{"id":660,"date":"2021-07-11T13:05:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T18:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/?p=660"},"modified":"2024-11-02T15:02:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T20:02:07","slug":"pre-algebra-notes-version-0-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/11\/pre-algebra-notes-version-0-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Algebra Notes version 0.1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working on a comprehensive set of notes for Pre-Algebra for over a year now. While I wouldn&#8217;t call them perfect, I&#8217;ve <em>finally<\/em> got the notes into a state that I&#8217;m happy to share with the rest of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/balance-700x337.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/balance-700x337.png 700w, https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/balance-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/balance-768x369.png 768w, https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/balance.png 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had an initial draft version of these notes last August, but they had many problem that I&#8217;ve had to work on. The biggest issue was that I hadn&#8217;t actually taught through a Pre-Algebra course before. Covid, changing so many things like it has, meant that I couldn&#8217;t use printed notes as I&#8217;d hoped at the start of the school year, but as the year progressed and our understanding of teaching in a pandemic developed, I was able to start incorporating printed notes at times. Following the end of the school year, I went through the entire course in detail, using my students&#8217; experiences over the year to refine the notes and even expanded certain topics that need more time to develop. The result of that review is what I&#8217;m sharing here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pre-Algebra Notes Downloads (v. 0.1)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/download\/653\/?version=0-1\">Pre-Algebra Notes<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/download\/656\/?version=0-1\">Pre-Algebra Notes Answer Key<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/exponentchart-700x287.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/exponentchart-700x287.png 700w, https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/exponentchart-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/exponentchart-768x315.png 768w, https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/exponentchart.png 975w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I plan to keep improving these notes, as well as produce other material to support them. I have a first draft of practice exercises for the first three units, though those still need much more work before I&#8217;m ready share. Eventually, I&#8217;d like to create a catalog of resources and activities, aligned to each section of the notes, that would give any Pre-Algebra teachers (including myself) a huge leg-up in developing their own curricula, but that dream is still a long way off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/backtrack-700x372.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/backtrack-700x372.png 700w, https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/backtrack-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/backtrack-768x408.png 768w, https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/backtrack.png 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A note of caution that I&#8217;ve written these notes with the Oklahoma Academic Standards in mind. (Standards alignment document coming soon, hopefully.) While I&#8217;d love for as many teachers as possible to use these notes, be aware that I haven&#8217;t referred to Common Core or whatever other standards you might be using at all, so there may be some topics you expect that are missing or incomplete. I&#8217;d love to fill in those gaps for other states and countries one day, but no promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/distance-700x450.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/distance-700x450.png 700w, https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/distance-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/distance-768x493.png 768w, https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/distance.png 967w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on a comprehensive set of notes for Pre-Algebra for over a year now. While I wouldn&#8217;t call them perfect, I&#8217;ve finally got the notes into a state that I&#8217;m happy to share with the rest of the world. I had an initial draft version of these notes last August, but they had &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/11\/pre-algebra-notes-version-0-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pre-Algebra Notes version 0.1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,39],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-notes","tag-pre-algebra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}