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Subject: Mathematics Grade Level: 8th Unit Title: Algebra Timeframe Needed for Completion: 12 weeks Grading Period: 2nd Nine Weeks, 3rd Nine weeks Big Idea/Theme: What’s your Function? Understandings: Ratio, proportion, percent Proportionality and similarity (including dilations) Functions and Relations Linear or Nonlinear Slope Intercepts Linear Equations Linear Inequalities Essential Questions: How do you use patterns to help you make decisions? How can you use Algebra outside of class? How has equality or inequality shaped your life? Equality or inequality? Explain. What distinguishes one line from another? How can you determine if things that look different are actually the same? How could you determine how tall a person is from a picture without a measuring device? What is important about knowing objects are similar? How would sports be different if there were no ratios, proportions and percents? Guiding Questions: What is the difference between a function and a relation? Are all functions relations? Are all relations functions? How can you determine when a relation is not a function? What are the different ways you can model/represent a function or relation? What are the advantages/disadvantages to looking at a table as opposed to the graphic representation? What are the advantages/disadvantages to looking at a graph as opposed to the algebraic representation? Is there any representation that is more beneficial than the others? (verbal, tabular, graphic and algebraic) Explain. Explain how you can create the other three representations given one representation to start with. What is the difference between linear and nonlinear? How can you determine if a situation represents a linear or nonlinear relation? What is slope? How can slope be represented? Is it possible to have no slope? Is zero slope and no slope the same? Is undefined slope and no slope the same? How can you determine when lines have the same slope? How can you determine which line is s