You have learned SO much this year and now it is time to start to prepare for finals. This project will help you create a study guide to get you and your classmates ready for it. I would also recommend keeping this project to refer to while you take Algebra 2 next year.

 

I would like to you create a Survival Guide, organized by chapters. In each chapter organize it by the topic. If you want to combine two sections to be one topic, that will help you condense the information you are summarizing.

 

Think about writing this in a way that you could give this to an incoming 8th grader and they could understand it. Basically do not assume that we know anything beyond pre-algebra. You should be defining words, providing formulas, drawing pictures to help explain things, and giving any facts about prior knowledge we need to know to do the problems.

 

While you want to explain everything fully, you also want to summarize it so it’s not too long and boring. If there’s a lot of prior knowledge you need to know to do something, maybe suggest referring to a specific chapter and section. For example you might be graphing something and say, “refer to 3.3 to recall more about the meaning of slope that was previously explained.”

 

You may present this information in any way. I would like to be able to share your Survival Guide with your classmates for them to use to study, so if you could do it digitally that would be helpful. If you do anything handwritten, I can scan it and create a PDF for you to make it digital -- just let me know.

 

If you need help organizing your Survival Guide, think about the organization of the textbook. You do not need to organize it this way, but a table of contents might be helpful along with a formula sheet for the whole year or glossary with definitions.

A great example is the book “Everything You Need to Ace Math in One Big Fat Notebook” from Workman Publishing by Ouida Newton. It’s free to download off of Amazon right now and I highly recommend downloading it!