CAMPBELL HIGH SCHOOL ' S
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Course Name: Advanced Algebra
Available to: 10th and 11th grade
Type of Course: Core Course
Prerequisites: Geometry( YL)( 70 %- 84 %), Geometry( semester)(< 85 %), OR H. Geometry(< 75 %)
Description: This is the third course in a sequence of three high school courses designed to ensure career and college readiness. Students will learn how to use matrices and linear programming to represent data and to solve contextually relevant problems. Students will strengthen their geometric and spatial reasoning skills as they learn how to solve trigonometric equations using the unit circle. In previous courses, students studied how to use linear and quadratic functions to model real-life phenomena. Students will further develop their functional and graphical reasoning as they explore and analyze structures and patterns for exponential, logarithmic, radical, polynomial, rational expressions, equations, and functions to further understand the world around them.
Course Name: Honors Advanced Algebra Type of Course: Core Course Available to: 10th and 11th grade Prerequisites: Geometry( 85 %+) OR H. Geometry( 75 %+)
Description: This is an accelerated college prep course that covers all of the standards included in the onlevel Advanced Algebra course with a few additional standards and explores the concepts at a deeper level. This course is designed to prepare students for Advanced Placement mathematics courses. Students earn an additional 0.5 quality point towards their GPA for this course.
Course Name: Precalculus
Available to: 10th- 12th grade
Type of Course: Core Course
Prerequisites: Advanced Algebra( YL)( 80 %+), OR Advanced Algebra( 75 %- 89 %) OR H. Advanced Algebra( 74 %- 85 %)
Description: This course is a fourth math credit option that provides students with the opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of concepts in Algebra that are critical to the study of Calculus as well as an understanding of trigonometry and its applications. The course includes the study and analysis of piecewise and rational functions; limits and continuity as related to piecewise and rational functions; sequences and series with the incorporation of convergence and divergence; conic sections as implicitly defined curves; the six trigonometric functions and their inverses; applications of trigonometry such as modeling periodic phenomena, modeling with vectors and parametric equations, solving oblique triangles in contextual situations, graphing in the Polar Plane; solutions of trigonometric equations in a variety of contexts; and the manipulation and application of trigonometric identities.
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