High School Course/Curriculum Offering
#4250AP AP Calculus
Course Fee:The purpose of this course is to provide a basic education in general calculus principles comparable to that found at the first-year college level. The student will be well prepared for college level calculus and can use this knowledge as a foundation for further mathematical studies. It is designed for the student who desires to further study math at the college level. Calculus focuses its study on limits and their properties, various methods of differentiation and their applications, and methods of integration and their applications. Students will also work with important classes of functions such as logarithmic, exponential, and trigonometric functions. Students will encounter maximum/minimum problems, related rates problems, Reimann sums, volumes and surface areas of rotation problems. Students will be well prepared to take the AP Calculus AB examination.
Pre-Requisites: grade of C or better in Pre-Calculus or Instructor’s Approval
Co-Requisites: A graphing calculator such as a TI-83 plus, TI-83 plus silver, TI-84 plus or TI-84 plus silver is required for this course.
Textbooks: Calculus of a Single Variable, 6th ed. Larson, Hostetler, Edwards, 1998
#4910 Consumer Math
Course Fee:This course starts out covering basic math skills such as decimals, percents, fractions, rounding, and simple equations. The course will then open the world of personal finance covering such topics as budgeting and recordkeeping, gross and net income, checking and savings accounts, credit cards, loans, housing and vehicle costs, insurance, and investments.
A scientific calculator is required for this course.
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#5360P Geometry
Course Fee:This course explores postulates and theorems of plane and solid geometry, parallel and perpendicular lines, polygons and congruent and similar triangles, constructions, angles of polygons and surface area. This course covers special right-triangle relationships, trigonometric ratios, circles, conditional statements and writing two-column and indirect proofs. Students calculate volume of prisms, pyramids, cylinders and cones and learn about symmetry, rotations and translations.
Pre-Requisites: Prerequisite: grade of C- or better in Algebra I
Co-Requisites: A scientific calculator
Textbooks: Geometry, California edition. Glencoe, 2005
#6890P Pre-Calculus
Course Fee:This course prepares students to take AP Calculus and covers all major topics in trigonometry, including standard properties of trigonometric functions, inverse trigonometric functions, radians, law of sines and cosines, double – and half – angle formulas, identities, polar coordinates and polar equations. Pre-Calculus reviews Algebra II topics such as functions, graphs and their applications. Students work with important classes of functions such as logarithmic, exponential, in addition to trigonometric functions. The course then advances to topics such as vectors, sequences and series, and ends with an introduction to Calculus.
Pre-Requisites: grade of C or better in Algebra II or Instructor’s Approval
Co-Requisites: A graphing calculator such as a TI-83 plus, TI-83 plus silver, TI-84 plus or TI-84 plus silver is required for this course.
Textbooks: Advanced Mathimatics - Precalculus with Discrete Mathimatics and Data Analysis, Brown, 2000