 05 Solving abstract equations
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Day 024 Unit 4 cumulative review
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Day 025 Unit 4 review Review assignmnet Answers/Solutions
   
Day 026 Unit 4 test    
Unit 5: Relations and functions
 
Day 028 Lesson 01 The coordinate axes, reflections, and translations
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Day 029 Lesson 02 Relations: domain and range
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Day 030 Lesson 03 Functions: function notation
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Day 031 Lesson 04 More practice with functions
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Day 032 Lesson 05 Function word problems
Constant rates of change
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Day 033 Lesson 06 Graphical representations of functions
Independent and dependent variables
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Day 034 Unit 5 cumulative review
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Day 035 Unit 5 review Review assignmnet Answers/Solutions
   
Day 036 Unit 5 test    
Unit 6: Graphing linear functions
 
Day 037 Lesson 01 Linear function definition
Plotting points and verifying with a graphing calculator
  Lesson/Assignment 6-01 Answers/Solutions Video Calculator Appendix D
   
Day 038 Lesson 02 Slope
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Day 039 Lesson 03 Graphing a line given a point and a slope
Slope-intercept form of a linear function
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Day 040 Lesson 04 Converting linear functions to y = mx + b form
Verifying solutions to linear equations
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Day 041 Lesson 05 Finding function rules given points in a chart
Special cases of linear functions (vert., horiz., b = 0)
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Day 042 Lesson 06 Putting it all together: intrepreting linear graphs
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Day 043 Lesson 07 Comparing linear graphs using a graphing calculator
Evaluating linear functions with a calculator
  Lesson/Assignment 6-07 Answers/Solutions Video Calculator Appendix E
Calculator Appendix F
   
Day 044 Unit 6 cumulative review
  Cumulative review assignmnet Answers/Solutions
   
Day 045 Unit 6 review Review assignmnet Answers/Solutions
   
Day 046 Unit 6 test    
Unit 7: More on writing linear functions
 
Day 047 Lesson 01 Writing the equation of a line given the slope and one other piece of information
  Lesson/Assignment 7-01 Answers/Solutions Video  
   
Day 048 Lesson 02 Writing the equation of a line given two points
Writing the equations of horizontal & vertical lines
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Day 049 Lesson 03 Perpendicular and parallel lines
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  Enrichment Topic C (Two dimensional inequalities)  
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Day 050 Lesson 04 Linear function word problems
Calculator tables
  Lesson/Assignment 7-04 Answers/Solutions Video Calculator Appendix G
   
Day 051 Unit 7 cumulative review
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Day 052 Unit 7 review Review assignmnet Answers/Solutions
   
Day 053 Unit 7 test    
Unit 8: Lines of best-fit, correlation
Interpreting data
 
Day 054 Lesson 01 Manual scatter plots, correlation
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Day 055 Lesson 02 Scatter plots and linear regression on a graphing calculator
  Lesson/Assignment 8-02 Answers/Solutions Video Calculator Appendix H
Calculator Appendix I
   
Day 056 Lesson 03 Intrepretation of linear data using a graphing calculator
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  Enrichment Topic I (Statistics)
  Lesson/Assignment ET-I Answers/Solutions   Calculator Appendix P
   
Day 057 Unit 8 cumulative review
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Day 058 Unit 8 review Review assignmnet Answers/Solutions
   
Day 059 Unit 8 test    
Unit 9: Systems of linear equations
 
Day 060 Lesson 01 The meaning of the solution to a system of linear equations
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Day 061 Lesson 02 Solving two linear equations by graphing
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Day 062 Lesson 03 Solving two linear equations by substitution
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Day 063 Lesson 04 Solving two linear equations by elimination
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Day 061 Lesson 05 Graphing calculator solutions of linear systems
  Lesson/Assignment 9-05 Answers/Solutions Video Calculator Appendix C
   
Day 062 Lesson 06 Solving for two variables in word problems
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Day 063 Unit 9 cumulative review
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Day 064 Unit 9 review Review assignmnet Answers/Solutions
   
Day 065 Unit 9 test    
Unit 10: Direct and inverse variation
 
Day 066 Lesson 01 Direct variation
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Day 067 Lesson 02 Indirect (inverse) variation
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  Enrichment Topic D (Combining direct and indirect variations)  
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Day 068 Unit 10 test    
Sem 1: Semester summary
 
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First semester comprehensive test review
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Day 073 First semester comprehensive test
     
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