Visualizing Algebra

Throughout this course, we will use algebra to quantify and describe the world around us. Have you ever wondered how many songs can fit onto your flash drive? By the end of the course, you’ll have stronger skills for modeling problems, analyzing patterns, and using algebra to arrive at conclusions.

Why Take This Course?

Understand and develop the language, models, and tools for math reasoning.

Reason with numbers and units to solve problems.

Identify, analyze, extend, and create patterns and functions.

Make connections about relations and functions through multiple representations: graphs, charts, tables, equations.

Apply mathematical reasoning and logic to solve equations and write equivalent forms.

Unit 1 - Review of Foundations

Unit 2 - Equations and Inequalities

Unit 3 - Graphs of Linear Equations

Unit 4 - Systems of Equations

Unit 5 - Exponents and Polynomials

Unit 6 - Factoring

Unit 7 - Rational Expressions

Unit 8 - Rational Exponents and Radicals

Unit 9 - Solving Quadratic Equations

Unit 10 - Quadratic Equations and Applications

Unit 11 - Conic Sections

Unit 12 - Inverses, Exponentials, and Logarithms