Jamaica Plain Community Centers
ADULT LEARNING PROGRAM
ALP Landing Page for: HiSET MATH
Instructor: Mary Jones
Email: maryjones@jpadulted.org
Meeting Times:
T/TH 6-8:30 PM EST
Office Hours: By appointment:
MW 12-2 PM (EST) T/Th 8:30-9:00 (EST)
Book Appointment by this link: https://calendar.app.google/GB4Z4knZKk5DMTRe9
Use Zoom class link for meeting
Phone: (417) 413-4609
Class Notes:
Welcome to HiSET Math! Please feel free to contact
me if you need help or are unable to come to class. Don’t forget to log in to your computer and have pencil/paper with you!
Course Syllabus:
Weeks 1 – 4 (Unit 1) Review
Intro to Zoom and Google Classroom (Week 1)
FPT6 Quiz (Week 1)
Addition and Subtraction (Week 1)
Multiplication and Division (Week 2)
Multiplication Tables Review (Week 2)
Decimal Place Value (Week 3)
Rounding (Week 3)
Review/Word and HiSET Problems/Unit 1 Test (Week 4)
Unit Outcome: Making sure that basic math skills are good
Weeks 5 – 9 (Unit 2) Fractions
Fractions/Reducing Fractions (Week 5 and 6)
Adding and Subtracting Like Fractions (Week 7)
Multiplying and Dividing Fractions (Week 8)
Review/Word and HiSET Problems/Unit 2 Test (Week 9)
Unit Outcome: Good understanding of fractions
Weeks 10 – 14 (Unit 3) Percents
Converting Fractions to Decimals/Converting Decimals to Fractions/Decimals to Percent (Week 10)
Finding Part/Finding Whole (Week 11)
Box Method (Week 12)
Percent Change (Week 13)
Review/Word and HiSET Problems/Unit 3 Test (Week 14)
Unit Outcome: Learning Percents
Weeks 15 – 20 (Unit 4) Intro to Algebra
Scientific Notation and Absolute Value (Week 15)
Square and Cube Roots (Week 16)
Adding and Subtracting Integers (Week 17)
Multiplying and Dividing Integers (Week 18)
Order of Operations/FPT 7 Quiz (Week 19)
Review/Word and HiSET Problems/Unit 4 Test (Week 20)
Unit Outcome: Learning Intro to Algebra
Weeks 21 – 24 (Unit 5) Algebra
FTP8 Quiz Week 21
One-step equations (Adding and Subtracting) Week 21
One-step equations (Multiplying and Dividing) Week 21
Two-step equations Week 22 and 23
Mixed operations equations/Review HiSET Problems/Unit 5 Test (Week 24)
Weeks 25 – 26 (Unit 6) Word Problems
Word and Table Problems and corresponding HiSET Test Questions (Week 25)
Age and Distance Problems and corresponding HiSET Test Questions/Unit 6 Test (Week 26)
Unit Outcome: Learning how to do HiSET Word Problems
Weeks 27 and 31(Unit 7) Graphs
X and Y Coordinates (Week 27)
Line and Bar Graphs/Corresponding HiSET Test Questions (Week 28)
Charts and Table Graphs/Corresponding HiSET Test Questions/Unit 7 Test (Week 29)
Unit Outcome: Learning Graphs and Charts/Practice HiSET Word Problems
Weeks 32 – 35 (Unit 8) Geometry/HiSET Review
Pythagorean theorem (Week 32)
Perimeter/Area of a Circle (Week 33)
Word and HiSET Problems/Review/Unit Test 5 (Week 32-35)
Unit Outcome: Basic geometry knowledge and definitions/HiSET Review of Problems on test
Course Rubric:
