This Course develops higher-order thinking skills through meaningful math conversations that occur every day in the classroom. Students learn to express their understanding through continual review and daily practice of several mathematical concepts that foster their long-term retention. The Course also maintains and applies properties of numbers and operations, ratio and proportional reasoning, problem-solving strategies, and more. Additionally, the Course also introduces and develops algebra topics such as graph sequences, linear inequalities, solving systems of linear equations, quadratic equations, etc. Students' skills and wide variety of concepts are evaluated through built-in, frequent cumulative assessments.