Math B Overview

Unit 1
Students will:

• Organize and display data, with or without technology, using a variety of displays, including box and whisker pots, back-to-back step and leaf plots, and scatter plots.
• Use box an whisker plots to compare two sets of data
• Analyze and interpret data in a variety of displays such as box and whisker plots, back-to-back stem and leaf plots, and scatter plots
• Use the measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) to compare two sets of data
• Evaluate the validity of claims based on analysis of data
• Identify data that represent sampling errors and explain why a sample might be biased.

Unit 2A
Students will:

• Recognize and appropriately use exponential, scientific, and calculator notation
• Describe the magnitude of numbers

Unit 2B
Students will:

• Apply formulas and evaluate algebraic expressions when given variable values
• Simplify expressions, using the order of operations on expressions involving the four operations, exponents, and parentheses
• Simplify expressions by applying the commutative, associative, and distributive properties and justify
• Use variables and appropriate operations to write expressions
• Model, identify, and solve 2 step linear equations and inequalities using concrete and informal methods
• Solve one and two step linear equations and inequalities in one variable

Unit 2C

Students will:

• model and explain absolute value of rational numbers
• model and explain addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of integers