New Teachers Times
04/06/2009
What Topics are Most Important?
Mr. Alarcon provided me with a great link to a "crosswalk" documents that gives a nice breakdown of what we need to cover for Integrated Algebra this year and any of the differences from last year. Jeffrey Yanez mentioned that he has found the past regents exams very useful because he can look through them and get an idea of what is always covered and what is not covered very often. He also provided me with a link to this information. Both of these resources will prove very useful during my compilation of regents review resources. Another contributor, Young Soc 139, agrees with all this but of course reminds us that anything could be covered at any time and just to be careful not to omit something because it has not yet been covered. Definitely some good advice to keep in mind. I responded and thanked for the advice and also told them that I have been checking out the standards a lot more closely lately to see what can be omitted from my textbook and found that only radical expressions without variables in the radicand will be covered. Also only addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of these types of expressions must be known. Definitely cuts down the amount of chapter 11 from the pearson textbook that needs to be covered. Mentioned that I have to go back and reteach only those topics from chapter 11 because my students bombed the test... I think it is definitely because I put too much information on the test and half of it is not required by the standards. I have been trying to hold my students to the "higher" standard but this time I think it was just too much for them in too little time. I'm asked for any tricks or advice for what they will be using or what has worked for them during the radical expressions topics.
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