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Book 2 Contents — Activity Alignment

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1. Buyer Beware
   • Phase One: Rates
     • Unit Prices, Price Graphs
   • Phase Two: Ratio and Proportion
     • Ratios, Equivalent Ratios
   • Phase Three: Percents
     • Percent of a Number, Pie Chart, Discounts, Budgets
2. Chance Encounters
   • Phase One: Games of Chance and Probability
     • Probability, Frequency Graphs, Theoretical Probability, Experimental Probability
   • Phase Two: Spinner Games and Probability
     • Pie Chart, Percents
   • Phase Three: Fair and Unfair Games
     • Probability, Outcome Grids
   • Phase Four: Real-World Simulations
     • Frequency Graphs, Simulations
3. Making Mathematical Arguments
   • Phase One: Signs, Statements and Counterexamples
     • Adding and Subtracting Integers, Counterexamples, Equations, Integer Multiplication and Division
   • Phase Two: Roots, Rules and Arguments
     • Perfect Squares, Square Roots, Absolute Value, Cube Roots, Patterns
   • Phase Three: Primes, Patterns and Generalizations
     • Factors, Primes, Mathematical Arguments
4. From the Ground Up
   • Phase One: Floor Plans, Site Plans and Walls
     • Scale Drawings, Proportions, Perimeter, Area Integers
   • Phase Two: Roofs, Area and Cost
     • Polyhedrons, Area, Unit Cost
   • Phase Three: Budgeting and Building
     • Polygons, Percents
5. The Language of Algebra
   • Phase One: Writing Equations and Inequalities
     • Expressions, Equations, Variables, Inequality, Tables
   • Phase Two: Creating Graphs of Equations
     • Coordinate Plane, Ordered Pairs, Equations
   • Phase Three: Finding Solutions of Equations
     • Solutions of an Equation, Inequalities, Equations
6. Getting Down to Business
   • Phase One: Business Simulation
     • Income, Expenses, Profit, Price
   • Phase Two: Spreadsheets
     • Spreadsheets, Formulas
   • Phase Three: Spreadsheets and Graphs
     • Scatter Plots
   • Phase Four: A Case Study of North Mall Cinema
     • Income, Expenses, Profit
7. Getting In Shape
   • Phase One: Triangles
     • Angles, Properties of Triangles, Line of Symmetry, Tessellations
   • Phase Two: Polygons
     • Polygons, Properities of Polygons
   • Phase Three: Circles
     • Parts of a Circle, Properities of A Circle, Area of Polygons, Area of Circles