This advanced course emphasizes close observation and analysis, evidence-based writing, higher-order questioning, and academic discourse while strengthening students’ mathematical understanding. Students will develop proficiency with operations involving rational numbers and exponents as they work with expressions and complex linear equations. Instruction focuses on applying proportional relationships in functions and slope calculations, solving scale drawing problems, and analyzing two- and three-dimensional figures to determine area, surface area, and volume, including applications of the Pythagorean Theorem. Students will also analyze data representations to draw inferences about populations based on sample data.