Instructional time should focus on three critical areas:

Five critical areas:

• Students develop fluency writing, interpreting, analyzing, and translating between various forms of linear equations and inequalities.
• Students build on and extend their knowledge of exponents to explore exponential functions to compare and contrast to linear functions.  They will also interpret arithmetic and geometric sequences.
• Students analyze data and assess how a model fits data with the use of regression, residual analysis and technology.
• Students will strengthen their ability to see structure in and create quadratic and exponential expressions.
• Students will explore quadratic functions by interpreting various forms of quadratic expressions, and expand their knowledge into those functions that are piece-wise defined.