Learning Outcomes:

1. Utilize the visual of a Venn diagram to help students conceptualize the number system.

2. Investigate the symmetry of the number line and the use of opposites through a real-world context of tug-of-war.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Practice representing real-world situations as rational numbers, and then order the values from least to greatest.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Represent distance for real-world situations involving jumping fish and meeting friends at a fishpond.

2. Understand absolute value on a number line.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Compare absolute values using symbols.

2. Interpret the use of absolute value through real-world situations involving money and temperature.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Use a variable in a mathematical expression to communicate multiple pieces of data.

2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

3. Look for and make use of structure.

4. Define the elements of algebraic expressions such as term, like terms, constants, and coefficients.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Define the elements of algebraic expressions such as term, like terms, constants, and coefficients.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Use a life-size number line to act out numeric and algebraic expressions.

2. Write verbal expressions that represent numeric expressions and algebraic expressions that represent real-world scenarios.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Review the basic order of operations.

2. Simplify numeric expressions that contain exponents.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Use substitution to evaluate algebraic expressions related to real-world situations.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Evaluate expressions involving exponents and parentheses.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Explore whether two expressions are equivalent using a balance scale as a concrete model.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Use a pan balance to model and solve algebraic equations.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Explore signs that indicate a restriction such as a speed limit, a sale markdown, a weight limit, or a capacity limit.

2. Analyze these scenarios and determine how they differ from equation scenarios.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Use a number line to represent inequalities.