Pathways to Math Literacy ISE

Unit 1: NUMERIC DATA: VISUALIZE AND ORGANIZE
Lesson 1-1 Where Does the Time Go? (Percentages, Pie Charts, and Bar Graphs)
Lesson 1-2 Do You Have Anything To Add? (Using Addition and Subtraction Skills) 
Lesson 1-3 It’s About Accumulation (Using Multiplication and Division Skills) 
Lesson 1-4 Avoiding an Empty Wallet (Using Exponents and Order of Operations) 
Lesson 1-5 A Coordinated Effort (The Basics of Graphing) 
Lesson 1-6 What are the Chances? (Basic Probability) 
Lesson 1-7 Debt: Bad. Chocolate: Good (Using Scientific Notation) 
Lesson 1-8 What’s Your Type? (Organizing Information with Venn Diagrams) 
Lesson 1-9 News in the Data Age (Gathering and Organizing Data)


Unit 2: MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL 
Lesson 2-1 Did You Pass the Test? (Using Measures of Average) 
Lesson 2-2 Ins and Outs (Inputs, Outputs, and Interpreting Expressions) 
Lesson 2-3 From Another Dimension (Working with Units and Formulas) 
Lesson 2-4 It Works Like Magic (Dimensional Analysis) 
Lesson 2-5 It’s All Relative (Interpreting Relative Change/Relative Error) 
Lesson 2-6 Is that Normal? (Standard Deviation and Normal Distributions) 
Lesson 2-7 Meeting Expectations (Expected Value and Weighted Grades)


Unit 3: THINKING LINEARLY 
Lesson 3-1 Miles Per Hour! (Slope as a Rate of Change)
Lesson 3-2 All Things Being Equal (Solving Equations) 
Lesson 3-3 All Quantities Are Not Created Equal (Solving Inequalities) 
Lesson 3-4 What’s Your Problem? (Solving Problems Numerically and Algebraically)
Lesson 3-5 Big Mac Exchange Rates (Direct Variation and Proportions) 
Lesson 3-6 The Effects of Alcohol (Slope-Intercept Form and Linear Modeling) 
Lesson 3-7 Party Planning (Point-Slope Form and Linear Modeling) 
Lesson 3-8 The Great Tech Battle (Linear Relationships and Lines of Best Fit) 
Lesson 3-9 All Systems Go (Solving Problems with Systems of Equations)


Unit 4: LIVING IN A NONLINEAR WORLD 
Lesson 4-1 Oh Yeah? Prove It! (Inductive and Deductive Reasoning) 
Lesson 4-2 A Road Map to Success (The Pythagorean Theorem and Distance) 
Lesson 4-3 The Error of Your Ways (Polling and Margin of Error) 
Lesson 4-4 Where’s My Jetpack? (Inverse vs. Direct Variation) 
Lesson 4-5 Sit Back and Watch Your Money Grow (Exponential Growth Equations) 
Lesson 4-6 Follow the Bouncing Golf Ball (Exponential Curve Fitting)
Lesson 4-7 Irate Ducks (Graphs of Quadratic Equations) 
Lesson 4-8 Minding Your Business (Add, Subtract, and Multiply Expressions) 
Lesson 4-9 The F Word (Factoring) 
Lesson 4-10Going. . . Going. . . GONE! (The Quadratic Formula and Max/Min)
Lesson 4-11 Down the Drain (Quadratic Curve Fitting)

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