Schedule: St Louis

◊ This is a tentative schedule, based on my best estimate of how long things take. Topics may move or vanish.

◊ Because of the cumulative nature of some of the work, it is important to attend everything.

◊ We will start on time every day.

◊ Mini-breakfast: 8:00 a.m. School day: 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Morning:

Polyomino Perimeter: a discovery lesson connected to many algebra topics

Welcome and Introductions

Stairs and Slope: geoboard, electronic graphing

Afternoon:

Interpreting Graphs: "real world" connections of slope, intercept, linear vs. non-linear cases

Lab Gear 1: introduction to algebra manipulatives, the area model; perimeter, combining like terms

Morning:

Pattern Block Trains: discovery lesson, geometric context for slope-intercept

Lab Gear 2: factoring, identities

Afternoon:

Lab Gear 3: equations, arithmetic, functions

Lab Gear 4: algebraic fractions, completing the square

Morning:

The McNuggets problem: a rich number-based problem

Function Diagrams: parallel axes representation of functions, focus on linear functions

Afternoon:

Lab Gear 5: advanced topics, connections to graphing, comprehensive review

Wrap-up and closing: evaluation, reflection, implementation