Unit 4 Planning Guide: Teaching Functions, Relations, & Domain and Range in Algebra 1

Being asked to identify the domain and range of a function can often make even older and more experienced Algebra students fumble, but we’re in luck! We were so intentional in choosing the content that was included in our first three units of the year, that this unit will come together with a little smattering of everything that came before.

The functions, relations, domain & range unit will feel like the natural next step continuing off what your students have already learned, allowing for a fumble-free, stress-free unit.

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Unit 3 Planning Guide: Teaching Solving Multi-Step Inequalities in Algebra 1

Solving inequalities is a skill in Algebra 1 that is useful on its own, but it is much more powerful as a connecting unit. The solving multi-step inequalities unit both serves to re-emphasize everything that was learned throughout the solving multi-step equations unit and also sets students up to be successful and stress-free when learning how to identify the domain and range of functions in subsequent units.

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Unit 2 Planning Guide: Teaching Solving Multi-Step Equations in Algebra 1

Solving equations is an essential Algebra 1 skill that comes back in so many ways throughout the year, from rearranging equations to slope-intercept form before graphing a line, to solving systems of equations and even solving quadratic equations.

Solving multi-step equations is at the heart of what we ask Algebra 1 students to do – it is certainly a Top 5 unit if we were ranking them all by importance.

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