General Rubric Skittles: Taste the Rainbow! Topics: combinations Loci Treasure Hunt Topics: loci and transformations

Student Logic Proofs (no longer in the curriculum)

Topics: formal logic laws

Life Expectancy in Western Countries

Topics: linear regression, scatter plots, rate of change, histograms

Trends in U.S. Population

Topics: Constructing charts, interpreting data, predicting based on patterns

Compound Interest and the National Debt

Topics: Applying signed numbers, measuring areas, comparing areas using ratios, constructing a scale drawing

Relationship between Planet Temperature and Distance from the Sun

Topics: Constructing a scatter plot, describing relationships between data, rate of change, exceptions to patterns

Life Expectancy Based on Year of Birth

Topics: Constructing a scatter plot, drawing a line of best fit, writing an equation for a graphed line, making a prediction using a graph or equation

Who Won?: Writing a Sports Article

Topics: Interpreting linear graphs, rate of change, slope, linear inequalities

Will women ever run as fast as men?

Topics: systems of equations, graphing lines of best fit, writing equations of graphed lines, determine the meaning of slope, y-intercept, and x-intercept in the context of the data, solving systems of linear equations graphically or algebraically, linear models

Flatland: A Romance in Two Dimensions

Topics: geometry vocabulary, dimensional concepts, and comparison of types of polygons

Do cells divide or do they multiply?

Topics: graphing linear and exponential functions, comparison of similarities and differences of graphs, including y-intercept and rate of change.

Art, Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Mean

Topics: ratios, decimal approximation of binomial radicals, scale drawings, Fibonacci sequence

A Braking Car: How Far Does It Travel?

Topics: polynomial operations, graphing a parabola, determining specific values from a model, analyzing the appropriateness of the model, hypothesizing about changes to a model

Can you determine p experimentally?

Topics: geometric probability, ratios, areas of squares and circles, random numbers, comparison of theoretical and experimental values

Levers

Topics: linear regression